Shmup based arcade stick art

[Immryr]

Does anyone have any shmup, or none fighting game, custom arcade stick art? I just got a madcatz wwe brawl stick and of course I need to get rid of this awful art asap. I don't think I could focus on whatever I'm playing with the Rock and triple h staring up at me.

I have zero photoshop skills and the only stuff I can find online is fighting game themes on shoryuken.

[Special World]

You don't really need photoshop skills... I think all the Madcatz sticks should have blank templates up online (probably on shoryuken) that you just layer your chosen art on top of. I have 0% photoshop skills but I was able to make a custom stick:

http://postimg.org/image/h3vu3b105/

You might actually need photoshop itself though. Not sure what programs their image file accepts. The hardest part is finding a retailer with the right color of vinyl dye, if you go that route.

[Immryr]

Yeah I've got a template but I'm having trouble just finding images big enough to print at a decent quality.

Nice stick btw!

[Special World]

Rancor's site has a few great high-res posters, dunno if any of this will work on your stick though:

http://www.sk8tokyo.com/shmup/

[Stevens]

If you don't have Photoshop or don't want to pay for it, try GIMP. It's free!

http://www.gimp.org/

[Immryr]

Thanks guys. If anyone can point me in the direction of more hi res shmup posters or images that would be cool.

[emphatic]

Thanks guys. If anyone can point me in the direction of more hi res shmup posters or images that would be cool.

http://www.world-of-arcades.net/

[alamone]

There's some wallpapers for DBAC on the Taito site that you can use:
http://darius.jp/dbac/gallery/download.html

Example on my Hori VX:

[Immryr]

i think that ancient barrage wallpaper might be the winner. now I just need to work out how to make it fit well on the template and we're off!

[Immryr]

so after messing about trying to work out how to use gimp for a while I managed to come up with this using the ancient barrage wallpaper.

http://i.imgur.com/WdZcNyN.jpg

which is basically just the image flipped and scaled up. I want to put the darius burst ac ex logo in the top right corner but I haven't yet worked out how to blend it in with the background.

I also made this with an image from cloudbuilt, which is a game I haven't actually played, but I like the art style a lot.

http://i.imgur.com/1zLKnu3.jpg


any advice or help from people who are more skilled at design and gimp / photoshop would be greatly appreciated!

[RealPlumpBox]

This like is 5 years old but oh well. I was at PAX East on 2010 and Markman of Mad Catz saw my stick and wanted a pic for his blog i guess (he is a huge collector of arcade sticks). its a few pics into the post.

http://sdtekken.com/2010/03/29/penny-arcade-expo-recap/

[jimmy2x2x]

A radiant silvergun design I was working on a few years back

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[emphatic]

http://www.emphatic.se/?p=197

[Mr Halibut]

Someone please do one of a CAVE CV-1000 PCB. Or even better, a CAVE cardboard box!

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

A radiant silvergun design I was working on a few years back

Spoiler

Isn't that the Ikaruga ship though

[RealPlumpBox]

A radiant silvergun design I was working on a few years back

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Pretty sure its Ikaruga.

[1up]

This one, someone on here made, is pretty cool