looking for an awesome designer to repo artwork for me..

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looking for an awesome designer to repo artwork for me..

this will be the hardest part of my restoration so i might as well throw this out here now...as it might take weeks or months to find someone and get this done correctly...

Im either looking to get a underlay made or, maybe a glass decal I can apply on the top...or even better apply it from the bottom to protect it more...

-Brian
 

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Do you have a good image of the artwork to reproduce....or are you looking for something custom/close?

Thats the best pics to date that have been found(via klov, internet, others looking into this over the years)...i believe that this was only made for one for promotional things. (well of the 5 that have been claimed, they all look like this from my understanding -Pic below- unless all 5 had their glass broken and everyone replaced them the same way)

but I can make a paper/poster template of the glass and where monitor sits 100% accurate (saving on sending the glass, i rather not risk breaking it unless its all scratched up anyway and needs replaced)

Colors should be basic to other centipede colors...it would just be the size of the design to fit around the 19" monitor then i guess on spacing off from the glass edge on all sides...

So yes, it would be looking for something "close"

-Brian
 

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It looks like there is a blank space between the logo and info and screen, so it's like a window where the wood grain showing through?

If you get this designed, then you can have it reverse printed and affix it to the underside of the glass.

Also, those tiny corner Atari logos might be tricky to include as well. They would need to be vinyl cut with a plotter, in reverse as well.
 
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It looks like there is a blank space between the logo and info and screen, so it's like a window where the wood grain showing through?

If you get this designed, then you can have it reverse printed and affix it to the underside of the glass.

Also, those tiny corner Atari logos might be tricky to include as well. They would need to be vinyl cut with a plotter, in reverse as well.


Exactly what I was thinking with all of the art and how I was hoping to apply it... i think its a window also with woodgrain showing threw like the tempest 19" cocktail art..little arati stickers can be made separately and applied..I just need to get some quotes from ppl now who can make this

-Brian
 
It wouldn't be that difficult to make. Only thing is, any idea what any of the information under the logo is?

The color picture you posted....the area under the centipede title is blue....looks like a continuation of artwork. The black and white you posted, it looks like operating information?
 
Ive got another vector project right now so I cant take a crack at it right now, but there shouldn't be too much guesswork with this.

Based on the structure of it, the text under the right side of the centipede logo is the instructions as found on the label on the produced cabaret, and on the bezel on the upright, but in black.

Under the left side of the logo are the different creature sprites, but instead of being in a straight line like on the upright bezel and the cocktail label ------ they are accordioned in to save some length /\/\/ not sure of the order but you can see the red in the eyes in the black and white picture like on the cocktail label, so a few are readily placed.

I believe in the center under the logo is one of the character mushrooms like on the top of the upright bezel. I know its not an atari logo because its asymmetrical. Its hard to see, but my best guess its from the one in the center (the centipede) but with a red background instead of a yellowish one, green line art instead of black, and yellow coloration instead of green.

Are there any other photos of it? they may be of poorer quality, but we can get more information out of different pics just based on cues from the known the pre-existing art.
 

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good eye! yes, it looks to be exactly the same as the bottom of the cabaret bezel under the Centipede "words"

as far as the rest, I will go get exact measurements of the glass and also where the screen sits under the glass..the artworks looks to be 1/4 - 1/2 inch off the edge of the glass...

and for how "thick" the lines are going around the monitor and would just be a guess...but the good thing is they are going in a straight line down to the "centipede" letters so that would help getting "centipede" and instruction info sized correctly. also the little atari symbols are on the bottom right of the screen for player 1 and 2 where they sit...

And no dice on the pics...this is all i have found, and think thats all that exists

-Brian
 
well starting from the monitor...

the lines going around monitor from inside out are Green/Blue

then it goes GREEN/Blue/green for the larger rings...

The i guess its just a matter of placing "Centipede and instructions info" together then pasting it into the bottom down there which on that...it looks like the top 2 corners are squared off...and the bottom 2 are rounded to flow along with the round lines

-Brian
 
This was done many years ago. I have an underlay, and CPOs for a cocktail I have in storage. I can't recall if it was Arcade Renovations or Phoenix Arcade.

Michael
 
This was done many years ago. I have an underlay, and CPOs for a cocktail I have in storage. I can't recall if it was Arcade Renovations or Phoenix Arcade.

Michael

you have a 19" cocktail also? thats awesome

Seriously? next time your in storage can you take a pic of it? or will that be a while because of the weather up there?....



Ill go look tonight when i get off work at those sites.

-Brian
 
Its safe to say, i was not a artist in my previous life or have no skills at all...but I did manage to measure out things as a rough draft...the artwork was a guesstimate deal. But while looking at the game and pics at once...i think im pretty close...
My buddy overseas (fellow klover) is giving it a shot making it why everything is converted into CM on the page (these are what i sent him)

LOL another buddy said i should just print this out and use it ;) sighh

but if he can get the spacing on lines with this...just need to get the "centipede and instructions" middle part done...

-Brian
 

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Did some perspective work and combined both images, I know the layout of the left and right sides underneath the logo, but i still cant find which art piece is on the center bottom, everything else looks fairly straightforward.. any ideas?
 

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HOLY CRAP! thats awesome work...


Its a mushroom im pretty sure with the orange/red i believe...

2nd pic is my buddies rough draft ... I believe we are on the right track with it, just the mushroom needs different colors, and it all needs to "blend" together as one with the blue background (like pic 1)...

think its that mushroom in 2nd pic but with red spot on left and 2 spots on the right side...

-Brian
 

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I wonder if this image could work in replacement of that mushroom on the info sheet?...or do you think that would be overkill? if i we could shrink it enough..i does have the correct mushroom outline. or it could be as simple as the bottom mushroom on the upright sideart, we just cant tell becuase of the angle and size...

Def looking forward to seeing what you come up with also! thanks for making this effort


-Brian
 

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Ok...after obsession about this image (one with both pics combined) for way longer than i want to admit...

Looking at it on my laptop from every possible angle and distance away from my laptop...

I think i have come to a "decent" conclusion of what is in the middle.

I believe its a Mushroom with red spot on the left and 2 little spots on the right (hand drawn cartoon like) also you can see specs of green between the big red spot and the 2 little ones...

I believe that is a centipede crawling on the mushroom.

I have contacted the guy who got that original black and white picture for his Blog Article on this game from a former Atari employee...I will be trying to get a HIGH-RES Scan of the black and white picture to see if that changes anything....

-Brian
 
I came to the same conclusion. I will bet you anything that its a simplified version of that full detailed centipede but inside of the mushroom frame much like the bezel versions. the angle of the 'pede is perfect and the seperation between the large medium and small red spots line up with the arms, head/antennea. Everything else can be done within a few mm of accuracy except for that damn thing lol :) not to say a placeholder cant be used in the mean time.
again I wish I could crack at this more than I am, I love this kind of stuff.
 
thanks for helping out!

I think im going to use this top pic of the flyer for now...as a replacement and also make another and choose from the 2

Hopefully a rough draft will be finished before xmas...I def think we are getting close!

-Brian
 

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we are getting close....though the mushroom isnt correct we are making 2 different ones and go from there....but here is one (i like it) and we are making another with close to original as possible (mushroom).

-Brian
 

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First rough draft...my boy hannes is awesome
 

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