[DVD Cover] Half-Life 2

[Lexcyn]

I know a lot of you are going to be downloading Half-Life 2 and Counter Strike via Steam, so I figured people would want to make a backup of their cache files. Anyways, here's something I made over the past couple of days.

Enjoy. :happy:

DVD Case Insert

Low quality: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/dev...aseCleanLow.jpg

High quality: http://cgi.assimulator.plus.com/devinlamot...(clean)(90).jpg

High quality: http://www.swooneyspurs.pk-designs.com/ima...e2-DVD-Case.jpg

DVD Case Insert (German)

Low quality: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/dev...n-GermanLow.jpg

High quality: http://www.swooneyspurs.pk-designs.com/ima...Case-German.jpg

DVD Label

Low quality: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/dev...DLabelClean.jpg

High quality: http://cgi.assimulator.plus.com/devinlamot...l%20(clean).jpg

High quality: http://www.swooneyspurs.pk-designs.com/ima...2-DVD-Label.jpg

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[update] - 10/3/04: Fixed spelling and grammar errors on DVD Case

[update] - 10/4/04: New copyright-clean versions are up in low quality

[update] - 10/5/04: High quality versions are up!

[update] - 10/9/04: Fixed DVD Label

[update] - 11/4/04: Added German version

Thanks to karma_police for the mirror!

Thanks to timsweb for the mirror!

http://cgi.assimulator.plus.com

Edited November 4, 2004 by devinlamothe

[Lexcyn]

Cryptic_Night: PM me or go on MSN. :p

LoL, some German site stole my cover:

http://www.hlportal.de/?site=image&do=show...e&image_id=2483

[Eli]

devinlamothe: How about a 12 foot banner with hanging 3D headcrabs? :p

[Lexcyn]

Sorry, my HD died. Can't reply till I get my warantee. :(

[gigapixels Veteran]

The Cover is very nice, but a little bit objectionable  :happy:

So I created another Version:

http://www.total-reality.de/misc/Gay-Life.jpg

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Great first post... Way to make a first impression :no:

Anyway, very well done (Y). I don't understand why Valve doesn't want their stuff on there; you've done such a great job that it could improve their image ;)

[Eli]

They just don't want someone going around saying "OMG I HVAE TEH REEL CVR ART OMG WTF LOL!!!1!!!1one" and then they have to do 'damage control'

Plus people would go "The authenticy(sp?) is on the image so it MUST be real"

Anyways, I really hope valve pays my old buddy and uses his artwork. Cause it would be a smart choice in the end. That stuff is dead sexy.

[Lexcyn]

Yeah. If all of their logo's and trademarks are on it, people think it was made by then, when it really wasn't. I respect that, so I took them off.

Cryptic_Night, I wish they would hire me on as a graphic designer... or even VuG... because we all know how much everyone loves VuG. lol. :laugh:

[Eli]

Work for the guy who's making Windows "Florida" in the W.I.P section of Customizing Windows. :whistle:

[Lexcyn]

Work for the guy who's making Windows "Florida" in the W.I.P section of Customizing Windows. :whistle:

584737930[/snapback]

LOL... off topic much? :rofl:

Anyhow... I should be finished making the HL2 CD Labels pretty soon. I just have to wait for my new hard drive. :pinch:

[Eli]

Yes...Back on Topic.....

How many CD covers would you have to make. And for an idea....make it like a scrolling picture. So when you place all the CDs down on the table in a row it forms the big piccture.

Another Idea: Place them in the order of the spelling "HL:2 CS:S" if it was 6 CD's. So when they put the CD's in order, you get a cool image like thingy.

Just ideas.

[Lexcyn]

The game was already confirmed to have six CDs, or one DVD. I'm not so sure about the scrolling picture idea, as that would be somewhat awkward I'd find. I'm going to re-design the DVD Label, though, as I don't really like how plain it is.

[l337vegeta]

Sorry, my HD died. Can't reply till I get my warantee. sad.gif

arg that sucks. hope they don't give you too much crap about it. thanks for the labels btw :)

[b0zm4g]

Awesome :D

[james_french]

wow...mate those are really nice....ok all i need now is a colour laser printer and some nice glossy paper!

[Lare2]

Nice work thanks dude.

[grid001]

The Cover is very nice, but a little bit objectionable  :happy:

So I created another Version:

http://www.total-reality.de/misc/Gay-Life.jpg

584689010[/snapback]

how about being a little more original and a MORE mature :pinch:

[Ivan Kot]

good job, that's what i say :D :D :D

[zachman123]

Sorry but I'm unable to host the pics for now as my host (who was giving me free hosting) yelled at me for using 15gigs a month of bandwidth. As it was the only thing that was on my site, shows how popular your labels are Devin :D. Anyways, since I know how high the demand is I'm looking for another host to use up :p. I thought about hosting on my own comp but I don't think sbc would like that, so you'll just have to use the mirror for now.

[Lexcyn]

Sorry but I'm unable to host the pics for now as my host (who was giving me free hosting) yelled at me for using 15gigs a month of bandwidth.  As it was the only thing that was on my site, shows how popular your labels are Devin :D.  Anyways, since I know how high the demand is I'm looking for another host to use up :p.  I thought about hosting on my own comp but I don't think sbc would like that, so you'll just have to use the mirror for now.

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No prob! I have my own hosting now, so it's all good. :)

[Lexcyn]

This is just an update...

My main high quality mirror is down... so that means only the low quality versions are up.

Also, this cover is going to be featured in the next PC Gamer UK.

:yes:

[Obraxis]

Also, this cover is going to be featured in the next PC Gamer UK.

:yes:

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Great news man :D - Just make sure Valve don't mind eh? ;)

Oh, and where's my HL:S, DOD:S, and CS;S covers aswell? :whistle: :p

[l337vegeta]

Also, this cover is going to be featured in the next PC Gamer UK.

that's awesome! congrats :D :D

[Lexcyn]

Great news man :D  - Just make sure Valve don't mind eh? ;)

Oh, and where's my HL:S, DOD:S, and CS;S covers aswell?  :whistle:  :p

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lol, I'm working on it! :blush: Just finished midterms, so I should be all set. :yes:

[Hankyone]

i like :D

exept the gay-life from stranger :pinch:

[Lexcyn]

Yep, if all goes well I'd post you out a copy of the finished mag.

However, Valve misunderstood what we were asking at first, and now that

they do they say it's 'probably best' for us not to do it. I think we're

going to show them the modified version just to check, but at the moment

it looks like it's off. Sorry about that. We'll still point people to

the URL of your case design for them to get it from the net.

*tear* I think VALVe is a little over protective. I mean, who would honestly think you would get the FULL version of Half-Life 2 in PC Gamer? :pinch:

[Lare2]

^^ me thinks the same, Nice work.