Custom Cover Art Thread

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Congrats on pulling off a major undertaking, and with style!

How you gonna celebrate?

Hmmm...this afternoon after getting home from work I was left with a quandry -- what to do with all the free time that had been occupied with doing the Bond custom covers.

I decided to start work on the Star Wars custom I mentioned a couple of pages back. Its got its own set of challenges in that the three horizontal posters I am using have different dimensions. But being the UK posters for the movies the nostalgia value is high.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by UUUUGGGGHHHH

It looks bad though to have the year on there. It really does. I think the spine number of 21 does away with any confusion. One thing you might want to try is putting the year on all of the spines, horizontally, down at the bottom underneath the line that goes underneath each Bond's face. That would look good, methinks.



The picture of Daniel Craig on the front of this looks out of proportion. His face looks really squished (or stretched, depending on which direction we're talking.) Double check it, I think you'll see that I'm right. And if the girl is attached to him in the source picture, then she's out of proportion too, but she doesn't really look it.

I do note that the person putting together the credits made a gaffe. They listed Martin Campbell as the Director. I will redo the credits myself rather than use credits downloaded from one of the sites that generates credits for movies.

I checked the proportions. They are correct so the fault must be with the poster I used.

[tkdkid717]

Where do they offer downloadable credits?

[Torrente]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Oh, I agree. However, it's not on my dancecard at the moment. But I do take commissions :-)

Nice!

Thanks for your answer Nissen.

[DrrnHarr]

All the covers (except QoS) are uploaded to EuphoricFX.

I have to fix that error in the credits and then I will upload QoS. I'm in no hurry especially since I don't own the QoS blu-ray.

I heard that the director Marc Forster had recorded an audio commentary before the QoS blu-ray was released in 2009 so I am willing to wait for the collector's edition in 2012.

[DrrnHarr]

James Bond
Links to uploads:

DN: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43803
FRWL: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43804
GF: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43805
TB: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43806
YOLT: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43807
CR: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43808
OHMSS: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43809
DAF: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43810
LALD: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43811
TMWTGG: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43812
TSWLM: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43813
MR: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43814
FYEO: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43815
OCT: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43816
NSNA: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43817
AVTAK: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43818
TLD: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43825
LTK: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43819
GE: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43820
TND: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43821
TWINE: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43822
DAD: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43823
CR: http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43824

[DrrnHarr]

Rough draft of my "Star Wars" Blu-ray custom cover for compiling the theatrical release DVDs and the Bonus Materials disc to sit in a 4-disc Viva Elite case alongside the recent official release.

Since the official release omitted the quite excellent "Empire of Dreams" documentary I decided to include that here.



Please note this is a WIP.

[Talyn]

I love the back cover!

[G:Box]

Hey buddy, I'm sorry i didn't speak sooner, but i noticed that your synopsis never are justified. may something you want to look into. Overall, good job!

[FC4L]

Just an update on my Star Wars customs. I've begun uploading them to EuphoricFX but I have to do them 1 at a time and it's been time consuming so they aren't all up yet. Here's the first set. I will update my original cover post with all the links.

http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43826
http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43833
http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43834
http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43835
http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43836
http://www.euphoricfx.org/coverart/d...php?pos=-43837

[lkmg]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

Haha, lots of overlap today with EFX.

Here are my latest:

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Conan the Barbarian:


Conan the Destroyer:


Conan: the Collection

These are available in both US and International versions on Euphoricfx.org.

These took me a LONG time. I spent a great deal of time on "Barbarian" making the Thulsa Doom "snakes" logo and then searching for pictures of the barbarians--there weren't many--so I eventually settled on small silhouettes. I'm particularly proud of the little Thulsa Doom, which was made from a picture of him waist-up superimposed over a horse silhouette. I think it works quite well. The front cover features the centerpiece of the theatrical poster, but I actually went and found a different Vallejo poster for the "fire" background--the theatrical fades too quickly to black for my taste, and I wanted the painting to match, so Boris provided me with some flames. I did the flames on the back from scratch (and learned about gradient masks, but have since forgotten how to use them...doh).

For Destroyer, I wanted a complementary look; I wasn't going for frost or ice per se, but crystals (evoking the crystal chamber where he fights the sorcerer), and I think it works fairly well. It's interesting compared with Barbarian, anyway, and to complete the theme I cooled off the "CONAN" logo on the front as well. Each spine has a different sword (his father's sword on Barbarian vs the Atlantean sword on Destroyer) and I added Dagoth the Dreaming God to the back, with Bombaata's mace to help balance it out.

The collection is largely just a couple of Frazetta paintings; the front features Arnie pasted in from an early teaser which was almost this exact painting just redone to show Arnie, so I went back to the Frazetta. The back is just general mayhem; I tried to blend the color palette so it works together, and added a slight silhouette of the Wheel of Pain to the back to keep the "circular object in the center of the back cover" kind of thing I had going on the first two.

Anyway, here they are!

I like them.

[Jutty]

DrrnHarr..
love the star wars custom cover... i wanna copy when youre finished,,

.. meant that in a nice way

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

Pretty awesome seeing them all together like this.

All of them except for QoS are up on EuphoricFX.

As for the montage, I was trying to figure out a way of showcasing them and decided this method would work best. It gives a snap-shot overview.

I love all 3 of your Conan covers Imrahil.

Originally Posted by Jutty

DrrnHarr..
love the star wars custom cover... i wanna copy when youre finished,,

It will be uploaded to EuphoricFX for everyone to download if they choose.

[zerb]

Looking for a Saw collection art for a six disc case, does anyone have it? Appreciated!

[K i r a]

Can anyone who has the time make a Blu-ray sized custom cover for Space Jam using this DVD cover as the base. Change specifications to whatever genric sounding Blu-ray specs; don't mind if the audio is listed as DTS-HD MA when it's regular. Just want the cover and back to be a resized replica, please.

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Shit. Just saw it big, and it's in Spanish. English, please. Sorry. I only used that link for it's high resolution.

[DrrnHarr]

Some minor alterations.



I was going to change the font to Franklin Gothic Medium since that was the font used in the movies, but I really didn't like the look of it.

[WorkShed]

Originally Posted by DrrnHarr

Some minor alterations.

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I was going to change the font to Franklin Gothic Medium since that was the font used in the movies, but I really didn't like the look of it.

Also, you might want to change the front cover poster art of "Star Wars" with the other famous poster art, considering the quads on the back cover contain different art than the front cover.

Just my two cents.

Here's a HR version of that poster here...

http://ygg.nu/images/sw/anh_quick_satanika.jpg

Here's a giant-size version of a different scan...

http://img7.imagebanana.com/img/qql0...h_filtered.jpg

[Scorpion Soldier]

Working on custom slips/combo packs for the first 3 Pirates movies. Started out with Pirates 3 first to test out the template i made based on existing releases.

[G:Box]

Originally Posted by Scorpion Soldier

Working on custom slips/combo packs for the first 3 Pirates movies. Started out with Pirates 3 first to test out the template i made based on existing releases.

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How are you going to print them?

[Scorpion Soldier]

Originally Posted by MrGBox

How are you going to print them?

Still looking for ideas. Going to look for a new printer for the covers themselves first. Not sure yet how i'll do it, but i'm definitely gonna try!

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

Really nice! I love the maroon background--these covers always seem so colorless to me. Really nice presentation too--you make your own 3D template to show off your covers?

When i show off custom slipcovers i usually copy the main image and do the perspective myself. When i picture the BD case itself i currently use stock pictures, gonna work on some 3D models of the cases though so i can use those.