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BBB94 · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 407 Location: WI, USA

I don’t think the front portion of the side art would work well because it would be too oddly cropped, so I left the following as write in candidates in case anyone disagrees with me:
Side art planet on left (front portion of left side)
Side art planet on right (front portion of left side)

If there is a landslide, I may do a 2nd favorite back art poll to ferret out the best options for additional shirts.

For better or worse the options would have been more specific if there was not a 10 choice limit for polls.

blubboman · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 69 Location: Lebanon, In

Like my other post, the playfield waitress has it all!

A tray of wacky space drinks
A slinky 'Saturn ring' boob dress
Blue skin
Orange mohawk hair
Tubes for ears (uh, not sure what those are for . .)

She looks good on the side cabinet also.

BBB94 · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 407 Location: WI, USA

BBB94 · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 407 Location: WI, USA

I added the thumbnails to my original post.

BBB94 · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 407 Location: WI, USA

Does anyone know how many screens are required to print the backglass?

Am I correct that it takes 7 screens for the side art?

Swann · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 108 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Yes, I think 7 screens should do it in regards to the sideart, maybe 8 (look on the eye of the creature with the long neck top right, it seems like another shade of green)

1 Yellow
2 Red
3 Black
4 Light Blue
5 Light Green
6 Purple
7 White
8 (Medium Green)

I'd have to agree too that the playfield waitress is nice (it's the same as on the side-art!). So definitly carefully edited side-art would be truly great as back-print! (that is shouldn't look like some one just took the side-print and used it, the edges should be following the figures and not the cabinett-side size.)
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alienagent · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Pickering, On

I think we would find that robert could probably come up with much better designs for the shirts, His elvira shirt looks really good, not lacking in graphics but not too busy either.
It seems like we are heading in the direction of covering as much of the shirt as possible with paint, and that could look really tacky Very Happy

Im looking for something I can wear without looking like a billboard. Very Happy

robertwinter · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject: Re: Over painted shirts

Kerry Richard · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 101

Thanks for the thumb nails...They're very helpful to me and I'm sure to others.

Thanks again!
Kerry Richard #111

Swann · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 108 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

I agree with that too busy print becomes messy, but I also still think that the Side-art of the cab is truly great. With the right coloring (UV-reactive) it would turn out to a truly amazing print! (and yes, with the right art editing too, wouldn't want it to be a square covering the shirt, it should be a suitable image.)

By the way, Robert, only a second or two? Does the ball drain that fast when you're playing? Twisted Evil

Don't you play for longer periods with your back towards the audience?

Yes, wording makes it too much... it's better to have a print that makes people interested and wants to know more (just art) then one that says it all... and yes, wording is not suitable to wear by everybody.

In regards to the Tube dancer, well why don't we have three prints, you can then get them in every possible variation that you want, that would satisify most people I guess;

1. Front: Tube - Back: Sideart
2. Front: Tube - Back: nothing
3. Front: BBB logo (small top right) - Back: Tube
4. Front: BBB logo (small top right) - Back: Sideart
5. Front: BBB logo (small top right) - Back: nothing
6. Front: Sideart - Back: Tube
7. Front: Sideart - Back: nothing

Personally I think several of the options doesn't really work, and would go for getting some T-shirts of 3 & 4. But the taste is like your a*s, twofolded (this is a Swedish saying, guess it doesn't exist in US..or???), and some of the others someone else might like more.

Sure I would also think it to be truly great with a fourth print available too, one that says "Capcom". Would be cool with a shirt that just says Capcom (small top right) and on the back Tube or sideart.

I believe for the printer it's not such a deal to have many prints to choose between, the big cost is to develop them.
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BBB94 · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 407 Location: WI, USA

Robert, Swann - I agree that (most of?) the final ideas need to be less busy. The more I contemplate things the more I like the idea of having the BBB logo on only one side (whether solo or as part of the BG or side art) – in line with your TD/side art & logo/TD suggestions. 1) it is less repetitive, 2) it identifies the art for the uninitiated. I think the backglass would be difficult and perhaps expensive, and maybe the side art done right would be more impressive on a shirt anyways.

I also agree that the worded shirts aren't that compelling. Although I think the Capcom logo or name or the word “pinball” somewhere would help prevent the shirt from being mistaken as memorabilia for the chain of real bars. I just came up with an idea for this and will post it in the shirt front section when the image gets uploaded.

I’ve been working on (what I think are) some pretty good concept images for the side art and Tubedancer that I will post soon. It occurred to me that we can save money on the side art if the red and yellow are replaced with blue and green like the apron logo. Maybe its not worth it to save a dollar or two per shirt, but we can vote on it at some point.