Anyone interested in a crazy project?

[unastrike]

Hey guys. Doot-sama suggested that I may be able to find some help within the wonderful PO community.

I'm building a showcase-style arcade cabinet/entertainment center to use in my basement. What I'm looking for is some artwork to use as an overlay on the control panel. Now I could just use a bunch of images found on the net to throw something together, but because of the size of the overlay (4' x 1 1/2' ) I'm looking at something high resolution so it doesn't look like crap.

Here's a rough mock-up of the control panel itself.

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width = 4'
height = 1 1/'

buttons = 1 1/4"
joystick = 3" x 3" area

As you can see, there's a lot of open area available for some artwork. The reason I need the larger surface area is because the control panel is going to be an "island" of sorts... separate from the cabinet. It's gotta be a good size so it's sturdy and doesn't tip when I'm bustin up my friends in Street Fighter.

Here's yet another rough mock-up of the entire thing.

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As far as design is concerned, all I know is that there are going to be a lot of fighters played on this thing. So something with a "vs" theme would be fitting. The only semi-cool idea I had was something like Ryu and Ken on opposite sides of the CP shooting a fireball/beam at one another and having it explode in the open area in the middle... and then some sort of logo dealy... n stuff. Boobs would be good... mmm... peanut butter.

See? That's exactly why I need help. I really, really suck when it comes to stuff like this.

*sigh*

Ummm... what's in it for you? What? Besides the hearty heartfelt thank you? Notta mucho... I'm already over budget with this thing and can afford no monetary incentive. I can, however, offer some sort of goodie bag filled with wild and wacky bonus prizes. Think of a Cracked Out Cracker Jack Box. You'll be kinda close. But seriously, I would greatly appreciate it if someone with the skillz could lend their talent to a hapless idiot with no graphic design ability.

Just think about how proud mom would be.

[Lanfear57]

ill try to hunt down some of my stuff and get back to you later

[Doot]

I've been out of town sir, but now that I'm back. I have a couple of idears.

[unastrike]

Lay 'em on me, sister. I'm finally at the point where I can get the image printed out and laid on the CP. Take a lookee...

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[Doot]

Here goes!

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It's a prelim. For main idea. Can be tweeked easy.

PS - You can click on the image to resize it.

[Sakura]

OH DOOD! How'd you do you that? To click on it to make it bigger and crud? Dood..

[Doot]

Shino set that feature up babe!

[unastrike]

Haha... Now you're helping me both here and back at PSOtakus! Same stuff in both threads..

...that's just a testament of how damn cool you are.

[Doot]

Hehehe Just wanna cover the bases yo.

[Silver Adept]

That's a damn cool logo, Doot! Care to give us the uncut version so that some of us can make shiny wallpapers n' stuff out of it?