Alright the final project is done. I'll post it again when I can use a real camera instead of my phone.
As I mentioned in the past, all of these are inside jokes, so they aren't meant to be funny to the general public
I rewrote this a few times, in the end i'm just going to use peoples names. Steve and myself (James) worked on this project together and its being given as a gift to our friend Rob.
Top Left = Dan (Street Fighter) "DAN THE MAN"
Self explanatory.
Mid Left = Autobot Logo (Transformers) " AUTOBOT MAN"
Rob is a huge transformers fan
Bot Left = Naruto (Naruto) "RA MAN"
This one is a bit of a stretch. Rob was a naruto fan and loves ramen.
Top Mid = Gears Logo (Gears of War) "CURIOUS MAN"
There is an achievement called Dom Curious. We have a joke where Steve refuses to use Dom since he's 'not' dom curious (insert gay joke).
Mid Mid = Rob (Real Life Friend) "ROBTIMUS MAN"
We took the megaman sprite, gave him some hair, and then put him in an iron man costume. This is due to a comic book he made for Steve where on the final page he came to his rescue in an iron man suit saying ROBTIMUS is on his way. Yes its also a transformers reference.
Bot Mid = Pink Hello Kitty Darth Vader (Star Wars) "WTF MAN"
Pink. Darth Vader. WTF? Exactly. Rob recently went to comic-con where they were selling pink darth vader helmets for breast cancer.
Top Right = Batman (Batman) "BAT MAN"
Duh. We're huge batman fans and went to see the Dark Knight in theatres together. This is our all time #1 movie and Rob and I waited 2 weeks after it came out to see it when our friend Steve came back from over seas. It was a gut wrenching 2 weeks.
Mid Right = Umbrella Corporation (Resident Evil) "RACIST MAN"
This one takes a bit to explain. There was a huge controversy when RE5 came out because it takes place in Africa, and as such all the enemies are dark in skin tone. Our friend Rob felt uneasy shooting black kids, yet had no issue shooting mexican like ones in RE4. This became a running gag against him and we added the Zombie at the bottom of the beads because the game tries to play it off that RE4 and RE5 enemies are NOT zombies....yeah right.
Bot Right = Snake (Metal Gear Solid) "PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER MAN"
Ha, a very long one that feels a little out of place, but we couldn't resist this one. Rob and I played through MGS3 together and all 4 of us sat down for MGS4. Snake says this line to otacon in multiple games (at least in mgs1 and mgs4) and Rob would often use his best gruffy snake voice to say it during most/all scenes. Wherever it was appropriate, as well as every scene where it wasn't.
Overall this was a difficult project. First of all the size/scope of the project. Second of all the measuring to make sure everything was in perfect placement. Steve had to go and mix paint to be just the perfect blue color for the background and surprisingly the lettering was some of the hardest because even though you can't tell from the picture, we double layered them to create a shadow effect that more represents how they are shown in the actual game screen.
Hope you guys enjoy! Steve and I put one hell of a lot of effort into this
