Split screener Mode1 : Nagel Girl

[MacDeath]

Gweetingz evry wones.

Juste released a new waïfu which is a port from some Patrick Nagel artwork.

Was traced manually to fit the lowrez of those old machines.

Tool used : paintdotnet
convimgCPC+SplitEditor and last convertion into executable all by Demoniak/ Impact.



Patrick Nagel was a well known popartist who litterally defined the 80s style.
His "pinups" were often traced from Vogue magazine with a typical ligne clair and limited palette, his white girls being what computer graphic design would be just few years later.

He died stupidly trying to do sport, as he was probably a lot into cocaïne...
in 1984 just when the Macintosh and the Amstrad CPC were being born...

His art style seems made for Mode1 and Amstrad CPC, via some helps from rasters and splits effects, or MsDos EGA / 640x480x16 VGA.

Posted here : the mockup in glorious multicolour, a simplified 4 colours only screen, and the dsk fro the full colour version.


Enjoy.

Plz if you can test it on real hardwere, don't hesitate to post screenshots so I can see how it works or not on real hardware/various monitors.

[lmimmfn]

Looks great, would be good also if you could include a pic of the original.

[poulette73]

Hello,

Thank you very much for this transfer, and the story of Patrick Nagel that I didn't know.
Here's the result on a 6128 with a 15" LG TFT screen:



The photo gives an impression of faded colors, but the colors are more beautiful in real!

[MacDeath]

Looks great, would be good also if you could include a pic of the original.

Sure. sadly we mostly find pisspoor quality jpgs on the net, because those are often sold as quality print wall hangers, they won't put HD wallpapers so people can print themself.

Nagel did a lot of commissions to Playboy magazine in the late 70s / early 80s, did some advertisements as well and sold serigraphies and quality prints, litterally printing money.

His tyle was often used in computing magazines from the early/mid80s I would say.
On some of his artworks you can recognize famous models from the time, girls like Isabella rosselini, perhaps Ines de la Fressange, Farida Khelfa or Ornella Mutti... as ge would more than often just rip off from magazine like Vogue from 1979 to 1983...

[MacDeath]

also I would say his series with Feline/panthers were perhaps of some influance on a game like Wild Street.

[Prodatron]

Looks great on a real CTM644 as well!

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[MacDeath]

hi Prodatron, hope the jet lag from BND coding party is over for you.    thx for the screeners.

It confirms I should aim for some slightly lesser vertical resolution on the next ones... 384x264 should be fine.
Also i shouldn't put baby in a corner.

your monitor is crisp and sharp and your camera well set for screeners.

[dodogildo]

Sony PVM 14 inch

[MacDeath]

Is this some high end Sony monitor ?

Weren't those used in audio-visual industry ?

thx for the screener.

[dodogildo]

Yes, PVM monitors dominated the broadcast industry back in the day. Most have dedicated RGB inputs and great picture quality, thus very handy for retro hardware. 

[MacDeath]

those were at least 10x or even 20x time more expensive than CPC's CTM cheap bulb TV. 

[Devlin]

I had to install a new camera app just to get a decent pic of my CRT.

Schneider TV-VCR combo thing (SVTV1451) which might also have been sold as a grundig.

[MacDeath]

Thx Devlin. Your monitor looks good too and displays most of the "overscan" zone.
We only see a thin black line on the top that is missing on the bottom but really not a lot of missing pixels beside the corners. 

I would be curious to see a C64 doing this...
would need heavy use of sprites I guess as while many surface have only one colour, some characters/details have 3 to 4 colours, all the outline has to be sprited and the fullscreen may also be a bit limited on c64 (done only via sprites ?).

Palette would be greyisher but would be ok I guess.