Good as usual. A lot of skill and work went into this.
But as R-Type said it's not very clear. For me the picture is too busy. You made a big effort to put every possible colour combination on the screen but maybe if it was simpler, less lavish and baroque then it would look even better.
And I would have no idea that there is some old man in the background if I didn't know it before :)
As I said, it is one of the most difficult screens. It has been a challenge. The Azpiri's work is usually very detailed and "baroque", and on this cover this reaches its maximum degree. So if the idea is to try to represent the "spirit" of the original work, in detail, color and forms, the result will be necessarily not very clear, due to the graphic limitations of the Spectrum. I preferred this option instead to give up fidelity.
Also - I can't make out the old geezer's face in either version!
I'm afraid it's impossible to put enough details to make it recognizable in the available size. :(
That's why all you can do is look for a combination of pixels that get as close as possible.
Also for this reason, the girl is slightly larger on my screen than on the original cover of Azpiri. If it were a little smaller, then the face would lose atractiveness and it would not look like her.
Yes, It is the cost of not giving up representing everything that Azpiri put in the illustration. Normally, in the fidelity vs. clarity dilemma, I prefer fidelity. On other screens like Gauntlet or Cauldron II, I haven't had this problem, because are much simpler images.
However, Alfonso Borro's original screen doesn't seem to get much more clarity, for example, the girl doesn't distinguish well, nor does the prof. Lidenbrock, who almost looks like a dwarf or a monkey raised up on the pick that carries the main character. :)
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2616449/spectrum/Viaje.scr
http://zx-pk.ru/
Also - I can't make out the old geezer's face in either version!
(Can't be all compliments! :-p)
But as R-Type said it's not very clear. For me the picture is too busy. You made a big effort to put every possible colour combination on the screen but maybe if it was simpler, less lavish and baroque then it would look even better.
And I would have no idea that there is some old man in the background if I didn't know it before :)
Timex 2048 & divIDE 57c
As I said, it is one of the most difficult screens. It has been a challenge. The Azpiri's work is usually very detailed and "baroque", and on this cover this reaches its maximum degree. So if the idea is to try to represent the "spirit" of the original work, in detail, color and forms, the result will be necessarily not very clear, due to the graphic limitations of the Spectrum. I preferred this option instead to give up fidelity.
I'm afraid it's impossible to put enough details to make it recognizable in the available size. :(
That's why all you can do is look for a combination of pixels that get as close as possible.
Also for this reason, the girl is slightly larger on my screen than on the original cover of Azpiri. If it were a little smaller, then the face would lose atractiveness and it would not look like her.
As a conversion of the original artwork it's fantastic, but that in itself is not ideally suited to a small image like a Spectrum screen.
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However, Alfonso Borro's original screen doesn't seem to get much more clarity, for example, the girl doesn't distinguish well, nor does the prof. Lidenbrock, who almost looks like a dwarf or a monkey raised up on the pick that carries the main character. :)
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/viaje2_zpsdkpr6krv.gif
It's a gift.
(Kidding, I had a go but have to agree).
Great job! :)
But... by all hell, what happened to the colors? And the pixels (aren't squares)?
A little improverment, this is the definitive screen:
Here is the .scr file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2616449/spectrum/viaje2.scr
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2616449/spectrum/viaje_e.scr
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