As Amiga CD32 is technically a gaming console I thought it would have been nice to add a proper TVs to the screens catalogue. So let's give a look to the first of the Bezeltron CRT series, freely inspired by the modern CRT model Philips-21PT3326-V7, from the exodus123456 thread on LibRetro forums.
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| Her majesty, the Philips-21PT3326-V7 CRT display |
As you can see it's a pretty unconventional display, somewhat modern and artsy with a golden pedestal, interestingly shaped speakers and almost flat screen. Of course, I had to shove in some bezels as I love realtime reflections and a little bit curvature to add spacial depth!
The funniest part was to retrace ALL of the speakers grid holes, as these are strangely irregular in the IRL counterpart and I wanted to keep this detail intact.
Just kidding, that was boring as hell.
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| Good complex vectors really look like 3D modeling! |
The real fun was to find the right color mesh to reproduce the ambient lightning on the bottom curvature, and the golden shining of external frame and pedestal. It was completely done in vectors, and I'm pretty satisfied with the almost photo-realistic results.
I had to quickly do some tests with Amiga CD32 exclusives!
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Flink on Amiga CD32 & Bezeltron-001
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| Banshee on Amiga CD32 & Bezeltron-001 |
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| Speedball 2 Special Edition on Amiga CD32 & Bezeltron-001 |
After some testing, I found the initial 'RETRON' mark to be too unrealistic and intrusive, so I developed something more reminiscent of the original Trinitron logo coupled with historical three coloured dots. Hence the BezelTron series logo was born, an homage to Mega Bezel Reflections Shader.
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| Exploring claim lettering with pacman-esque vibes |
So with a cleaner font-face and a new ruby-red border, reminiscent of Amiga CD32 family-feeling, here comes the final Bezeltron-001.
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Fightin' Spirit on Amiga CD32 & Bezeltron-001
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