AAI background sprite in HQ

Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:49 am

dirtypantsdan

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For a while I've been wanting to use the background sprite from Ace Attorney Investigations as my personal wallpaper. Naturally it ended up looking overly pixelated due to it being blown up in size.

So I said, "screw it" and I re-created my own in higher quality at 1024 x 768.

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Nothing original, but I tried my best to make it look almost identically as it appeared in the game. Thought I'd share this for those of you who really liked the image from the game as much as I did. :)

Re: AAI background sprite in HQ

Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:11 am

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Wow. How did you create that!?
I think it's great, and I loved that image too! :godot:

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Re: AAI background sprite in HQ

Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:59 am

dirtypantsdan

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Hey thanks, I knew I wasn't the only one who had realized the awesomeness of the image. It was really simple to do, I mainly used the original sprite as a guide. :hobohodo:

Re: AAI background sprite in HQ

Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:56 am

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dirtypantsdan wrote:

Hey thanks, I knew I wasn't the only one who had realized the awesomeness of the image. It was really simple to do, I mainly used the original sprite as a guide. :hobohodo:

It would be really time consuming, wouldn't it? And it looks EXACTLY the same! :keiko:

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Re: AAI background sprite in HQ

Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:50 pm

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It looks like he used the official artwork, filled it with one color, lessened the opacity of each silhouette, then created a shadow for each. Then with some bold lines and white gradients around the edges he replicated the effect of the original UI.

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Re: AAI background sprite in HQ

Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:42 pm

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Yup, that's exactly what I did. Very basic Photoshop techniques. The only thing remotely tricky and I use that term very loosely, was shaping the shadows in the exact same shape and position as the original sprite, I didn't want to use the shadow layer effect so I just used the transform tool. :P

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Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:08 pm

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*saves pic*

Very nice job indeed. I liked that image but never thought of it as making a good desktop background.

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Re: AAI background sprite in HQ

Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:38 am

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Percei wrote:

It looks like he used the official artwork, filled it with one color, lessened the opacity of each silhouette, then created a shadow for each. Then with some bold lines and white gradients around the edges he replicated the effect of the original UI.

dirtypantsdan wrote:

Yup, that's exactly what I did. Very basic Photoshop techniques. The only thing remotely tricky and I use that term very loosely, was shaping the shadows in the exact same shape and position as the original sprite, I didn't want to use the shadow layer effect so I just used the transform tool. :P

Sounds tricky, and very clever! :godot:

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Re: AAI background sprite in HQ

Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:43 am

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*right click>>>save as>>>>wallpapers*
Good job on that one^^

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