Quoted from dugmar:This is something that drives me nuts on modern pinball machines. What do you see here in this backbox art?
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I see a scene. A scene where the main character is in a castle with other characters from the game. It sets a scene with objects, people all proportioned correctly and in correct scale. It tells a story. It has depth with action going on in the background. It is an actual snapshot put to art. Perfect layout. SO well done.
However, what I see so often, are things like this...
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What in the world is going on here? The two main characters just huge in scale compared to the others. The car is there for what? The car is in front of the two main characters and completely out of proportion and scale. There is no scene here, just a bunch of cut and pasting thrown on a flat surface. Where are the villains in the lower left looking? Each one is looking in a different direction. And why are they cut off at mid-torso?
This reminds me of a bad tattoo'd arm compared to a properly done sleeve. You know what I mean, where you have unrelated random objects just thrown on the same canvas, all in a different scale. Compared to a properly crafted layout with, where all subjects are tied together and all in the same scale, with filler in between, making for a nicely laid out theme that tells a story.
In my opinion, pinball companies need to make a nicely thought out scene, not a cut and paste job to see how much stuff they can fit in a backbox. What do you think?
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