After a few days tinkering with my game engine, I''ve actually started on my RetroRemakes 2008 Competition entry.
I'm doing a remake of Bank Panic (one of my fave arcade games that I never actually played untl MAME came along). Anyway, as I can't draw I decided to have a play with using vector graphics for everything, and here's the results of 4 hours of experimentation with Inkscape trying to do the money bag logo:
Original for comparison:
I think I need to get a bit more practice in before I start trying to make the main characters (rotoscoping FTW). ;)
I'm doing a remake of Bank Panic (one of my fave arcade games that I never actually played untl MAME came along). Anyway, as I can't draw I decided to have a play with using vector graphics for everything, and here's the results of 4 hours of experimentation with Inkscape trying to do the money bag logo:
Original for comparison:
I think I need to get a bit more practice in before I start trying to make the main characters (rotoscoping FTW). ;)