Wizard of Oz Playfield Artwork

Well, the JJP photoshop work is less pixilated and clearer/cleaner than Stern's photoshop work.

Solid, with good custom background work, but I'm not really inspired.

-Hans
 
I'd prefer fully hand drawn art over pictures, but having all the parts on it will also probably add a lot to the appearance.

Game itself looks like it'll be great, even though I consider it right there with Wheel of Fortune and Shaq as least appealing theme ever (to me). I keep reading that JJP got the rights to The Hobbit. That one will be much tougher to resist!
 
Some information about the artwork is at the link below. Greg Freres diplomatically mentions why the characters are photorealistic rather than more "hand drawn" in appearance.

Makes sense. If you're using their license, you have to make the license owner happy too.

-Hans
 
This dude did a photoshop mockup to give an idea of how it will look semi-assembled! Pretty cool!

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was happy to see someone making an OZ pin

sorta looks cool
but
something doesnt look quite right. cant put my finger on it
maybe too busy/too many circles, something

i hope its a fun pin and sells well so they will make a next one
 
Ugh, what a mess. So many different art styles thrown on there, bad photoshop, fuzzy edges, clip art silhouettes, some hand drawn art, a dozen different fonts and every color of the rainbow. It's very hard to look at. This needed to all be the same style (illustration) to pull it off but as is it looks like a scrapbooking project done by my grandma - which makes sense because she is the target audience for this ill conceived theme.
 
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if you're into, um...Wizard of OZ, I guess it looks fine. Not really my thing though. The hobbit, on the other hand is something im guessing most people can work with.
 
Gotta agree the bottom half of the PF is oddly out of character with the rest.

There better be some awesome magnet action under that witch.

Rainbow section is horrid on that mockup.
 
the colors are pretty awful in the middle and lower playfield...all that muddy brown ehh

hopefully this does well so they can move on to a decent license anyone under 60 actually cares about

Ohp, I guess someone isn't coming to the box opening party..... ;)
 
Rainbow section is horrid on that mockup.

That was a mock-up/fakeout. Jack said that won't be on the final game....but he wanted something to "simulate" a rainbow effect....so - if I had to guess, that'll be some kind of clear/frosted plastic with color changing LEDs, or some kind of visual trick.

He's only revelaed a small percent of what the game truly will be, and has admitted to misinformation to throw off the competition...there are still a lot of surprises to come.

Greg
 
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