Custom Cover Art Thread

[Shawn Elestren]

It will never happen. It never even got a legit DVD release.

[Nissen]

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

Hey, all.

I'm designing a poster for an upcoming "Star Wars" convention as a hobby, and I need an insanely hi-res basic star field image. I searched Google like crazy, but even the biggest ones weren't enough, so I decided to ask for one here. Nothing stylized, please; no clouds, galaxies, planets, etc....just the stars. The full dimensions for the finished poster will be 41 x 27 inches, at 300 pixels per inch. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

These are just about the largest I could find. One of them has some Neboulus stars but you can erase them.

http://universe-beauty.com/albums/sp...d-near-M31.jpg

http://naturalearth.springercarto.co.../starfield.jpg

BTW, for a poster, you can easily get away with 150dpi. The big 2m roll-ups I do are printed in 150dpi. They're not fine art prints. A starfield is such a simple graphic, you'd be amazed how much upscaling you can get away with if you can't find anything large enough.

I'm hoping you'll show us the finished piece here, even if it is a bit off-topic.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Nissen

These are just about the largest I could find. One of them has some Neboulus stars but you can erase them.

http://universe-beauty.com/albums/sp...d-near-M31.jpg

http://naturalearth.springercarto.co.../starfield.jpg

BTW, for a poster, you can easily get away with 150dpi. The big 2m roll-ups I do are printed in 150dpi. They're not fine art prints. A starfield is such a simple graphic, you'd be amazed how much upscaling you can get away with if you can't find anything large enough.

I'm hoping you'll show us the finished piece here, even if it is a bit off-topic.

There are also a number of tutorials online concerning how to create a starfield in Photoshop.

I needed such a graphic as a background to my "Star Wars" custom cover (see a couple of pages back) and after not finding what I was looking for online decided to create my own starfield.

[Guydowood]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

Wow, I've never seen that second one; have it in higher-res? I was planning a Stripes cover but the resources for this are pretty much non-existent outside of some lobby cards.

Unfortunately no. And I stumbled across that B-style poster searching for hi-res prints of the original one sheet. I like that one as well.

[Vintrus]

Originally Posted by Shawn Watson

It will never happen. It never even got a legit DVD release.

fraid your wrong mate there is a legit dvd
http://www.amazon.com/Swat-Kats-Radi...7034727&sr=8-1

[Velmeran]

Originally Posted by Vintrus

fraid your wrong mate there is a legit dvd
http://www.amazon.com/Swat-Kats-Radi...7034727&sr=8-1

And now that custom cover is associated with the DVD collection on Amazon...

Going to be a lot of confused people over there now.

[Shawn Elestren]

Originally Posted by Vintrus

fraid your wrong mate there is a legit dvd
http://www.amazon.com/Swat-Kats-Radi...7034727&sr=8-1

It's a manufacture on demand DVD-R.

[Vintrus]

Originally Posted by Shawn Watson

It's a manufacture on demand DVD-R.

Thats an official release its one of Warners on demand. here is an official review.
http://swatkats.info/dvds/review

[Moviefan2k4]

Originally Posted by Nissen

These are just about the largest I could find. One of them has some Neboulus stars but you can erase them.

http://universe-beauty.com/albums/sp...d-near-M31.jpg

http://naturalearth.springercarto.co.../starfield.jpg

Thanks, but I could only save one of them. The first came up as "403 - Forbidden".

BTW, for a poster, you can easily get away with 150dpi. The big 2m roll-ups I do are printed in 150dpi. They're not fine art prints. A starfield is such a simple graphic, you'd be amazed how much upscaling you can get away with if you can't find anything large enough.

Thanks for the tip. I guess I'm just used to 300 dpi, after doing covers for so long. Also, you gave me an idea I'd easily have overlooked, otherwise. I can take the biggest one on my hard drive, and use it as a guide with some star-shaped Photoshop brushes, to make my own!

I'm hoping you'll show us the finished piece here, even if it is a bit off-topic.

You can count on it! I'll also be posting it on the convention board itself, so folks can download a copy for their own use.

[jimjimmyjones85]

Originally Posted by DrrnHarr

Thanks Imrahil. I plan to replace the image of Brosnan wholesale.

In a spare moment I decided to throw together a non-007 custom cover. This is quite literally what I had after less than 5 minutes:



Yes, I plan to put the three DVDs with the LaserDisc transfer of the unaltered movies and the Bonus Materials DVD in a 4-disc Viva Elite case and put it alongside the Lucasfilm release of last week on my shelf.

In all likelihood I will replace TESB with this high res image. That way I can get Luke on the poster:


That's my next project after I get done with the James Bond covers.

ANy chance you can do individual pieces as I have the movies in distinct cases. I would love that.

Originally Posted by scottpcusa

That poor, innocent Tauntaun! Why is Lando shooting it in the foot?

He was an after thought. They were not going to have him in the poster and threw him in after. Any poster with him was done after to appease his ego.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by jimjimmyjones85

ANy chance you can do individual pieces as I have the movies in distinct cases. I would love that.

Hmm...I'll see how the multi-pack goers first and if it works out then I'll do individual covers.
Not going to start it really until I get done with the James Bond covers. Speaking of which:

[jimjimmyjones85]

Originally Posted by DrrnHarr

Hmm...I'll see how the multi-pack goers first and if it works out then I'll do individual covers.
Not going to start it really until I get done with the James Bond covers. Speaking of which:

Oh ok. I appreciate it though.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

Two nostalgic covers from the '80s: Airplane!


and Stripes



As always, available at Euphoricfx.org.

Awesome work as always Imrahil!

[Shawn Elestren]

Originally Posted by Vintrus

Thats an official release its one of Warners on demand. here is an official review.
http://swatkats.info/dvds/review

Unless it's released on a retail DVD and available in stores I don't call it legit. It will never appear in sales charts or be included in bundle deals.

[Shawn Elestren]

****ing hell! I just explained that!

I only came on here to post a nice picture I hacked together. Why can't you pedantic, nit-picking bastards just leave it alone?

This is why I hate posting ANYTHING on internet forums. Just **** off, man.

[IronFingaz]

Where's the best place to get hi-res pics of movie posters and stills? Google? I'm looking for some stuff for Star Wars OT.

[ZForce915]

I've been looking to find a replacement Sleeping Beauty cover art file and am coming up short. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[DrrnHarr]

At the end of the day does anyone really care if it received a DVD release or not?

I can name a number of pretty good movies that have yet to be released on DVD - never mind Blu-ray.

[DrrnHarr]

Replaced a low res placeholder image on the back cover with a hi-res photo:



I intentionally used an image of Pierce with a white shirt to increase the amount of white on the page. I replaced the original black around the TV screens with white, cut out Pierce's black suit and increased the size of Pierce's head, then cut out the black bottom of the poster. Cutting out Pierce's suit then required some additinal clone stamp action on Teri and Michelle's dresses and arms.

I then removed the black layer on the TT and placed it on the bottom of the page, making sure that the gray 007 did not cover up any of the image.

Overall the finished result is a lot better than I had hoped for. The posters for TND have the same problem as for GE and TWINE - namely they feature A LOT of black. Thank goodness for Nissen

[lkmg]

Originally Posted by DrrnHarr

Replaced a low res placeholder image on the back cover with a hi-res photo:

[Show spoiler]

I intentionally used an image of Pierce with a white shirt to increase the amount of white on the page. I replaced the original black around the TV screens with white, cut out Pierce's black suit and increased the size of Pierce's head, then cut out the black bottom of the poster. Cutting out Pierce's suit then required some additinal clone stamp action on Teri and Michelle's dresses and arms.

I then removed the black layer on the TT and placed it on the bottom of the page, making sure that the gray 007 did not cover up any of the image.

Overall the finished result is a lot better than I had hoped for. The posters for TND have the same problem as for GE and TWINE - namely they feature A LOT of black. Thank goodness for Nissen

I would suggest you add some colors to the collar instead. The more I look at the pic, the more it looks just Pierce's big head stick on the poster without any shirt. Quite ugly... On the contrary, the other 2 women look quite nice.