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Custom Cover Art - Minimalist, clean, or alternative box arts for your favorite games
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I've gotta ask, RedSwirl: wouldn't it make more sense for the spine to be the colour of the front cover, not the back? Most times when the case is sitting down, it'll be with the top visible, not the bottom, so wouldn't it look better for the spine to match the visible surface?
Anyway, this was one of my other ideas for the Metroid Prime Trilogy. Realized part way through making the arm cannon that it looked kind of strange and that it'd be hard to even tell what it was, so I kind of half-heartedly finished the rest of it. Oh well.
Anyway, this was one of my other ideas for the Metroid Prime Trilogy. Realized part way through making the arm cannon that it looked kind of strange and that it'd be hard to even tell what it was, so I kind of half-heartedly finished the rest of it. Oh well.
Can you guys make a gradient like this? Would like to use it as a cover, needs to be at least 2164 pixels tall.
I also can't find a Chaos Theory logo of a good size. Really I only need the word Chaos Theory since I am going to use the cool Blacklist logo, which I found a massive render of.
That is probably able to be created as well, but Zajora is far and away better than me at these kind of things.
Thanks for the help.
I also can't find a Chaos Theory logo of a good size. Really I only need the word Chaos Theory since I am going to use the cool Blacklist logo, which I found a massive render of.
That is probably able to be created as well, but Zajora is far and away better than me at these kind of things.
Thanks for the help.
Well, it's not perfect, but if it's scaled down it probably won't look too bad: click
For the gradient, there are lots of ways to make one like that, but the easiest way (and the way I do it) is to go into the custom shapes tool, and find the shape that's a circle filled with this pattern of lines. When you drag it out while holding shift to maintain aspect ratio it'll be a bunch of triangles angled inwards like you want. Sorry for that terrible description! (I can make one for you if you want, but it'd probably better for you to know how to do it yourself)
Squalliczek
Neo Member
Hi, I once again renew my request for editions of these covers. Thanks in advance
Recreated this pretty quickly. I'll probably try the other ones tomorrow or when I get back from work.
Here's my first (Half-assed) attempt, and with this I finally completed my collection. Finding the logo and then editing it for transparency is something I won't be thrilled to do again. but Forza 4 is tempting me...
Full cover:
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?eh473fze8npaazm
I just found this awesome thread a little while back. Very inspirational, hope to create a few of my own. Anyway, the link seems broken, anyone have this cover or something similar for RR7? One thing I notice is no developer or publisher logos, at least on the spine would make sense, no?
Also no love for Elder Scrolls Oblivion? Anyone have a clean simplistic PS3 cover of it? I guess I'll just do some of my own then.
Unfortunately it looks like the link for that cover went down before I started backing up all the covers in this thread to a centralized dropbox but if you'd like you can check there for other covers you're interested in, such as Oblivion. (The index in the first posts is out of date)
Covers in this thread rarely include publisher logos. You're welcome to include your own of course, but personally I think covers look best with the minimum amount of extra legal information.
For Oblivion, I actually did make a cover for it pretty recently.
Decided to make an Oblivion cover just for completeness (Let's pretend Arena/Daggerfall don't exist)
I made them for PC, but if you want I can convert it into a PS3 cover. It'd be great for you to contribute your own covers though, the more the merrier.
Edit: I just checked the dropbox, and it looks like someone else did make an Oblivion cover:
Wow. You just my my day with that Dropbox link. Sometime soon I'll make a photo of my whole PS3 collection in the neogaf clean style, it'll take some time to get the right covers selected and also make some own though. For a start, I made two variations for MK VS DC as a PS3 box.
Squalliczek
Neo Member
Recreated this pretty quickly. I'll probably try the other ones tomorrow or when I get back from work.
Thank you very much
Thank you very much
No problem.
Wasn't totally sure what you meant by "alignment string" but...
Is that what you were looking for?
Wow. You just my my day with that Dropbox link. Sometime soon I'll make a photo of my whole PS3 collection in the neogaf clean style, it'll take some time to get the right covers selected and also make some own though. For a start, I made two variations for MK VS DC as a PS3 box.
Glad it'll be useful to you.
Those covers look great, but just one thing. I would recommend if possible that you crop the whitespace around the template. Eventually I plan to have some way of automatically generating previews for the covers, but having all that extra space around them makes it look pretty strange in the 3D preview. I suppose theoretically I could add a trim action to the batch, but even so, it'd probably be better for all the covers to be the same size to begin with.
Love the IRL screen shots.
Can you or any other of you guys post more.
I love seeing the finished product.
I started adding all the pictures of printed covers that I saw to the first folder of the backup Dropbox:
Here's a few of them:
Squalliczek
Neo Member
No problem.
Wasn't totally sure what you meant by "alignment string" but...
Is that what you were looking for?
Thanks. That's what I meant, it looks great. I still have one question. How to print the cover, I mean setting the print size in a graphics program.
You shouldn't have to set the print size. As long as you don't let the printer/program scale the image, it should turn out at 10.75 by 5.84 inches for the PS3 cover.
Squalliczek
Neo Member
Monkeylord
Member
Ooh... someone used my Rock Band covers
I really must get round to doing RB1-3 sometime. I keep meaning to go back to them. Glad you liked them enough to use them!
Anybody else like to see DVD-sized cases for PS1 games? A while ago (before the current gen was in full swing) a lot of people did this to make them fit more in line with PS2 games. Here you go:
Metal Gear Solid
I did a lot of messing around trying to find good art for an MGS1 cover but ultimately I decided to do something reminiscent of the original Japanese and US covers for the game. I'm thinking of starting to put developer logos on all my covers now. It at least makes sense to give props to the guys who actually made the game.
I was like "Oh, that's pretty neat," until I saw it.
Amazing. If I still had a physical copy of this game that would be my cover for sure.
properpropaganda
Member
So since I cannot for the life of me figure out how to link from the dropbox to here I'm going to post it as a link, but could someone remake this cover as a Wii U version?
Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed III
I hate Assassin's Creed, but I gotta admit that cover is awesome.
Agreed, I did. Here's the above covers updated, plus I added a few more I made. So without much a due, here is the first batch of covers "made by wizball".
Please note that I use Gimp on Mac, so I can't use the Photoshop Actions or scripts to morph the covers into the 3D box models. If anyone can do that for me (us) that would be great. The Heavenly Sword cover is similar to another one I noticed, but mine is cleaner and simpler I think. Enjoy and let me know what you think. A favourite of my friends is the Bioshock one. That image simply begged for being used as cover art. Sadly, the upload cropped one pixel, I have no idea why. But it shouldn't matter.
Link to full size gallery:
here
properpropaganda
Member
Made a Ducktales cover pretty much using the Nes cover:
and Wizball, here a 3d boxes for your covers
and Wizball, here a 3d boxes for your covers
Nice Ducktales cover! I'm thinking of doing some Wii covers soon, perhaps even all NES style. And thanks for the 3D boxes. Looks cool.
properpropaganda
Member
Nice Ducktales cover! I'm thinking of doing some Wii covers soon, perhaps even all NES style. And thanks for the 3D boxes. Looks cool.
There was a guy way early in the thread that was doing some Wii covers NES style.
May I request a cover for the PS3 version of Skate (and possibly 3)?
Preferrably with the clean style like most PS3 boxarts here.
EDIT:
Preferrably with the clean style like most PS3 boxarts here.
EDIT:
Anyone got a copy of that; the download link's down. Another cover in the same style would be nice too.
DarkGiygas
Member
Hey man, gimme a sec i'll pm you it.
I gotta get Photoshop again so i can make more covers.
Edit: Actually here's the link for anyone that wants it / main post
http://www.mediafire.com/download/qp747gctuo3qxs0/PS3-RCTOD.zip
I gotta get Photoshop again so i can make more covers.
Edit: Actually here's the link for anyone that wants it / main post
http://www.mediafire.com/download/qp747gctuo3qxs0/PS3-RCTOD.zip
properpropaganda
Member
Wizball, can I get the original picture for this? I want to make a PC cover with it.
DarkGiygas
Member
Scanned through and didn't see a Hitman Absolution cover with this art, so I decided to make one.
Download (PS3/360)
Download (PS3/360)
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Professor Lich
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Since it's releasing tomorrow, I thought I'd try to do some quick covers for The Bureau: X-COM Declassified.
I think I like the first one better, but I really wanted one of the command room/place. Maybe I can get a better angle with my own screens sometime.
Also in the process of fixing my Rogue Legacy and FTL covers, if anyone is interested in those.
I think I like the first one better, but I really wanted one of the command room/place. Maybe I can get a better angle with my own screens sometime.
Also in the process of fixing my Rogue Legacy and FTL covers, if anyone is interested in those.
cj_iwakura
Member
Agreed, I did. Here's the above covers updated, plus I added a few more I made. So without much a due, here is the first batch of covers "made by wizball".
Link to full size gallery:
here
As nice as the Under Defeat one is, could you do one with either the other character(maybe one on each side?) or both of them?
Awesome, thank you very, very much!
I'd love if you could try making it so that the logo doesn't clip to the side (the right term for the middle part keeps escaping my mind) so that it only has the PS3 logo and the Skate 2 text.
Lots of great covers! I've added them all to the dropbox.
It looks like the download link image is only 900px × 601px. Did you mean to link a printable size?
Here is the largest size I could fine (2400px x 1157px)
It looks like the download link image is only 900px × 601px. Did you mean to link a printable size?
Here is the largest size I could fine (2400px x 1157px)
Ooops, yeah sorry. What is the recommended size?
Here's what I said earlier:
(The Multi Template is 3225px x 2156px)
Sure. How's this?
I made a few new ones for CVG today; Wonderful 101, Splinter Cell Blacklist and The Bureau:
WiiU / Xbox / PS3 download links are here
WiiU / Xbox / PS3 download links are here
Oh you mean a sexy one? ^^
Yeah, thanks for posting this. I used the same link I think. I upscaled it with Gimp, which looks fine.
Thanks.
It looks like this is one of those annoying wallpaper sites that doesn't let you link to the file properly, so I reuploaded it. Here it is.
Thanks Zajora, I hate dealing with those wallpaper sites.
Well, technically you can print it on whatever paper you have with whatever printer you have. For best results you'd probably want to have it printed at a store that has specialty paper/printers, but for home-printing, glossy photo paper with an ink jet printer would probably be best.
That's what I did and I'm really happy with the result (though cutting with scissors isn't the best option). Just open up the image, set it not scale at all and print on glossy A4 and voila!
Yeah, if possible you should probably cut it with an xacto knife. (AKA utility knife/other names)
Funny that I'm giving this advice, since I'm really lazy with the covers I've printed, but oh well. I'll call them draft versions.
DarkGiygas
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