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Originally posted by: vbangle
Originally posted by: calamari

Everyone: I've posted a logo rotoscoping tutorial on the wiki.


Sounds cool....could you point me to a link to the tut? Thanks in advance.


http://kidsquid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=rotoscoping

I hope I am using the correct term when I say rotoscoping. If not, someone please correct me (and tell me what the correct term is)! Here is a non-computer example of what I've called "rotoscoping": Imagine a Star Wars cover with a gold Star Wars logo on it and a black background. Take a pair of scissors, and cut out the logo so that there is no black background remaining. Now the logo can be glued onto a white surface (or any color). If we just cut out a rectangle with the logo in it then we could only place it onto a black surface, otherwise the rectangle would stand out.

My tutorial shows how to do the same with graphical images, so that the background is changed to a transparent color and the edges are partially transparent. Then, the logo has been freed from its original graphics and can now be placed onto any cover. This is better than just using the magic wand, because the wand doesn't give soft edges.
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Originally posted by: Falle
... go ahead and upload the logos, hopefully you'll also link me

Thanks a lot! I'd be happy to make a link.
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Originally posted by: Lord Phillock

Hey, I didn't say I wasn't going to send them... it's just that right at this moment I'm not at home and my PC is a couple of thousand miles away from me right now.


Hi! Glad to hear from you. I look forward to seeing the high resolution versions. In the meantime, I'll continue messing around with that design

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Originally posted by: calamari
I hope I am using the correct term when I say rotoscoping. If not, someone please correct me (and tell me what the correct term is)!


Since you asked nicely I'll correct you.

Rotoscoping isn't the correct term, rotoscoping is the process of tracing movement on film frame by frame. For example, lightsabers are rotoscoped, an special effects artist paints a glow over the plain stick the actor swings around frame by frame (though digital rotoscoping allows you to occasionally skip frames). The term originally only applied to tracing live footage for animated cartoons; A Scanner Darkly is a recent example of a full film done this way.

I doubt there is a specific term to describe what your after, I can only think of Logo Extraction.

http://www.kineticpast.com/starwars/thecheatlaserdisc.gif
Ooh, a laserdisc. The Cheat's playin' something on a laserdisc.
Everything is better on a laserdisc. Whatever happened to the laserdisc? Laserdisc!

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Calamari, if you want I could just give you a psd file with the logo you want.. I have all of my stuff in psd..
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Originally posted by: Falle
Calamari, if you want I could just give you a psd file with the logo you want.. I have all of my stuff in psd..
You can also get them here: http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/
Some were not blessed with brains.
<blockquote>Originally posted by: BadAssKeith

You are passing up on a great opportunity to makes lots of money,
make Lucas lose a lot of his money
and make him look bad to the entire world
and you could be well known and liked

None of us here like Lucas or Lucasfilm.
I have death wishes on Lucas and Macullum.
we could all probably get 10s of thousands of dollars!
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I thought he wanted stuff I've worked on, not just basics..
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Originally posted by: Falle
Calamari, if you want I could just give you a psd file with the logo you want.. I have all of my stuff in psd..


That would be a huge help! Just checked and it looks like The GIMP can import photoshop images Perhaps we should take this to PM.

Thanks!
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I've som good and bad news.

The good news:
My host had a backup with all my stuff.

The bad news:
They can only restore the backup if the entire server was to be restored.

The good news:
I've now found all of my covers again, so they are back in my possesion.

The bad news:
I'm too lazy to upload 80+ covers right now, expect it to be in this week.

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I uploaded them all except WS And SW for now.

They should be coming soon..

I need one of my covers, the Making of SW cover, Sluggo you might have it? Mail it to me
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I'm gonna need the covers for Last Starfighter as well.
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DanielB,

Just so you know, re-registering under a different name when you know you are still banned from this site will not help your cause. It's not up to you to decide when you are allowed back here. If you want to come back, you need to discuss it with us via email first.

-Z
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Uploaded these covers today:

http://thomas-anders.dk/fp/images/covers/latest-rocky.gif
http://thomas-anders.dk/fp/images/covers/latest-lotr.gif
http://thomas-anders.dk/fp/images/covers/latest-ij.gif

And all the other covers are up again except SW and WS.

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I've uploaded a series of useful fonts for cover making..

www.thomas-anders.dk/fp
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Hey guys - great covers! But what DVD case is the preferred one to purchase? I recently bought a case of the cheap Meritlines, and the plastic sleeve is really thin. Sometimes the artwork gets ripped, especially near the cutouts for the inner liner notes tabs. The thin plastic sleeve gives too much. So what do you guys recommend? Amaray?
Thanks in advance
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Amarays, not Amaray IIs, are the best, imho. I also prefer the hinged slot for the second disk for the double cases.

Does anyone know a site to order them from? I got them from an eBay seller.
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I like them. I think they have a sophistication to them. I gotta say that the font on the back is about the largest I have seen on a DVD case. The back could use a subtle graphic or picture to fill out the blank space. The Logos on the front are a little choppy. Other than that, they are pretty good.
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
The back could use a subtle graphic or picture to fill out the blank space.
Okay, I'll see what it looks like with a small picture on the back.

The Logos on the front are a little choppy. Other than that, they are pretty good.

Which logos do you mean? I'm guessing you mean the title logos (they have the lowest resolution of any of them). If they are bad, I can scan my laserdisc covers and probably get a pretty good looking image. That is what I did for the Star Wars logo on the spine. I am not entirely sure what you mean by choppy though.. do you mean having rough edges?

Thanks a lot for your feedback.
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I'm based in Ventura California. Yep, love the sun, hate the taxes.
Do you guys buy the DVD cases from Meritline? The cheap double sets I bought had the hinge, but they kept popping out. AAAGGGHHH.
As for the Wookiegroomer sets, I used the DarthOsor ones that I got from Rikter's very nice Ultimate DVD Rom II.
There was matching disc art as well.
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Originally posted by: Falle
I uploaded them all except WS And SW for now.

They should be coming soon..

I need one of my covers, the Making of SW cover, Sluggo you might have it? Mail it to me

Can do!

Originally posted by: calamari
Originally posted by: Sluggo
Which logos do you mean? I'm guessing you mean the title logos (they have the lowest resolution of any of them). If they are bad, I can scan my laserdisc covers and probably get a pretty good looking image. That is what I did for the Star Wars logo on the spine. I am not entirely sure what you mean by choppy though.. do you mean having rough edges?

Thanks a lot for your feedback.


Yeah the title logos. But since those are mock-ups, it's not a big deal.