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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2011, 03:47:38 PM »
Red is always the "mysterious"  color....

I'd almost say the one that's missing the red is either a screening error, or simply a difference.
BUT red is the color that always get's faded by (sun)light...

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2011, 04:27:00 PM »
From my experience at work I'd say that yellow generally fades way faster then red, that's why I didn't even consider the red to have faded on TimePilots Crystal Castle. A look at my CD shelf backs this up as there are several CDs where the yellow color has faded and the red is still intact (on the small side of the inlay which is visible when you put a CD on a shelf).
Maybe screenprinting inks behave differently compared to offset printing inks, at least they are completely different anyway...
Anyway, time to break out the sharpie pen  ;D

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2011, 05:19:47 PM »
A look at my CD shelf backs this up as there are several CDs where the yellow color has faded and the red is still intact (on the small side of the inlay which is visible when you put a CD on a shelf).

question: what's a CD?  :D
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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2011, 02:59:10 AM »
Here a pic from the kickplate. not the best quality but better than nothing... ;)

 :shock: You're missing most of the red, strangely enough it still is present in Bentley Bears hat  ???
Wow, thanks so much for noticing that, I'll make sure to make the red happen at the right places in my repro.
Really weird that the red didn't fade in Bentley's hat though...

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2011, 09:06:21 AM »
question: what's a CD?  :D

It's a piece of plastic capable of providing silly noises. Actually they are trying to replace vinyl records and cassette tapes with it, but I don't think they will succeed  ;D

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2011, 01:07:53 PM »
question: what's a CD?  :D

It's a piece of plastic capable of providing silly noises. Actually they are trying to replace vinyl records and cassette tapes with it, but I don't think they will succeed  ;D
Indeed, they failed !

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2011, 10:32:06 PM »
I pinged a friend of mine...  He sent me this:



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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2011, 12:55:15 AM »
Looks great so far, thanks for that input!
But I wonder why he's using photoshop to do this kind of "geometrical" job... anyway it's the result that counts.
Keep us updated  ;)

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2011, 11:59:24 AM »
Looks great so far, thanks for that input!
But I wonder why he's using photoshop to do this kind of "geometrical" job... anyway it's the result that counts.
Keep us updated  ;)

I think he likes rasters and gigantic filesizes :D  ;)  :lol:

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2011, 05:18:40 PM »
He can just get things done quicker in Photoshop...  His work speaks for itself.  

He finished it (ignore the black...  its not on the main file):
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« Last Edit: February 03, 2011, 10:55:35 PM by shilmover »

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #25 on: February 03, 2011, 05:49:16 PM »
I don't want to be too anal, but that design looks just wrong in all kind of ways. The black lines are not evenly wide, the vertical lines aren't vertical at all in a lot of places, it looks more like an image made in Paint rather than in Photoshop.  :(

When I look at the picture of the original artwork above, all the lines seem perfectly even...
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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2011, 06:08:07 PM »
It's true that the lines of the labyrinth are not super even but mainly the resolution is 72DPI (not good enough for printing).
Thanks a lot for the effort and fast work though, way better than me sitting on my ass and waiting for things to happen!

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #27 on: February 03, 2011, 10:51:54 PM »
Wow...  fine then... >:(

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2011, 11:12:38 PM »
Hey don't take it bad, I really really appreciate your generous help but just can't use a 72dpi file for a 55cmX70cm print.

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Re: Crystal Castles Kickplate Artwork
« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2011, 12:08:16 AM »
Really,  How can I not?  How would you have taken it?

next time...  ask

Instead of attacking the work of someone that was doint it for me as a favor, remember that its a v1 and that he would have been more than happy to tweak it and probably make it available in a larger format/resolution...