The NEW Official Arcade Stick Art Thread NO IMAGE QUOTING!

Sekisei Jiraiken

I tried to look for a sick ass ONI template but fail to see one so if anyone has any images of 1 I would like to see how it looks on a TE template. Thanks so much....

mmoomey

My deadpool TE art





Im playing with the mockup to see which button colors I want

jmannthepanda

New Thread, guess I'll re-post my oni/evil template here...

chuu

mmoomey, post: 5359370 wrote:

My deadpool TE art Im playing with the mockup to see which button colors I want

maybe...red?

Sekisei Jiraiken

I like it but I'm looking for just ONI but I'm gonna try to see if I can find some images of ONi by himself n posted up in here...

mmoomey

chuu, post: 5359530 wrote:

maybe...red?

Im likely going to do dual color. I couldnt decide between redbutton/black button border or black buttons and red border. or even combos of that

Parker HD

Hey Dv3 thanks for making this thread! Been feeling left out. Hori VX SA owners have artistic souls too! :p

So I just got into messing with PhotoStudio (not photoshop :(). I have been trying to come up with cool templates for my VX SA brethren and here are my first 2. Im making another right now that is real detailed, might be a bit before Im done cause I want it to look perfect before I lami-label that shiz.

Who Cares Bears


Summer Shotos

Phatty

My baby :]

KaboXx

wesker and d phoenix. phoenix temps needs some adjustments but ill get to them once my comp is up and running

Bertross

d3v, post: 5356761 wrote:

It's a sprite, it's supposed to look pixelated.

Speaking of which.

Can you link me the PSD i want to tweak it a little bit and see what you think. :D

d3v

Parker HD, post: 5359976 wrote:

Hey Dv3 thanks for making this thread! Been feeling left out. Hori VX SA owners have artistic souls too! :p

Souls? Didn't y'all sell those to the Devil or something?

Bertross, post: 5361115 wrote:

Can you link me the PSD i want to tweak it a little bit and see what you think. :D

I'll have to look for it. That said, event the .PNG shoudn't be that difficult to edit.

Bertross

nah i want to change a few elements and see what you reckon. Mainly the webbing.

EVAWINGZERO

necroticart, post: 5353056 wrote:

Thought I would repost these here since they use the combat stick layout.

MK 1 full panel TE by necroticart, on Flickr

Art Hobbies UMK TE Full Panel Template mk2 by necroticart, on Flickr

BTW if any of you play MK with the old style layout you might want to pick up the combat stick. I think you'll be surprised at how much easier it is to use.

Hey man, can you post the original Orange one without the Button Holes?

Thanks

d3v

Bertross, post: 5361170 wrote:

nah i want to change a few elements and see what you reckon. Mainly the webbing.

Webbing?

Bertross

the overlapped hexagons on the background.

d3v

Bertross, post: 5361228 wrote:

the overlapped hexagons on the background.

Oh, you meant the Megaman template. All this while I was thinking you wanted to work on the Morrigan sprite.

Sadly, it's a paid commission and I'm not at the liberty to hand out the .PSD for that.

Bertross

ah right no worries. :D

DonkeyBlonkey

Just me or does Arthong's Back Template for the TE stick not open with GIMP 2?

jdm714

Because CMYK.
GIMP does not.

DonkeyBlonkey

jdm714, post: 5361928 wrote:

Because CMYK.
GIMP does not.

Ahh soo only photoshop :(? Which I do not have or plan on buying :(

jdm714

I don't know why arthong put CMYK for the Template.
Maybe for his print settings, because he provides Print Service.

DonkeyBlonkey

jdm714, post: 5361954 wrote:

I don't know why arthong put CMYK for the Template.
Maybe for his print settings, because he provides Print Service.

So do I have to find someone to do it for me with photoshop. Do you think there are people who will do it for free of charge?

d3v

:D

http://www.mediafire.com/?5uj7c2s5qkbx2a1

Chavelo

d3v, post: 5362804 wrote:

:D

I would love to tap dat... buttons...

:3

d3v

Chavelo, post: 5362870 wrote:

I would love to tap dat... buttons...

It's "dem... buttons" my dear boy.

And speaking of tapping.

:p

http://www.mediafire.com/?ml6900l5ggl0yuh

Chavelo

d3v, post: 5362924 wrote:

It's "dem... buttons" my dear boy.

And speaking of tapping.

:p

Come on, guy. You know what I meant. I just had to correct myself there for a moment... :D

d3v

Chavelo, post: 5362944 wrote:

Come on, guy. You know what I meant. I just had to correct myself there for a moment... :D

Still, should have been "dat... dem buttons."

Kyle

d3v - if you'd like to sticky this in place of the link rebuild thread knock yourself out.

d3v

Kyle, post: 5362974 wrote:

d3v - if you'd like to sticky this in place of the link rebuild thread knock yourself out.

Thinking about it. But I'm pretty sure there are other threads that would deserve stickying over this.

EDIT: In case people haven't noticed, I updated my posts with the links to the PSD files for download/printing.

Parker HD

D3v you make some nice stuff! :D Makes my stuff look total noob sauce. If I make a request could you make me one would love my stick to look real clean, rather then like a photoshop wanna be made it haha

Zenbater

Any love for the TKD characters?

The "JAE_HOON" sucks, I know. It's just a start, not sure if I want the name in there at all . . .
And yes, the joystick IS his crotch. So?

Parker HD

Zenbater i might make the name a bit smaller and moved down and to the left a little

chuu

Zenbater, post: 5364406 wrote:

Any love for the TKD characters?

The "JAE_HOON" sucks, I know. It's just a start, not sure if I want the name in there at all . . .
And yes, the joystick IS his crotch. So?

must...resist...making...Asian...penis...jokes...

chaoticmicah

Lastscions just posted the akuma/oni artwork on deviantart and I had to make a template out of it!

For a .pdn(Paint.net) file or bigger version of the JPG file just pm me.

d3v

Zenbater, post: 5364406 wrote:

Any love for the TKD characters?

The "JAE_HOON" sucks, I know. It's just a start, not sure if I want the name in there at all . . .
And yes, the joystick IS his crotch. So?
http://i.imgur.com/j6oqY.jpg

Lol at where the stick is located.

Zeik56

So I've started working on some custom art for my new fightstick, but as I've never done this before I'm curious what the ideal resolution for your images so that you get a high quality print out of it? I know it needs to be pretty high, but how high exactly? I don't went to spend a bunch of time and money doing this and end up with some half-assed quality art.

Bertross

are these template made yourselves are these made by clipping out images and arranging them with a few PS effects?

Anyone doing full renders like me from scratch? im really interested in those if their are any guys. Ive been using PS for about 10+ years now but only recently have i been using the wacom tablet and it really takes it to the next level.

Does B15 do his own artwork? or does he get pay commission work?

Zeik56, post: 5364959 wrote:

So I've started working on some custom art for my new fightstick, but as I've never done this before I'm curious what the ideal resolution for your images so that you get a high quality print out of it? I know it needs to be pretty high, but how high exactly? I don't went to spend a bunch of time and money doing this and end up with some half-assed quality art.

300pdi ("per inch" not cm) is the ideal resolution, most places prefer CMYK renders but some laser printers will accept RGB renders because their rip prefers it for some bizarre reason. I did a large outdoor print job for work years ago and they wanted RGB :S

In photoshop RBG gives your only a screen representation of the artwork and RBG is illuminated and vibrant which is not a true refection of the printed work. Thus i work in CMYK. Alot of effects are blanked out in PS using CMYK because the more advanced effects are used for onscreen only in RGB mode.

You will find printed special effects will come out dull or a duller version on the RBG verison, in some cases depending on colour it will look mudy and washed out.

Zeik56

Bertross, post: 5365025 wrote:

300pdi ("per inch" not cm) is the ideal resolution, most places prefer CMYK renders but some laser printers will accept RGB renders because their rip prefers it for some bizarre reason. I did a large outdoor print job for work years ago and they wanted RGB :S

Perhaps I'm in way over my head here, but I don't really know what most of that means. >_>

d3v

Bertross, post: 5365025 wrote:

are these template made yourselves are these made by clipping out images and arranging them with a few PS effects?

Anyone doing full renders like me from scratch? im really interested in those if their are any guys. Ive been using PS for about 10+ years now but only recently have i been using the wacom tablet and it really takes it to the next level.

I rarely ever use my own, since it takes me forever and a day to actually finish my own shizz, let alone put it on a stick..

That said:

Bertross

i like that one much more than your other ones TBH D3V very nice. Chuu will flip out when he sees that one :p

Zeik56, post: 5365051 wrote:

Perhaps I'm in way over my head here, but I don't really know what most of that means. >_>

Zeik56, post: 5365051 wrote:

Perhaps I'm in way over my head here, but I don't really know what most of that means. >_>

A printer or prinshop use a 4 colour Process. C/m/y/k - Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black

This is the bread and butter for printing. RGB is only screen colours and is not a true representation of colour when printed as its illuminated pixels on an LCD.

300DPI is 300 Dots Per Inch. So a LCD is 72/96 dpi and is considered low res in the printing realm. 300dpi ensures a much cleaner and less lossy print. When your finding images to use for your templates try and find images like 1080p as its the best your going to find to get anything decent out of it when printed, its dependent on the size though.

This is why i render my own images. So i can guarantee the best possible result when printed. And i control the size and resolution. Sometimes i like to use 600dpi.

d3v

Zeik56, post: 5365051 wrote:

Perhaps I'm in way over my head here, but I don't really know what most of that means. >_>

300DPI (or 300PPI) means exactly that. In a single square inch of material, there will be 300x300 (or 90,000) individual dots or pixels filling that square inch up. This means that the art will be in high-res. Normally, images are only set at 72DPI. The difference between 72 and 300 is like the difference between SDTV and HDTV. A bit of fightstick art at 300DPI is usually around 4200x2550 pixels in size, bring that down to 72 DPI and the images shrinks to 1008x612 pixels in size.

Zeik56

Well I do at least know what CMYK and RGB mean, however I don't know much about switching between them in photoshop.

As for DPI though, how exactly does one check if an image has good DPI?

d3v

Zeik56, post: 5365121 wrote:

Well I do at least know what CMYK and RGB mean, however I don't know much about switching between them in photoshop.

As for DPI though, how exactly does one check if an image has good DPI?

It should be in the images properties when you right click on it.

Zeik56

Ah, I see. Looks like most of the images I've been using are 72 dpi. Damn.

Bertross

Zeik56, post: 5365147 wrote:

Ah, I see. Looks like most of the images I've been using are 72 dpi. Damn.

print a 300pdi and a 72 pdi image out and see the difference. D3V comparison was a better explanation :D

In photoshop, go to image size, in their turn off resample. If its left on it will only make the image larger and photoshop will cheat in pixels but it will look terrible.

Change the res to 300pdi, you will see the actual size of the image shink in print size.

eg it would have been 15cm at 72pdi, but now might be 4cm at 300pdi. Thats gives you an accurate sizing to the final print size of the image chosen at print. So find the largest possible images from the web to use on your artwork.

Sorry if my explanation is confusing im not the best at wording it without showing someone.

as a last resort 200dpi is acceptable on most laser printers as its not a proper pre-press it will be hard to spot the difference without using a loop to see the dots. For me i would be using a nice matte stock maybe with a satin finish. Gloss will only ad extra shine that the plexi already will give.

Zeik56

So basically I'm not screwed just because the image starts at 72 dpi? A lot of my images are actually pretty massive, so hopefully they'll still work out for me.

Edit: Assuming I didn't screw up what I was supposed to do it looks like it's not negatively impacting my images, yay.

d3v

Zeik56, post: 5365246 wrote:

So basically I'm not screwed just because the image starts at 72 dpi? A lot of my images are actually pretty massive, so hopefully they'll still work out for me.

Edit: Assuming I didn't screw up what I was supposed to do it looks like it's not negatively impacting my images, yay.

Just resize them to 300dpi.

Bertross

Zeik56, post: 5365246 wrote:

So basically I'm not screwed just because the image starts at 72 dpi? A lot of my images are actually pretty massive, so hopefully they'll still work out for me.

Edit: Assuming I didn't screw up what I was supposed to do it looks like it's not negatively impacting my images, yay.

exactly,

1080P is exactly 67.73cm wide and 38.1cm high at 72pdi
1080P resampled to 300 pdi is 16.26cm wide and 9.14cm high.

this does not alter the image just changes the DPI in proportion.

Zeik56

d3v, post: 5365267 wrote:

Just resize them to 300dpi.

Just to be sure, I just have make sure it's set to 300 pixel/inch under Resolution, correct?

Bertross

Image/Image Size/ Turn off Resample image / change resolution.