Clear Cover Arts

[Besli]

Hi all, this is a thread about original artwork of video game restoration.

You can post original (low resolution) arts as welll as enhanced (high resolution) arts.

You can also post original covers as well as the cleaned versions of them.

 

On 8/11/2022 at 5:35 PM, kalgon said:

Does somebody know of similar artwork restoration initiatives but for non LucasArts games like Prince of Persia, Sierra classics, Doom, Duke Nukem, etc. ?

 

Yes, i do.

 

HD Doom Art - Doom General - Doomworld

 

HiRes Duke Nukem Logo's and Arts - Duke4.net Forums

 

Edited November 14, 2023 by Besli

[Besli]

On 9/13/2022 at 10:17 PM, Nano said:

 

This is absolutely wonderful !!! It's been barely a week since I posted some of these SSI game artworks on Twitter wondering how to find them in better quality! Thank you 10000 times !!! And please don't stop!!

 

And maybe one of you has this artwork in good quality? I would be very grateful ❤️

 

 

There was a cleaned version on SteamGriddb, posted by Retro-Man:

 

 

Original clean art could be found in this book:

https://www.bitmapbooks.com/products/the-art-of-the-box

Edited November 5, 2023 by Besli

[bennywhitebread]

On 11/5/2023 at 11:00 AM, Besli said:

 

There was a cleaned version on SteamGriddb, posted by Retro-Man:

 

 

Original clean art could be found in this book:

https://www.bitmapbooks.com/products/the-art-of-the-box

I have quickly upscaled it by 4x if needed

https://ibb.co/7Vx2JTD

 

Edited November 8, 2023 by bennywhitebread
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[Besli]

On 9/11/2022 at 5:27 AM, GFX said:

I have tried my hand at making a few for myself though they are not great since I rely on whatever I find over the internet which is not that good, so far I made the three Alone in the Dark and Kyrandia 3 but they are far from perfect (though they look great on print ;P).

I also recently made a small amount of posters from some of the old SSI and D&D games I found the art of at a really nice quality so I made them for the Eye of the Beholder 1-3 games, Al-Qadim, Pool of Radiance and 2 for Ravenloft and I really like how they came out.

I mostly wanted to display the original art and not the cropped versions used on some of the covers since I loved the art but those covers were kind of ugly, but I made a frame to simulate the feel of the original box a bit with the titles (some with a different font) and I added the much needed artist credits.

You can find them here if you are interested in those:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Sq-jQPewL6O9f9q2IeccjkpPuTulB4Px?usp=sharing

This is how they look if you don't want to browse the link.

 

Hey GFX, your Heretic art is very good! but it still could need a little rework on the top of the cape.

 

 

Best sources for the Heretic logo:

 

 

Edited November 11, 2023 by Besli

[Besli]

I found a nice version of the El Capitan Trueno art, but it's very lowres: 

 

Source: El Capitán Trueno [Amstrad ESP]

 

Hires Cover scan:

Source: CPCRULEZ > AMSTRAD CPC > GAMESLIST > EL CAPITAN TRUENO (c) DINAMIC

 

Poster:

 

 

Original from Internet, not really complete, and not detailed: 

 

Enhanced/Improved by Arikado:

Arikado1476 - SteamGridDB

Old (test)

New (final?)

 

 

[bennywhitebread]

Hi Besli, I guess it would be great to introduce the topics so users can undertstand what is it all about and what is the goal of the thread.

I understand it's a thread about original artwork of video game restoration right ?  I might have good ones too ! (I'm finishing Golden axe poster)

[Besli]

On 11/13/2023 at 1:41 PM, bennywhitebread said:

Hi Besli, I guess it would be great to introduce the topics so users can undertstand what is it all about and what is the goal of the thread.

I understand it's a thread about original artwork of video game restoration right ?  I might have good ones too ! (I'm finishing Golden axe poster)

 

Thanks, for the tip, updated the fist post.

Edited November 14, 2023 by Besli

[Besli]

@GFX I tried to edit it myself:

https://ibb.co/zPCGYmK

https://ibb.co/yfMrSSr

Edited February 11 by Besli