Time for a project guys!
Some time ago i scanned the Crazy kong bezel for Bela.
He asked me a question;
"Hi Etienne,
Just wanted to ask you what do you think about this scan.
Is it good enough to make a vectorized file from it?"I responded;
"I think its possible, i like to try to start learning adobe Illustrator, But as you know, learning and graphics take time, so if you are not in a hurry, i can try to do the vectorising.
so in this way i have 2 advantages, 1. Im learning 2. I can help somebody ..I looked at the file and realised that the position of the buttons are critical, if not correct, he must modify his CP..
So after alot of mailing about measurements we managed to have the correct measurements for the button holes.
Also i send these measurements to muerto who has a namco galaxian too to verify the measurements.
The rest starts from here
First of all i want to thank my friend Bas from
Laforma (click contact to see the dude's face
)
Who teach me the basics in illustrator, and also is the person who is going to show me to finalize the file so it is ready for printing, and helped me through this. Big thanks to you bas !
A pic of bela's current beautiful bezel
The scan after modifications that i send back to bela and later to muerto.
The pic of the cab with the same measurements for verification (bela and muerto did a lot of "physical" measuring)
Thank you guys for that!
When i did the global setup from the current measurements and using the scan as a refference, it looked out of position.
Time to build it from scratch in AI...
I created some shots of measurements and since Bela does not have a bezel, i send it to muerto who was kind enough to measure everything more than once..
After the basic shapes where ready it was time for the "galaxy"
To start i cut out the galaxy from the scan and later cleaned the file a little
The moons i cut out and run that through Vector magic, wich saved me alot of time since they are curved etc etc.
The stars in cose-up after vectorising
Later i can "throw" them in the bezel
Then Bela send me another pic of a bezel as a refference, wich also had the extra text "manufactured by f.lli Bertolino"
He asked me if i could put that text in too.
Also i already created a custom instruction card, wich was very nice and accepted by both muerto and Bela, but as you can see in this picture it is not the original.
I searched for some fonts that looked like it and send some examples to Bela, and he choose one that i also thought was the closest of the set
We compared it to the original wich looks like this
After some "reshaping" the text its in position
also here was the custom instructioncard wich we decided to change
I extracted the instruction card wich was in Bela's bezel picture and started to recreate the aliens
Here some before and after shots
Now that my new friends where al together its time to give them a nice place in a new instruction card
Since the original card did not have a "bonus value" i decided to put the factory default of 7000 points
After all the text recreation and positioning i made a black border around it
New instruction card in place
As you can see i finished the bezel so far, and im now busy with a printer here in holland who can print on vinyl and bla bla bla bla bla so for now thats it, and ill keep you guy's posted when there are developments
