Gattaca 4K UHD (1997)

[eddievanhalen]

I preordered the everythingblu Steelbook. If I paid 70 Euros for a US press kit for Gattaca with lobby cards and a bunch of slides and 50 Euros for a set of original US theatrical lobby cards I can well pay around 55 Euros for the everythingblu Steelbook, after all, Gattaca is one of my top ten movies.

[trekky76]

Oh, will definitely be getting the standard Canadian one if true.

[Count Orlok]

Originally Posted by reanimator

$78.63 for me -- and I bought it the moment it went live.

Same here. Well worth it.

[andreasy969]

Originally Posted by Fjodor2000

Nordic cover:

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and back cover:

Might go for that one since the UK will come with the pink 15 of horror.

[rumpleminz]

Originally Posted by andreasy969

Might go for that one since the UK will come with the pink 15 of horror.

Whoa a decent looking cover. The Steelbook and premium blupick covers make this thing looks so generic. It's like they're using free interns to design the covers.

Heyyyy you guys need a beast graphics designer to work cheap? Hit me up. My artwork will be 100% original and blow all these covers out the water. lol

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by rumpleminz

Whoa a decent looking cover. The Steelbook and premium blupick covers make this thing looks so generic. It's like they're using free interns to design the covers.

Heyyyy you guys need a beast graphics designer to work cheap? Hit me up. My artwork will be 100% original and blow all these covers out the water. lol

Do you do other movies as well?
I need about 15-20 covers made...

[Filmmaker]

Though I’m getting slightly weary of EverythingBlu’s covers beginning to trend more and more toward the tired motif of floating heads, their artwork is still so much more striking and aesthetically lovely than the garish Sony Steel’s, to an exponential degree, so they got my $77.70 seconds after the listing went live.

[cgpublic]

Originally Posted by Phillip c. Niethe

@cgpublic, your interpretation makes me like the steel a bit more, however I still need Uma, a little more accents to insinuate Jude is bursting into flames and that helix should stand out more.

Originally Posted by cgpublic

Perhaps they're saving Uma for the inner art. We can only hope.

Originally Posted by bbeck

At least thanks to the EverythingBlu listing we can see what the back of the mass-produced steel will look like.

With this latest reveal (Uma on the back cover), the steelbook design has attained even greater heights.

Fantastic work.

[cgpublic]

Originally Posted by rumpleminz

Whoa a decent looking cover. The Steelbook and premium blupick covers make this thing looks so generic. It's like they're using free interns to design the covers.

Heyyyy you guys need a beast graphics designer to work cheap? Hit me up. My artwork will be 100% original and blow all these covers out the water. lol

Well, to state the steelbook art is 'generic' is nothing more than a subjective assessment, which is fine, you don't like it, but as a designer, why not give us a professional, objective assessment? While you're at it, perhaps you would care to share an example of your work in place of bashing the work of a fellow designer, one designer to another?

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Though I’m getting slightly weary of EverythingBlu’s covers beginning to trend more and more toward the tired motif of floating heads, their artwork is still so much more striking and aesthetically lovely than the garish Sony Steel’s, to an exponential degree, so they got my $77.70 seconds after the listing went live.

Well, it's your money, but in my opinion, the custom artwork cash grabs are pretty weak, basically floating heads. My money is on the steelbook based on my previously shared opinion:

Originally Posted by cgpublic

I'm also in the minority, but in cases such as these, more for us!

One of the great things about boards is to gauge the knee-jerk reaction to something that is new and different. I had an immediate, positive reaction to the artwork, but after reading through the comments, decided to give it another look.

Here's my take:

• The two dominant colors, blue-violet & burnt orange, represent the respective fates of the two main characters.
  
• The two main characters are superimposed upon each other to represent their shared identity.
  
• The image of the DNA strand represents the tie (and stairs) that binds the story.

It's really a phenomenal work of art befitting a new restoration, and the associated opportunity to expose this gem to new audiences, and far better than some simple Photoshop of actor stills or pre-existing artwork.

$80? Better you than me.

[Bar81]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Though I’m getting slightly weary of EverythingBlu’s covers beginning to trend more and more toward the tired motif of floating heads, their artwork is still so much more striking and aesthetically lovely than the garish Sony Steel’s, to an exponential degree, so they got my $77.70 seconds after the listing went live.

If you hate the steelbook that much (and I agree with you), you can buy it, slip the discs into a regular case and download a custom insert and it'll cost you a lot less than you're paying for a huge paper cover that isn't that amazing (although better than the steelbook).

[Phillip c. Niethe]

Originally Posted by cgpublic

With this latest reveal (Uma on the back cover), the steelbook design has attained even greater heights.

Fantastic work.

Looks great! Can't wait to own it

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Bar81

If you hate the steelbook that much (and I agree with you), you can buy it, slip the discs into a regular case and download a custom insert and it'll cost you a lot less than you're paying for a huge paper cover that isn't that amazing (although better than the steelbook).

Clearly, you don’t know much about me.

[rumpleminz]

Originally Posted by cgpublic

Well, to state the steelbook art is 'generic' is nothing more than a subjective assessment, which is fine, you don't like it, but as a designer, why not give us a professional, objective assessment? While you're at it, perhaps you would care to share an example of your work in place of bashing the work of a fellow designer, one designer to another?

As an artist when you know how ridiculously easy something was made, and it looks like something first time college students are putting out in photoshop, it's hard to appreciate it. You could actually recreate this artwork in minutes. It's simply a click of a button to filter each image as hand drawn artwork, two of the three images are either multiplied or masked over one another and that's it. Granted a lot of movie artwork can be recreated in minutes. This has always been a huge problem in Hollywood. It's really about the fact that there's so many amazing artists out there that work a non artists job and we are getting this lazy? cheap? inexperienced? intern quality? artwork by...I don't know who they are but, they're not artists that have followings because people like their work. It's not even really about how long the piece took, if it looks great. There are lots of amazing artists that will do these covers way better for FREE. This is a collector's edition steelbook. The artwork should be like "wow". Whether it's "Art" or "Graphic Design"

Now take the new 4k Donnie Darko artwork. It's a simple illustration that was drawn by hand either with Pencil/Ink or digitally. Then it was colored digitally. If you look closely the illustrator didn't do a very good job with Jake's likeness and didn't even develop parts of the drawing. Like Jake's hands are just blobs. But, the overall piece is great! Could it be recreated in a few hours? Yes. Most parts of the drawing are loose, and the coloring and graphic design part of takes little to no time. But, the creativity of the overall piece is unique and well executed.

I designed websites (including platinum selling musicians) from 1997 to 2013. I specialized in Flash animated websites. When smart phones and tablets started becoming really big around 2010 and they couldn't handle the big animated websites, all browsers started to drop support for animation and I had no interest in basic website and graphic design so I quit. I always had more fun as an illustrator than graphic designer. I'm actually working as an engineer designing yachts while working on a Graphic Novel on the side.

A Digital Illustration I did in 2008 that I did for my private collection:

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A couple of Drawings I did in 2016 and 2017 for my private collection (yeah that's a piece of plywood):

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I can Graphic Design and draw.

[cgpublic]

Originally Posted by rumpleminz

...I can Graphic Design and draw.

Yes, but can you read?

Great design isn't exclusively about creating something that is aesthetically pleasing (although if you are creating art to sell to something, it doesn't hurt), it's about the communication of an idea that is compelling to the viewer.

What is clear to me is that the Gattaca steel book designer actually viewed the film and expressed an interpretation of the film in the design, and in doing so, captured the main idea of the film, centered on the two main characters, their shared identity and related journey.

Not only did the the designer capture the main idea, but they created art that to my eyes is unique, or at the very least, differentiating in comparison to not only the prior artwork for Gattaca, but also many other films titles.

The color palette alone deserves praise for being attention-grabbing, which often is far more important in retail shelf commerce than safe and common/dilute.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that you and others don't have a right to express the opinion that you don't like it, because everyone is entitled to an opinion, including the option to not buy it.

But design is far more than personal preference, e.g., I don't like the color, or it's too simple/easy to create, i.e., many of the world's most respected commercial designs are in fact great because they communicate a complex idea in a simple way.

[Fjodor2000]

I actually like both the Steelbook and the Nordic Cover.

The Nordic one is a bit more classic. But the Steelbook really stands out, and is not as bland as many other covers. Isn't that kind of the idea with steelbooks, that they should be a bit special/unique, and separate themselves from the crowd?

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by cgpublic

Yes, but can you read?

Great design isn't exclusively about creating something that is aesthetically pleasing (although if you are creating art to sell to something, it doesn't hurt), it's about the communication of an idea that is compelling to the viewer.

What is clear to me is that the Gattaca steel book designer actually viewed the film and expressed an interpretation of the film in the design, and in doing so, captured the main idea of the film, centered on the two main characters, their shared identity and related journey.

Not only did the the designer capture the main idea, but they created art that to my eyes is unique, or at the very least, differentiating in comparison to not only the prior artwork for Gattaca, but also many other films titles.

The color palette alone deserves praise for being attention-grabbing, which often is far more important in retail shelf commerce than safe and common/dilute.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that you and others don't have a right to express the opinion that you don't like it, because everyone is entitled to an opinion, including the option to not buy it.

But design is far more than personal preference, e.g., I don't like the color, or it's too simple/easy to create, i.e., many of the world's most respected commercial designs are in fact great because they communicate a complex idea in a simple way.

Where the hell is my 'a polished turd is still a turd' button?

[Rusty100]

Originally Posted by cgpublic

Yes, but can you read?

Great design isn't exclusively about creating something that is aesthetically pleasing (although if you are creating art to sell to something, it doesn't hurt), it's about the communication of an idea that is compelling to the viewer.

What is clear to me is that the Gattaca steel book designer actually viewed the film and expressed an interpretation of the film in the design, and in doing so, captured the main idea of the film, centered on the two main characters, their shared identity and related journey.

Not only did the the designer capture the main idea, but they created art that to my eyes is unique, or at the very least, differentiating in comparison to not only the prior artwork for Gattaca, but also many other films titles.

The color palette alone deserves praise for being attention-grabbing, which often is far more important in retail shelf commerce than safe and common/dilute.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that you and others don't have a right to express the opinion that you don't like it, because everyone is entitled to an opinion, including the option to not buy it.

But design is far more than personal preference, e.g., I don't like the color, or it's too simple/easy to create, i.e., many of the world's most respected commercial designs are in fact great because they communicate a complex idea in a simple way.

I fully agree with your sentiments but you're giving this cover way more credit than it deserves. It looks very amateur and breaks a few design rules, but not in a good way. It just isn't very good.

[cgpublic]

Originally Posted by Rusty100

I fully agree with your sentiments but you're giving this cover way more credit than it deserves. It looks very amateur and breaks a few design rules, but not in a good way. It just isn't very good.

Like I said, everyone is entitled to an opinion. You don't like it, perfectly understood.

Unlike you and others, I've stated the objective reasons why I believe the artwork is exceptional.

As a design professional, when someone uses the terms "amateur," "...isn't very good" and "...breaks a few design rules," without stating the rules, all I'm hearing is subjective opinion.

So, unless you have something else to add, say something objective based on design theory, why not simply leave it as you simply don't like it.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by cgpublic

Like I said, everyone is entitled to an opinion. You don't like it, perfectly understood.

Unlike you and others, I've stated the objective reasons why I believe the artwork is exceptional.

As a design professional, when someone uses the terms "amateur," "...isn't very good" and "...breaks a few design rules," without stating the rules, all I'm hearing is subjective opinion.

So, unless you have something else to add, say something objective based on design theory, why not simply leave it as you simply don't like it.

If you like the steelbook artwork more power to you. However, there is nothing about this particular cover art that conveys anything about the film other than it's about two guys and a double helix. Someone literally took an image of Law and put an image of Hawke over it. Then they said oooh I know let's throw a double helix in there to make it look like 'scientificy.' Even if you take the hideous basketball piss away from the artwork it still blows.

[Thomas Veil]

Art is very subjective so I declare you all correct, now move on.

Honestly the steel and the two slips Ive seen aren't good enough to have this much discussion. They are all just ok. I do appreciate the unusual color of the steel but hey thats just me I like different but none of the designs are worth all the back and forth.