Uhm...

 

If this was SNES-style pixel art, I would be genuinely impressed.  But this?  It's like five minutes worth of work in photoshop at most...  Not to mention really poorly stretched.

Edited April 30, 201510 yr by Odin Babajic

Uhm... If this was SNES-style pixel art, I would be genuinely impressed.  But this?  It's like five minutes worth of work in photoshop at most...  Not to mention really poorly stretched.

So it isn't good?

Not really.  

So it isn't good?

Well it's nice, but I think what he's saying is that it's something anyone else could do. I think he might have been expecting some kind of pixel art or even a video, but I think that might have been asking for a bit much.

While I kind of agree that these cover arts are pretty common and relatively easy for anyone to make, I so badly wish that Kingdom Hearts came out for the SNES.  It would've made a great game!

What happened to if you don't have anything nice to say don't say it at all?

Yeah, I was expecting 16-bit screenshots or music or something, too. Rather than replicating how KH might look on the SNES, you just replaced the boxart so it has an SNES boarder instead of a PS2's. Not to mention the boarder is crooked, so it looks a little cheap. Here's an example that's a little more refined.

 

 

Now obviously, this is someone's fanfic (though to be fair, I'd totally read a KH fanfic with Terra [FFVI] and Cecil in it), and they also clearly just photoshopped Dissidia/KH official art onto a pretty background, but it still looks clean and so feels more legit. It has a sense of composition with how the characters are positioned, and the title is cleanly positioned in the center, instead of off to the side (because otherwise it would cover something). Also note how the artist allowed Mickey to overlap the "boarder" a bit, without him getting in the way of the logos. In your cover, you're clearly trying to hide the full picture with some (rather untidy) brush tool. You might have lost before you even started because the picture you used is more suited for the vertical PS2 box art, whereas SNES boxart is more horizontal. It would have also been good to have found a cleaner SNES template -- the Super Nintendo logo is grainy compared to the rest, so it's obvious what was added.

 

There. That was a little more constructive.

Once you get past the obvious Photoshop errors, It looks really nice.

What happened to if you don't have anything nice to say don't say it at all?

Whatever happened to constructive criticism?