View Full Version : Who's doing Mixed Martial Arts Fanart and Posters?
Just wondering if anyone is working on these. :nerd:
I created ALMOST every 'wide icon' for MMA listed on mediaicons.org
Now that I have switched over I plan on doing the same if no one else has taken the reins thus far.
Newest MMA fights have priority. UFC, Ultimate Fighter, Ultimate Fight Night, EliteXC, Affliction, WEC, PRIDE, UFC Specials(Bad Blood, Ultimate Knockouts, Iceman DVD, Rampage DVD, Fedor DVD, etc.) are in the plans.
I have EVERY single UFC fight so I will not cherry pick. As far as the rest of the MMA world, I have all the new stuff and alot of the old good stuff. UFC will be done in reverse order.
Requests will be taken by private message if you wish. By request, I will consider creating more than one fanart if source material is good. It would be nice if you could provide me with links or attached pics.
I will aim for 1080 on everything but as past experience creating the MMA icons at 1024x188 made me aware that source material is extremely limited in the early days of UFC.
I have yet to look into it but if possible I will submit images to the scraper I use. I think Im using imdb for movies and tvdb for shows.
Looks like submissions to imdb.com are not possible unless you were involved in creating the movie.
UFC Pay Per View events are now being uploaded to themoviedb.org
UFC 88, 87, and 86 are already up. The Ultimate Fighter Season 8 has been previously submitted by someone else on tvdb.com. Poster and FanArt for Season 8 is available, and they look great too.
I dont think that themoviedb.org can be scraped as of right now. Enjoy downloading manually.
*update*
10.11.08 6.09pm - TUF 7 poster and Fan art are now available on tvdb
10.11.08 6.28pm - TUF 6 poster is available
10.11.08 6.35pm - TUF 5 poster is available
Ive created the UFC Fight Night entry in thetvdb.com. (15) fights were added as specials so you dont actually see much on the main screen. 400x300 icons have been added for most of the fights too. Details and fight date were added as well.
MAKE SURE TO CLICK SPECIALS ON THE RIGHT SIDE!
TheBurner
2008-10-14, 23:14
I would love to have fanart/thumbnails set up for every UFC 1-80+ , Pride all etc... Where are posting these?
I would love to have fanart/thumbnails set up for every UFC 1-80+ , Pride all etc... Where are posting these?
A combination of themoviedb.com and tvdb.com
UFC 88, 87, and 86 are already up on themoviedb.org
Ultimate Fighter and UFC Fight Night is up on thetvdb.com
*UPDATE*
UFC 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77, 76 are now up as well on themoviedb.org
TheBurner
2008-10-16, 18:33
lexbox excellent job!! Are you going all the way back to UFC 1? Quite a job, you doing pride next? Its a nice addition for eye candy. Im wondering how this will work when scanned into library will UFC show up as movies or TV?
lexbox excellent job!! Are you going all the way back to UFC 1? Quite a job, you doing pride next? Its a nice addition for eye candy. Im wondering how this will work when scanned into library will UFC show up as movies or TV?
I will go back to UFC 1 but going back anywhere near that far is going to be difficult with source art. Pride isnt high on my list as I only have 10 or so Pride fights. Not to mention it has now been absolved by the UFC. But I will do Pride eventually.
UFC PPV fights are listed on themoviedb.com so they would show up as movies, unless themoviedb.com yanks them. themoviedb.com CANNOT be scraped at the moment. I hear it is being worked on. Two major sites have merged and it will take some time before their new site can be scraped.
UFC 75, 74, 73, 72, 71, 70, 69, 68, and 67 are now up on themovidedb.org
The WRONG image was loaded for 67. Until it is removed click the next button to get to the correct fan art(there are two). UFC 66 also saw the wrong image uploaded. Hopefully Travis will have the remove request processed by tomorrow. Im done for the night, my apologies.
*update*
Travis has fixed the mishap and everything is fine now.
TheBurner
2008-10-19, 17:44
Lex keep up the awesome work its about time someone did this and you are doing an excellent job
you dont know how long ive been waiting for this
you my friend are freaking awesome :)
UFC 66, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58, 57, and 56 are up now on themoviedb.org
High-res source material is getting scant. Expect for the UFC PPV fights to slow down considerably.
I can only find All Access, Unleashed and Fight Nights up there on TVDB.
Where should I go to search for the PPV fights? The themoviedb.com just comes up with a list of related links and ads.
TheBurner
2008-10-22, 22:19
Uncle b yeah you should try themoviedb.org thats the right url! :)
awesome man! I spent a lot time ripping my UFC DVD's, these covers and backdrops are perfect. Keep up the amazing work!
Uncle b yeah you should try themoviedb.org thats the right url! :)
Oops. I have edited all posts to reflect .org lol
not directly related to the posters and fan art, but how are people here adding their MMA stuff to XBMC? I really don't want my UFC to be under my Movies or TV Shows. Would love to have a UFC link on my main menu that went to only my UFC. I have about 40 of the PPV's ripped to my HD but can't quite figure out the best way to have them come up in XBMC.
If I do file mode I could add a UFC to my movies section I guess, but fan art doesn't come up unless you're in library mode right?
*runs off to try it* lol
TheBurner
2008-10-27, 18:42
quebert let me know what you come up with. My ultimate solution would be having MMA in the main menu and listing all UFC/PRide etc.... with thumbs and fanart. Too bad tvdb took UFC main events off their database i think it would fit better in TV then in movies personally
I will figure something out TheBurner, and while I agree it would be better suited for TV than Movies, I would still prefer to have an MMA only option on my front page. You could always manually create NFO's and set the content to TV and have them come up in the TV section.
TheBurner
2008-10-27, 23:28
True, im with you a front page solution is the best way. What skin do you plan on doing this with? I know there is an option to just enable new naming of buttons on the skins. Then we could just set content to none, and have it file view. I believe a few skins have fanart enabled in file view.
Right now I'm on a 4:3 screen so I use MediaStream, I do like Horizon too though. I hope either a skin, or XBMC itself add's the ability to have a totally customized main menu. Or support for sub menus in library mode. I'm not even sure the difference between file & library mode but for some reason I use library mode the most.
I just want fanart because the UFC fanart is kick ass. I need to look into renaming a button. I don't need the video one - not even sure why it's there lol.
There is a thread running around somewhere and this guy wanted a kid section. He renamed a category and did it that way. I forget which .xml he found it in though.
pseudoheld
2008-12-15, 19:26
wow this is really great!
now my only question is, how do i get XBMC to automatically find and download the art?
when i go to select content i cant chose themoviedb.org
i dont want to add all the images manually seen as my collection is pretty big aswell.
am i missing out on some option? please help!
also if someone could take it upon himself to add the fight cards....wow that would be wicked. couldnt that be implemented somehow? instead of a plot you would see who fought. i keep forgetting who was on wich card so this would really help!
lexbox I noticed this thread has not been bumped for months now and felt it deserved it. Honestly I haven't been messing with XBMC for a few months but I went right back to this thread today and saw the new posters and backdrops - AWESOME WORK!
I have a majority, well over half of the UFC PPV's on my mediabox and I'm about to I get around to organizing them. Your backdrops and cover art it will make it come alive.
I'm back to trying to figure out the most effective way to organize the content. Breaking the PPV's up fight by fight will take a long time and result in a lot of remote "next next next" pressing. One big MKV will result in a lot of fast forwarding and no ability to have fights selectable within a single PPV. I know this has been discussed before, but maybe this bump will bring somebody new into the mix who has suggestions here.
I would like each PPV to have it's own basically season, with each fight selectable with it's own thumbnail, and have it be able to play one ep after another without touching a remote. Seems like accomplishing this in XBMC is more of a task than I had thought :D
Morning!
First, thanks all who has updated the info for the UFC events on themoviedb! It is awesome!
Second, is there a reason why they arent categorized as Sports? XBMC scrapes the info and it says no categories, and I went to themoviedb and they didnt have categories. If they were categorized as sports, then we could just go to Genres and select Sports to get quick access to the UFC files.
Was curious if there was a reason b4 I take the time and update them on themoviedb
Third, What would be really cool if the fight cards were listed in the plot. Anyone else have an issue with that? I know that its free to update, but i dont want to make changes that piss off the masses without consultation.
Cheers!
TheBurner
2009-03-11, 21:37
Fight card info would be awesome!
Hell ya it would be! lol
I noticed that someone has updated the info on TMDB to have a Genre of Sport, but i cant seem to get that info into XBMC. I started with a clean library and set my scraper to TMDB, but its not getting the genre (I have been testing with UFC 96). It still just shows blank. I dont understand cuz the site has that.....maybe thats a question for a new thread, but has anyone else seen this problem?
KrogarBond
2009-03-12, 03:29
It would be great to be able to have a MMA-category at the main menu.
Anyhow, I got a question.
I have my MMA stuff under videos, Im not using library mode.
I have all of the UFC shows in separate folders with fanart.jpg, folder.jpg and filename.tbn for every show in each folder.
So when I browse the folders I see the fanart and the coverart:
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/273/xbmc1.jpg
But when I enter a specific folder I only see the coverart, not the fanart:
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3559/xbmc2.jpg
So, how do I attach the fanart to the video-file like the thumbnail is attach to the file so the fanart shows up also when Im in the folder? Also, is it possible to attach info to the video-file if I would wanna use another view?
thx
pseudoheld
2009-03-12, 20:38
good thing this got bumped again.
i am still trying to find a good way to implement my UFCs in my library. Problem is i dont want them to show up in my movie list (i would have to jump about 70 UFCs to get to the next "U" movie.
it would be great to have a sports blade next to MOVIES, TV SHOWS, MUSIC etc. does anyone know how that could be done??
TheBurner
2009-03-17, 21:11
Im thinking of just having em in file mode instead of library although i would love to have a seperate sports library section, skateboard,snowboard, mma etc...
lonchaney
2009-05-28, 07:21
i'm having the exact opposite problem as KrogarBond...I see the cover art when i hover over the folder of an event and no fan art but when i go into the folder all i see is the fan art and the cover art is gone
did you figure out a solution to your problem?
right now i have fanart.jpg in my ufc folder and then fanart.jpg and folder.jpg in each event's folder
Gamester17
2009-05-28, 15:52
Why not upload these FanArt images to TheTVDB.com (http://www.thetvdb.com) and htbackdrops.com (http://www.htbackdrops.com) (get nuzecast (http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35471) to create a new "Martial Arts" category on htbackdrops.com under 'Generic / Other')?
???
lonchaney
2009-05-28, 22:59
Why not upload these FanArt images to TheTVDB.com (http://www.thetvdb.com) and htbackdrops.com (http://www.htbackdrops.com) (get nuzecast (http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35471) to create a new "Martial Arts" category on htbackdrops.com under 'Generic / Other')?
???
i'm a noob right now when it comes to xbmc but how would doing this help? i have all my mma stuff in file mode and not in my library since i don't want to go through 200+ events when looking through my movies...so since i'm in file mode i can't use a scraper right? i need to manually add the fanart.jpg/cover.jpg to each folder, correct?
Gamester17
2009-05-29, 15:53
Sharing is caring, ...TheTVDB and htbackdrops are community driven websites than are scraped by not only XBMC but many other open source media applications as well.
By having all FanArt and Poster images posted on sites like those means everyone has easy access to them.
:;):
lonchaney
2009-05-29, 20:51
Ok I get that and will upload but I still can't get the fanart to show up in my root ufc folder and the folder.jpg won't show up in the event folders :(