Concord, CA
Thank god LEDs are easily removed.
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The RBION I picked up today. While I think that it still needs tweaking, lighting wise, I have to say that no matter what I did to shoot it the photos make it look FAR weirder than it does in person. It is nowhere near this purple in person. I’ll be working to light it so as to not wash out any of the great and goofy art.
Quoted from irobot:Someone needs to send this picture to the artist who did the CV translight, with the message, "Your artwork sucked until I made it incredibly beautiful by adding really bright green bulbs. See? YOU'RE WELCOME."
After 30 years as an art director I have found that most non-artists think they know better than artists. Thus, ugly crap fests like this.
Quoted from irobot:Well, it's clear that for an art director, you don't understand how art works.
If you were to study at the feet of one of these modern day "bulb artists", you would have a true socratic experience of learning.
(Someone actually un-ironically referred to LED guys as "bulb artists" a few pages back. If you can believe it.)
What you do is, you take a boring, crumby old translight and you stick colored bulbs behind it that are really bright.
As we all know from the teachings of Plato and Aristotle, the best art is art that "pops" with maximum color poppage.
For example, behold the makeover from Bores-ville to Fabulous-poppage-town with just a few bulbs:Let's work through this "bulb artistry" so you can understand better.
See how the figure on the left is wearing a blue shirt and the key looking things on the right are bluish colored? What you do is put a blue bulb under those areas. Boom. Welcome to the land of awesomeness.
The figures in the center of the picture are white guys wearing tan suits. What color is the same as tan? The answer is yellow. Surprised you didn't know that. Okay so BOOM, you put really bright yellow bulbs under those figures.
Boom.
Poppage. The ancient latin phrase is "poppage athena colliseum tiberius", to denote when the maximum level of beauty has been reached.
Swallow your jealousy and learn to respect "bulb artists". For your own benefit and the benefit of your customers.
Bwahahahaha! Thanks for the education. Detailed and clear artwork is clearly for idiots and people who don't "get it". 
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Quoted from CaptainNeo:you need white with controllable brightness. that is the only feature it should have. I had customized backbox panels with this feature, so I can turn down brightness to 10% to reduce glare.
Agreed. The whole color selection thing is worthless if you intend to actually play the machine.
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