Custom Cover Art Thread

[TripleHBK]

Originally Posted by jaws3dfan

These are the only ones that need Covers:

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) / Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) Double Feature

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) / Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Double Feature

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) / Jason X (2002) Double Feature

I agree that someone should do these for us out of the goodness of their hearts...

Something like this would be fantastic...

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[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Many cover artists have come and gone over the years, and the pattern seems to be that we all lose interest at one point. I've been suffering from a lack of enthusiasm myself this last year, having done well over 400 covers since I started back in 2011

Hi Nissen, I'm already at that point.

I've been using Photoshop this past month to create custom covers for the music, audiobooks (and ebooks) in my iTunes collection. I wanted some uniform dimensions since the different dimensions looked a little muddled (some square, some vertical rectangle, some horizontal rectangle).

Call it my OCD for a uniform look when I open up iTunes.

For the ebooks I used a defunct Fontana books cover design for all the Alistair MacLean ebooks that were the prevailing covers for when I originaly read the books back in the early 1980s. I was able to find some online but many were not available so I had to rebuild them from memory.
Here's an example of the style I'm referring to:



In addition to reworking the images for the song albums and audiobooks I did some audio editing with Audacity and then used a tagging software (MP3Tag) to attach the images and comments to the tracks.

I'm hoping that my hiatus from custom covers will re-energize me to get back in the saddle.

[Imrahil2001]

Yeah, I've also hit a wall. Still doing some PSD work here and there though. Designed some Indy "expanded soundtrack" covers for some of the bootlegs that have floated around, did some Game of Thrones soundtrack customs, etc.

[phraseturner]

Can anyone provide me a scan of the blu-ray cover of Lilo & Stitch? Stupid gohastings sent me the DVD case version. Ugh...

Please PM if you can email the file to me. Thanks!

[Dickieduvet]

Originally Posted by jaws3dfan

These are the only ones that need Covers:

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) / Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) Double Feature

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) / Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Double Feature

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) / Jason X (2002) Double Feature

Would love some of these as that tin is as ugly as hell, No spine title or anything - stoopid!!

[themadbutcher]

Cover for a custom-made "Halloween" collection box set I'm working on. This fits a 10-disc case and the specs on the backs are for the following editions:

[Show spoiler]- Halloween = Anchor Bay 35th Anniversary
- HII - Scream Factory
- HIII - Scream Factory
- H4 = Anchor Bay
- H5 = Anchor Bay
- H6 = Echo Bridge
- H20 = Alliance Pictures
- HR = Echo Bridge
- RZH = Weinstein Company/Alliance Unrated
- RZHII = Weinstein Company/Alliance Unrated

There is no space for the 2nd disc for RZH because I'm including it with other bonus features in its separate case.

This cover will be available for download at Customaniacs.org

[neoz]

Originally Posted by xSCARFACEx

Good work except the season 1 back cover makes Dexter look like he was on a teeny bopper magazine cover. It's his pose

For the love oh God please use spoiler tags next time you quote someone with a bunch of pics.

[cooey]

Any of you talented people have any custom or original cover art for -

* Bullet to the Head
* Hannibal Season 1
* 21 & Over
* No-One Lives

[Nissen]

Sometimes I'm asked to replicate specific covers for sentimental reasons. A client asked me to do these for Batman and Robocop, all of them based on the old UK VHS covers.

Recreating old designs can be both fun and challenging as I have to find or recreate old logos and branding that never existed digitally. With these covers the client wanted to emphasise sentimental value over both consistency and accuracy. While I recreated some of these VHSes exactly, he wanted some of the elements removed for a cleaner look.

As far as possible I try to get the exact same images for the photos on the backs, but for older films some of them plain don't exist on the 'net. That's when my extensive clipping files come in handy and I more often than not can find that particular image and scan it myself.

Often the main headache is that of obtaining good reference for the old VHS covers. If I can find a cover online, most of the time it is too small for the text to be legible. I spend a lot of time trying to decipher text from the miniscule images. Recreating the text also requires me to do some detective work on fonts, but most of the time the old pre-DTP covers were done in easily available fonts. I've had to resort to vaguely similar alternatives from time to time, but that's not for lack of trying. :-)

I'm including the original VHS covers here for comparison.

[jaws3dfan]

Originally Posted by themadbutcher

Cover for a custom-made "Halloween" collection box set I'm working on. This fits a 10-disc case and the specs on the backs are for the following editions:

[Show spoiler]- Halloween = Anchor Bay 35th Anniversary
- HII - Scream Factory
- HIII - Scream Factory
- H4 = Anchor Bay
- H5 = Anchor Bay
- H6 = Echo Bridge
- H20 = Alliance Pictures
- HR = Echo Bridge
- RZH = Weinstein Company/Alliance Unrated
- RZHII = Weinstein Company/Alliance Unrated

There is no space for the 2nd disc for RZH because I'm including it with other bonus features in its separate case.

This cover will be available for download at Customaniacs.org

Very cool cover!!

[Levi86Athan]

Originally Posted by themadbutcher

Cover for a custom-made "Halloween" collection box set I'm working on. This fits a 10-disc case and the specs on the backs are for the following editions:

[Show spoiler]- Halloween = Anchor Bay 35th Anniversary
- HII - Scream Factory
- HIII - Scream Factory
- H4 = Anchor Bay
- H5 = Anchor Bay
- H6 = Echo Bridge
- H20 = Alliance Pictures
- HR = Echo Bridge
- RZH = Weinstein Company/Alliance Unrated
- RZHII = Weinstein Company/Alliance Unrated

There is no space for the 2nd disc for RZH because I'm including it with other bonus features in its separate case.

This cover will be available for download at Customaniacs.org

Looks awesome, really nice job!

[jimjimmyjones85]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Sometimes I'm asked to replicate specific covers for sentimental reasons. A client asked me to do these for Batman and Robocop, all of them based on the old UK VHS covers.

Recreating old designs can be both fun and challenging as I have to find or recreate old logos and branding that never existed digitally. With these covers the client wanted to emphasise sentimental value over both consistency and accuracy. While I recreated some of these VHSes exactly, he wanted some of the elements removed for a cleaner look.

As far as possible I try to get the exact same images for the photos on the backs, but for older films some of them plain don't exist on the 'net. That's when my extensive clipping files come in handy and I more often than not can find that particular image and scan it myself.

Often the main headache is that of obtaining good reference for the old VHS covers. If I can find a cover online, most of the time it is too small for the text to be legible. I spend a lot of time trying to decipher text from the miniscule images. Recreating the text also requires me to do some detective work on fonts, but most of the time the old pre-DTP covers were done in easily available fonts. I've had to resort to vaguely similar alternatives from time to time, but that's not for lack of trying. :-)

I'm including the original VHS covers here for comparison.

This is a beautiful piece !

[admiral_akbar]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Sometimes I'm asked to replicate specific covers for sentimental reasons. A client asked me to do these for Batman and Robocop, all of them based on the old UK VHS covers.

Recreating old designs can be both fun and challenging as I have to find or recreate old logos and branding that never existed digitally. With these covers the client wanted to emphasise sentimental value over both consistency and accuracy. While I recreated some of these VHSes exactly, he wanted some of the elements removed for a cleaner look.

As far as possible I try to get the exact same images for the photos on the backs, but for older films some of them plain don't exist on the 'net. That's when my extensive clipping files come in handy and I more often than not can find that particular image and scan it myself.

Often the main headache is that of obtaining good reference for the old VHS covers. If I can find a cover online, most of the time it is too small for the text to be legible. I spend a lot of time trying to decipher text from the miniscule images. Recreating the text also requires me to do some detective work on fonts, but most of the time the old pre-DTP covers were done in easily available fonts. I've had to resort to vaguely similar alternatives from time to time, but that's not for lack of trying. :-)

I'm including the original VHS covers here for comparison.

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The RoboCop covers are awesome! Would love to have those if they become available to share!

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Sometimes I'm asked to replicate specific covers for sentimental reasons. A client asked me to do these for Batman and Robocop, all of them based on the old UK VHS covers.

I recently gave away a load of VHS tapes to charity but I have a few left over stuff like Men In Black the first two Terminator movies a few Disney, Ransom, US Marshall, The Last Crusade (plus the Indy and Star Wars box sets), the first three Brosnan Bonds, The Matrix, The Devil's Advocate, The Avengers, Matilda, First Contact, Frantic, Dark City, Blade Runner DC, some Disney's, Titanic, The X-Files movie there's a few more there too. If you need any scans I'm happy to help.

Your covers look great as always.

[deathcab6366]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Sometimes I'm asked to replicate specific covers for sentimental reasons. A client asked me to do these for Batman and Robocop, all of them based on the old UK VHS covers.

Recreating old designs can be both fun and challenging as I have to find or recreate old logos and branding that never existed digitally. With these covers the client wanted to emphasise sentimental value over both consistency and accuracy. While I recreated some of these VHSes exactly, he wanted some of the elements removed for a cleaner look.

As far as possible I try to get the exact same images for the photos on the backs, but for older films some of them plain don't exist on the 'net. That's when my extensive clipping files come in handy and I more often than not can find that particular image and scan it myself.

Often the main headache is that of obtaining good reference for the old VHS covers. If I can find a cover online, most of the time it is too small for the text to be legible. I spend a lot of time trying to decipher text from the miniscule images. Recreating the text also requires me to do some detective work on fonts, but most of the time the old pre-DTP covers were done in easily available fonts. I've had to resort to vaguely similar alternatives from time to time, but that's not for lack of trying. :-)

I'm including the original VHS covers here for comparison.

Couldn't agree with you more Nissen. Re-creating VHS covers for Bluray is a challenge and sometimes a real headache, but the end results always come out great.

Keep up the good work!!

[jaws3dfan]

Originally Posted by jaws3dfan

These are the only ones that need Covers:

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) / Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) Double Feature

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) / Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Double Feature

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) / Jason X (2002) Double Feature

Coming Soon!!

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by themadbutcher

Cover for a custom-made "Halloween" collection box set I'm working on. This fits a 10-disc case and the specs on the backs are for the following editions:

[Show spoiler]- Halloween = Anchor Bay 35th Anniversary
- HII - Scream Factory
- HIII - Scream Factory
- H4 = Anchor Bay
- H5 = Anchor Bay
- H6 = Echo Bridge
- H20 = Alliance Pictures
- HR = Echo Bridge
- RZH = Weinstein Company/Alliance Unrated
- RZHII = Weinstein Company/Alliance Unrated

There is no space for the 2nd disc for RZH because I'm including it with other bonus features in its separate case.

This cover will be available for download at Customaniacs.org

Awesome cover, but I'm a bit confused as there's no separate release of H20 from Alliance.

[themadbutcher]

Originally Posted by jstxanothrxstory

Awesome cover, but I'm a bit confused as there's no separate release of H20 from Alliance.

You're right, it's actually for the Triple-Pack of Curse, H20 and Resurrection, since it's the only way to see H20 on BD in its proper aspect ration in a Region 1 release.

[jstxanothrxstory]

Ah, okay, I was a bit confused there. Anyway, great cover. Would totally use it when finished.

[unclejay73]

Hi gang,

I was a fan of the animated film, "The Secret of NIMH"...and the MGM U.S. BLU-RAY release, has artwork that is atrocious...and blinds the viewer from the animated cinematic masterpiece that it is.

Here's two custom versions of "NIMH"...I have these up at Euphoricfx.org...or you can message me with your e-mail...and I can send them to you.

Thanks,

Uncle Jay