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Phantasy Star Universe: Complete box art cover
By avatar D_Nikolaos 28 on May 2nd, 2012

Alright, as most of you might know my first attempts at boxarting were of Phantasy Star Universe, and we all know that they honestly suck in comparison to a lot of boxes here.

This time I really wanted to show some improvement; I wanted to make a completely original Custom Case for PSU/PSU:AoI
And so I steeled myself and got to it, making my own screenshots, rendering everything, typing synopsizes and legal text, as well as making a custom wallpaper to use as the background to the case.

I also decided to make my own logo for this box, and as any Phantasy Star fan can see, it's heavily based on PSO's logo. I decided that trying to recreate the font used in the original PSU's logo would be an increasingly difficult, & almost impossible for me at my current level.

All-in-all I think that this came out rather nicely! XD

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D_Nikolaos 28 [ 1 decade ago ]

Btw major kudos to Throavium and Higashi89, without their help in my WIP thread, I don't think this box would've came out as awesome as it did! XD

Also credit to:
redheadstock (Deviantart) for their Tech Brushes link
z-design (Deviantart) for their Tech Brush set link

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AgentLampshade 46 [ 1 decade ago ]

Came out quite nice. I like it.

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D_Nikolaos 28 [ 1 decade ago ]

Thanks! I'm glad to hear that you like it.

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Throavium 1 [ 1 decade ago ]

I'm glad I could help. This came out good.

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D_Nikolaos 28 [ 1 decade ago ]

Yeah I'm really glad that you guys helped me out with this too, I don't think it would've gotten near this good without it.

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Higashi89 48 [ 1 decade ago ]

So big effort was made with this cover. Why don't you upload the printable? I saw your printable, it was cool. Your custom logo is nice, and fits well with the game's theme. Overall, it's a good box art.

Nothing extraordinary here, but it's pretty and official-looking, and this is just enough for me to put in my favorites.

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D_Nikolaos 28 [ 1 decade ago ]

Alright I'll post a printable version soon, but just so you know, this box wasn't originally made at the correct size or resolution for printing. I was just lucky that when it printed out it ended up looking great even after I re-sized it to Printable size! XD

And that's what I was going for, I wanted it to look official, because I wanted it for my PSU Collection lol

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Higashi89 48 [ 1 decade ago ]

@D_Nikolaos But you know the PS2 versions does not have online anymore, which sucks =(

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D_Nikolaos 28 [ 1 decade ago ]

@Higashi89
Yeah, I know I was disappointing to find that out, but even more so, after I found out that the Xbox versions still has servers online. Either way if I want to play online I could go onto some Blue Burst Private Servers, or wait until PSO2 comes to the US since it will be mostly free to play. ^-^

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Higashi89 48 [ 1 decade ago ]

@D_Nikolaos I used to play Blue Burst, but them I got sick and started to play Skyrim (no arrow to the knee joke)

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Bastart 49 [ 1 decade ago ]

Nice layout on the entire box, well done.

Only a couple minor things though (which doesn't necessary needs changing) but the legal info could be upped a bit and less closer to the barcode and secondly the Online logo on the front seems a bit to big in my opinion.

I never played this game, but it's good to see some more PS2 boxes on here.

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D_Nikolaos 28 [ 1 decade ago ]

Thanks for the compliment on this, I love making PS2 Boxes, since those are the ones I end up needing irl! XD

Actually I agree with you on both accounts.
I had to resize the online logo from a scan of the first PSU's boxart, so it's understandable that I messed up and left it a little too big.

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Bastart 49 [ 1 decade ago ]

@D_Nikolaos It's not really destracting from the overall design, so it not really a big deal, just a nitpick ;)

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Deathmania 38 [ 1 decade ago ]

Looks Outstanding, its astonishing how much you have improved overtime.

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D_Nikolaos 28 [ 1 decade ago ]

Thanks a lot for the positive feedback!
But honestly I wouldn't have gotten this far without everyone here helping me out.

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Martiniii332 49 [ 1 decade ago ]

Nice job. Definitely show improvement.

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Crux Brainchild 2 [ 1 decade ago ]

This came out really awesome -

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D_Nikolaos 28 [ 1 decade ago ]

Thanks, I appreciate the compliment.

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