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mr_x · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:43 am Post subject: My version of 'art'

This could equally go into the games section, it's sort of 50:50ish.

Well as I have no artistic skills with anything involving canvas/paper and the like, I do my arty things on the computer with Photoshop.

As I race various games online (racing sims - the realistic ones, not the crap ones) I make some skins (liveries to you people) for what I race too, and here's a few of them that I've done over the years, mainly created through complete boredom or the fact I've had nothing else to do at a given time, most skins are done on Simbin's RACE07 - The Official World Touring Car Championship Game (to give it its full title):

my best one (in my opinion) to date:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/RACE/PSChevy5.png

Being a Geordie, I have to stick something football related in somewhere:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/RACE/NUFCHonda.png

My most recent one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/RACE/chevrolet.jpg

Very bright, but not my best:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/RACE/michelinseat2.jpg

Not my design, but converted from 1 game to another.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/RACE/BrandsRace2b36.jpg

I also do some real-world replicas:

1998 Honda Accord BTCC livery on a 2007 Honda Accord WTCC
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/RACE/HondaAccordWIP2.png

1996 Vauxhall Vectra BTCC livery on a 2007 Chevrolet Lacetti WTCC
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/RACE/96BTCC.png

And on a different game (Live for Speed):
2007 Vauxhall Vectra BTCC replica
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/LFS/vectravxr.jpg

Some shamless 'promotion' a couple of years ago:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/LFS/xfgfeeder.jpg

A very old last.fm skin
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/LFS/lastfmXFR.jpg

I like pies:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/LFS/pukkapiesUF1.jpg

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StarlightInTheGloom · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject:

Wow, they're cool

tut tut...newcastle united

Birmingham are muccchhh better

Michelin man!

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Northern-Star · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject:

They are pretty cool, so what is it that you did? Did you design the cars? Or like the paint jobs and logos on them?
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mr_x · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject:

I just did the paint jobs, get the templates and they end up as a flat template in photoshop, then save it into the format the game reads and then it puts them onto the car shape...

here's a before and after with a template:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/nukez/LFS/flat-skin.gif

All templates are different, different games have different layouts, some games can distort slightly so need to counter-act it with the photoshop resizing of the logos.

They're tricky things to do, using many layers to keep everything separate, time consuming too, they can take anywhere from 2 hours to 8 or even 10 hours.

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Northern-Star · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject:

cool

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Museclues · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:24 am Post subject:

i like the "i like pies" one!

good job chris!
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mr_x · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject:

I got bored tonight...

Going to run this livery in a league I've entered starting in August.

The paint style was taken off a skin I made before, but with this car being much smaller most of it needed re-sizing or re-doing altogether.

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