Custom Cover Art Thread

[Riddler The Slag]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Well Earned Speech

Well said. It baffles me that the world has gotten to a sort-of self-entitlement mindframe.

A little common courtesy speaks volumes and does in fact go a long way!

[jimjimmyjones85]

Originally Posted by WorkShed

Whelp, now we'll have to see how many people re-upload their customs...

Hopefully, we get those Bond covers back on this thread!

Originally Posted by DrrnHarr

What happened to three months of covers?

Originally Posted by Dynamo of Eternia

The entire website had a major data loss yesterday (and the site was down most of the day yesterday), including all forum posts between April 15th and the time that the site went down yesterday.

Here's a link to the info from the main page regarding what happened:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=8895

Well that explains that.

Nissen... email sent.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by DrrnHarr

What happened to three months of covers?

I was thinking of you the other day mate. All those wonderful Bond cover posts.

I blame SPECTRE....

[Riddler The Slag]

When and if Ghostbusters II comes out on Blu-Ray, I will be interested in Commissioning someone to do new artwork as I KNOW in my heart of hearts that the studio will suck at releasing a great cover as they did with the original a few years back.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by chip75

I was thinking of you the other day mate. All those wonderful Bond cover posts.

I blame SPECTRE....

Well they are all up on customaniacs

[DrrnHarr]

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And in a work in progress for the Bond 50 set (which will feature a “Bonus Disc”):

Click on Spoiler tag to see larger versions.

[Nissen]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

Okay, I can see that. To me it's very much a part of the art nouveau movement from the late 19th/early 20th century, and as such has a really different "flavor" (tophats and boneshaker bicycles and such), but the titles to the 1981 John Boorman movie Excalibur use a similar font, so obviously someone else makes the association you did.

I knew you'd have a reason, I was just curious about it. I try to spend a lot of time thinking about fonts and typography when I'm doing my covers.

It's a beautiful cover; I love the inlaid repousse designs around the front poster image, which appear to be modeled on the title sequence. Very nice.

Well, you know when they say design is a "language" unto itself, they are talking about those associations and what they trigger in people.
As you pointed out, those associations aren't always universal, so mastering that "language" is the sign of a master designer, which I am not, yet.

[Hubunkey]

hey i am looking for someone who would be kind enough to help me out with figuring out how to print covers on my hp deskjet 2050 using undercoverxp. everytime i print a cover it comes out way to small to fit in the blu-ray case. please pm if you can help me figure this out and i will paypal anyone $10 after i get it working correctly that helps me figure this out

Ok figured it out but still having trouble printing criterion sized blu-ray covers

[jayturner514]

I need some help. I'm going to buy a 3disc case and put the 'bourne' trilogy in to conserve space on my shelf. I've found the artwork that I would like to use but its not a good enough quality pic to actually print it out and use. Also, like the previous post, I don't know anything about printing out the right size. Here is a link to a website that has the pic/layout I want to use...
http://www.cwer.ru/node/269517/

Any help would be appreciated.

[Hubunkey]

Originally Posted by jayturner514

I need some help. I'm going to buy a 3disc case and put the 'bourne' trilogy in to conserve space on my shelf. I've found the artwork that I would like to use but its not a good enough quality pic to actually print it out and use. Also, like the previous post, I don't know anything about printing out the right size. Here is a link to a website that has the pic/layout I want to use...
http://www.cwer.ru/node/269517/

Any help would be appreciated.

You got a PM

[K i r a]

I've asked this before, but didn't see any quoted reply:

How do I go about printing custom Criterion-sized covers? Undercover XP is great for regular sized BD ones, but Criterions are a little bigger.

I used Windows Photo Viewer, and set to Landscape and all, and although the height was right, the length was a little wider by a few mm.

Any tips would be great.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by K i r a

I've asked this before, but didn't see any quoted reply:

How do I go about printing custom Criterion-sized covers? Undercover XP is great for regular sized BD ones, but Criterions are a little bigger.

I used Windows Photo Viewer, and set to Landscape and all, and although the height was right, the length was a little wider by a few mm.

Any tips would be great.

UndercoverXP allows you to create a new printing job.

I did this myself because they didn't have a Viva Elite 5-disc case on the pre-loaded list of jobs available from the drop-down menu.

You create the new printing job with the dimensions you need and then save it using a name you will remember (mine is called Viva Elite 5 Disc). This is a crucial step because the next time you need to print one that size you just click on the saved job in the drop-down menu.

By the way, if anyone needs the settings of the Viva Elite 5-disc (which also works for the 6-disc and 4-disc) shoot me a PM with an e-mail address and I'll send you a screencap of the settings.

Hope that helps

[punking]

I love all the covers that people take the time to design here. They often put the studios to shame.

I've always wanted to create covers that have a simple spine with the title, studio logo, and the year of the film's cinematic debut on the spine. Every film would have these details in the same place (although the title font would be individual to the film) and they'd be in the same kind of case (preferably a criterion style case, but that's costly).

Then I could shelve chronologically:

The shelves would show the evolution of cinema. You could see trends like the arrival of the summer blockbusters.

When you get to film released in your own lifetime you would be able to see what films came out when you were,say, ten years old, etc.

Perhaps the year could be have a colored square behind it that represents a genre like Westerns or Romantic Comedy. This would let you see at a glance how the genres changed through the years.

I can only imagine how expensive this would be to do, but maybe I'll get around to it one day.

[punking]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

That would be kind of neat. The problem is in categorizing things; is Alien horror or science fiction? Is Hot Fuzz action or comedy? I guess you could have more than one "logo" for the genre, but that gets blurry pretty quickly.

You're right. It might end up looking like one of those painting color charts. "Yellow is comedy, but browny yellow is comedy with a bit of horror"

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

Hey Drrn, can you put spoiler tags around that wall of covers when you post it? Or leave one "clear" and then spoiler the rest? It's kind of annoying when it loads.

How's that Imrahil?

Originally Posted by punking

I love all the covers that people take the time to design here. They often put the studios to shame.

I've always wanted to create covers that have a simple spine with the title, studio logo, and the year of the film's cinematic debut on the spine. Every film would have these details in the same place (although the title font would be individual to the film) and they'd be in the same kind of case (preferably a criterion style case, but that's costly).

Then I could shelve chronologically:

The shelves would show the evolution of cinema. You could see trends like the arrival of the summer blockbusters.

When you get to film released in your own lifetime you would be able to see what films came out when you were,say, ten years old, etc.

Perhaps the year could be have a colored square behind it that represents a genre like Westerns or Romantic Comedy. This would let you see at a glance how the genres changed through the years.

I can only imagine how expensive this would be to do, but maybe I'll get around to it one day.

Personally speaking that's not how I would arrange my shelf, I like to have my series of films together. For example I like to see all my James Bond 007 movies together on the shelf instead of spread out all over the place.

I also put the year for 2006's "Casino Royale" on the spine to distinguish it from the 1967 debacle and people complained so much that I removed it.

[punking]

Originally Posted by DrrnHarr

For example I like to see all my James Bond 007 movies together on the shelf instead of spread out all over the place..

That's how I have them now and that's how most people would have it, but I just thought it'd be interesting the other way. For example with the Bond series you could see how it's changed to what films were being released around that time. Moonraker (1979) would have Alien and Star Trek near it and a couple of years earlier would be Star Wars and Close Encounters.

[Hubunkey]

If anyone is in need of a few custom covers printed feel free to shoot me an e-mail and I will print them out for you and mail them. I would need a little money to cover shipping and the cost or paper and ink but nothing for my time or anything. I use HP glossy paper and they look great printed. If you want them inside a case I can do that also

[roguescribner]

Originally Posted by wacko

i'm looking for a lethal weapon collection cover that fits a slim 5-disc elite case.. :d

someone please help me get rid of the horrendous uk cover art!

+ 1

[filmaddict]

Can anyone help me with finding or make the resident and the ward bluray cover.I bought these two blurays off amazon but didnt realize after i bought them they sent them in dvd packing which was really annoying.If anyone could help me out with this i would greatly appreciate it

[Hubunkey]

I need the height and width of a custom criterion blu-ray cover in mm please.