2022-23 New Goalie Equipment and Masks

[hockeyfanOU812]

Kind of on-topic, but whenever I see these flat front pads with graphics designed to imitate old-school style pad rolls it brings me back to my days designing custom mod graphics for games like NHL 2004 etc. on PC.

We used to have blank goalie pad templates, that we opened in photoshop and used reference photos found online and the paintbrush to copy the main design, then add a new layer and use white and dark lines but blurred to mimic the lighting and shadow that defined the "roll" of the pad in order to give it a 3-D look. It's interesting to see a similar technique being applied in real life as a design choice, rather than a necessity of trying to unflatten a 2-D image for a video game.

I'm sure there's at least one person out there who remembers the NHL on PC modding community. Even today there are modders still creating jerseys + pads for 2004 as far as I know.

For reference this is how good some artists were at taking a completely flat picture and with some artistry turning it into a believable 3-D goalie pad (by early 2000's standards anyway).

 

[bigwoz62]

Kind of on-topic, but whenever I see these flat front pads with graphics designed to imitate old-school style pad rolls it brings me back to my days designing custom mod graphics for games like NHL 2004 etc. on PC.

We used to have blank goalie pad templates, that we opened in photoshop and used reference photos found online and the paintbrush to copy the main design, then add a new layer and use white and dark lines but blurred to mimic the lighting and shadow that defined the "roll" of the pad in order to give it a 3-D look. It's interesting to see a similar technique being applied in real life as a design choice, rather than a necessity of trying to unflatten a 2-D image for a video game.

I'm sure there's at least one person out there who remembers the NHL on PC modding community. Even today there are modders still creating jerseys + pads for 2004 as far as I know.

For reference this is how good some artists were at taking a completely flat picture and with some artistry turning it into a believable 3-D goalie pad (by early 2000's standards anyway).

OMG yes!
I miss those days.
There were a few creators out there that were better than DaveArt.
My NHL was damn sexy back then. Now in 23 I have to search for best fit masks

 

[Satans Hockey]

 

[Hockeyfan2390]

 

[biturbo19]

If Khabibulin and Eddie Belfour had a baby, that got attacked by a swarm of lens flairs and then beaten with an ugly stick.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Oddbob]

Way to completely rip off Belfour's mask.

 

[Jim Bob]

Way to completely rip off Belfour's mask.

And Khabibulin's mask...

 

[S E P H]

That's something new that Dave brought to the fold, an "incomplete" samurai helmet mask with a huge star and sword secondary logo glued onto one of the sides.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[beedee]

Love that he uses the Cheater cage instead of the Cat Eye!

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Goalie_Bob]

Do they mean it should be set on fire? That is about as plain and boring as one can get.

 

[Zenos]

Kind of on-topic, but whenever I see these flat front pads with graphics designed to imitate old-school style pad rolls it brings me back to my days designing custom mod graphics for games like NHL 2004 etc. on PC.

I used to do that for the NHL 99 to ca. 2003 games... Spent an innordinate amount of my early / mid teens drawing masks, pads, and uniforms for obscure players and teams. At least I got really good at photoshop

Back in those days, the custom graphics were known as "add-ons". I remember the site TGO being one of the biggest and most frequented. Good times

 

[Oddbob]

Are they seriously wearing Bills jerseys in the game? If so, that is dumb.

 

[Jim Bob]

Are they seriously wearing Bills jerseys in the game? If so, that is dumb.

I believe it was the second season that they did it.

I think it looked cool.

 

[Oddbob]

I believe it was the second season that they did it.

I think it looked cool.

In the AHL it is fine, I thought this was the Sabres, which I would not be fine with. This kind of stuff is for outside the NHL.

 

[Jim Bob]

In the AHL it is fine, I thought this was the Sabres, which I would not be fine with. This kind of stuff is for outside the NHL.

It also helps that the same people that own the Bills and Sabres own the Amerks.

 

[CaptBrannigan]

Do they mean it should be set on fire? That is about as plain and boring as one can get.

Right, it looks like a stock colorway.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Jim Bob]