Any graphic designers out there? No idea on this stuff myself, but I heard joelbob (on Flip n Out with Friends) talking about the dot gradients on the playfield. It's one of those things that, to the untrained eye, doesn't exist, but once you hear it, you're not able to not see it. I'll bet when the ball is moving I'll stop thinking about it forever, but interesting if anyone here has more expertise. Here's what he said, specifically speaking about the art around the bottom part of the playfield:
"This is something that bothers me: they're going for a half-toned look here. Which is, everything is screened with dots. The problem is they use the same angle for every color, and that is not right and it bothers me, and I'm gonna look past it, you know, I think it's a look that they're going for...
"So if you were actually printing these colors, and they were going to mesh in any way, you would want them at different angles, where the dots would overlap, you can't have them at the same angle, and here all of the half tones, like this blending--this light blue that blends into a dark blue, they're doing that with smaller dots. That''s at the same angle as every other color on the playfield, and that bothers me a little bit. Like a standard print angle is 45 degrees. Well, this is not 45 degrees. They lined up the dots in the same angle as the lane. So it's very much, it's an artistic thing they're doing. And it's fine, it's fine, it's just in an actual print environment, it's not right. It's not glaring, I see they're going for a look here, it just doesn't really mesh here, it's fine, I'm moving on. There are a few things like that that bother me. They used half-tone dots on the Vincent sling, but not in Jules' sling graphic. Maybe it's going to get aligned for production and they were just trying different ways for now."