Custom Cover Art Thread

[RebelPrince1986]

Originally Posted by madlost1

Started working on my custom Godzilla series covers today. I really liked the design that Section 23 is using for their Godzilla releases and wanted to keep in that spirit. I am trying to use original poster art as much as possible as long as I like the design. Above the poster art area will be the title of the film in English along as on the spine. While some have English titles already on the poster like the below example I want to keep it uniform throughout the series. I also took some design elements from the good folks at Criterion and adapted them for use on my covers here and they will be housed in criterion style blu cases. I'm nowhere near as skilled as most of you guys but hopefully these will turn out okay. Here's what I have done so far.

Do you mind if I give some constructive criticism?
I'm by no means a pro, so take it all for what it is...

First, and most glaringly to me is the title being on the front cover twice and in different styles. I'd maybe try centering the original poster art in the frame and just going that route. It would clean it up a bit.

Second, the spine becomes very cluttered looking with all of the different colors and logos and pictures and everything. If you insist on having the blue Blu-ray logo AND the Criterion-esque box, I'd consider either rotating the Blu-ray logo so that it goes in the same direction as the words OR rework the box and put the Blu-ray logo at the bottom of the spine OR just lose it all together and move it to a small corner in the back.

Lastly, I'd play around with fonts a bit more and maybe give yourself a little bit more distance from the edge of the cover, when that prints out the words are going to be right at the edge.

Again, please don't take this as me slamming your work, because I think it could be really great with a few tweaks!

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by RebelPrince1986

Do you mind if I give some constructive criticism?
I'm by no means a pro, so take it all for what it is...

[Show spoiler]First, and most glaringly to me is the title being on the front cover twice and in different styles. I'd maybe try centering the original poster art in the frame and just going that route. It would clean it up a bit.

Second, the spine becomes very cluttered looking with all of the different colors and logos and pictures and everything. If you insist on having the blue Blu-ray logo AND the Criterion-esque box, I'd consider either rotating the Blu-ray logo so that it goes in the same direction as the words OR rework the box and put the Blu-ray logo at the bottom of the spine OR just lose it all together and move it to a small corner in the back.

Lastly, I'd play around with fonts a bit more and maybe give yourself a little bit more distance from the edge of the cover, when that prints out the words are going to be right at the edge.

Again, please don't take this as me slamming your work, because I think it could be really great with a few tweaks!

Good points, and piggy backing off of this post, that yellow type will be a little staining on the eyes (especially the two paragraphs on the back). It vibrates quite a bit. Maybe try lowering the opacity to dull it some, or try a different shade of yellow altogether. Maybe try sampling that orange from the fire on the cover. Nice work though.

[RebelPrince1986]

Tweaked the Harry Potter set a bit.

I realigned the spines because it was driving me insane that they weren't matching up very nicely when centered in the spine. I also changed the color scheme of Goblet of Fire to a blu-ish tint rather than the pink that it was.

Also added some dividers to the backs of the films where it fit to break up the text a bit.

[madlost1]

Originally Posted by RebelPrince1986

Do you mind if I give some constructive criticism?
I'm by no means a pro, so take it all for what it is...

First, and most glaringly to me is the title being on the front cover twice and in different styles. I'd maybe try centering the original poster art in the frame and just going that route. It would clean it up a bit.

Second, the spine becomes very cluttered looking with all of the different colors and logos and pictures and everything. If you insist on having the blue Blu-ray logo AND the Criterion-esque box, I'd consider either rotating the Blu-ray logo so that it goes in the same direction as the words OR rework the box and put the Blu-ray logo at the bottom of the spine OR just lose it all together and move it to a small corner in the back.

Lastly, I'd play around with fonts a bit more and maybe give yourself a little bit more distance from the edge of the cover, when that prints out the words are going to be right at the edge.

Again, please don't take this as me slamming your work, because I think it could be really great with a few tweaks!

Thanks for the suggestions. I was actually thinking about removing the blu ray logo last night and putting it
in the back in the bottom row with the other logos. I was also worried about how close the back text is to the edge and thought I had gone far enough but I was thinking about playing around with it some more as well. Thanks for reinforcing those thoughts. As for the title situation on the cover I mentioned that in my initial post. Since 99% percent of the poster art that I will be using will only have the title in the original Japanese (only 4 out of the roughly 23 covers I'm going to be doing in this style at this time have the English title on the poster) I want to remain consistent with these covers and the only way to do that is to make the sacrifice of putting the title twice on the front in English in the rare occurrence that one of the posters has English on it.

Originally Posted by Mandalorian

Good points, and piggy backing off of this post, that yellow type will be a little staining on the eyes (especially the two paragraphs on the back). It vibrates quite a bit. Maybe try lowering the opacity to dull it some, or try a different shade of yellow altogether. Maybe try sampling that orange from the fire on the cover. Nice work though.

Thanks for the suggestions. The two titles (front cover and spine) are going to be getting a adjustment and definitely arnt going to stay that color. I didn't really think all that much about the text on the back but will definitely adjust it.

[Robert George]

RP,

I have a special request regarding the first Harry Potter film. Can you make a version of your cover with the title, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". I bought my disc from the UK and that is the title over there.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Thank you. This was a set I made very early in my cover-making days and I would do just about everything differently today. Funny how my tastes have changed. Though one thing remains; Superman is THE super hero.

I look at some of my early custom cover efforts and shake my head in a "what was I thinking" confusion.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by Imrahil2001

and a couple of iterations of James Bond collections. The latter was more about consolidating space as I got larger multi-disc sets.

That's the reason why so many of my earliest efforts were collections. The simple fact that 1,000+ DVDs and 800+ BD's take up a lot of space

[Animal7390]

does anyone have a template for the design dimensions as i am going to try my hand at this.

[Nissen]

Originally Posted by Animal7390

does anyone have a template for the design dimensions as i am going to try my hand at this.

Start with the ones posted by IllestVillain here:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=8738

They got me off the ground, to be sure. Looking forward to seeing your work.

[Nissen]

Here is some recent work I am free to share thanks to the generosity of my client.

Chucky Collection


Nightmare on Elm Street collection



Custom Blu-ray covers made to fit a 15mm spine case. PM me for download links.

[Thomas Guycott]

Dig that Child's Play cover.

(Always been a bit annoyed they rebranded the series as "Chucky.")

[shadow panther]

does anyone have a translated happinet NOTLD cover art? if not I will pay someone to make one and print it out for me

[Animal7390]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Start with the ones posted by IllestVillain here:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=8738

They got me off the ground, to be sure. Looking forward to seeing your work.

thanks, checking it out now. im guessing most people use photoshop for this type of stuff.

[RebelPrince1986]

Originally Posted by Robert George

RP,

I have a special request regarding the first Harry Potter film. Can you make a version of your cover with the title, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". I bought my disc from the UK and that is the title over there.

[Show spoiler]

Something like this?
I obviously need to fix the alignment of the paragraphs on back and I forgot to change the title in the credits on the bottom in the back, but I will get to that.




Or did you want that specific art used?

[Doctor.Who]

Originally Posted by Nissen

Start with the ones posted by IllestVillain here:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=8738

Your the best. Thank you for posting this. I've already started work on my first cover.

[Animal7390]

the text people use on the back, are you guys locating that somewhere and copying it or are you typing it out?

[Doctor.Who]

Originally Posted by Animal7390

the text people use on the back, are you guys locating that somewhere and copying it or are you typing it out?

I've noticed that some seem like they are typed but others are copyied and pasted

[Robert George]

Originally Posted by RebelPrince1986

Something like this?
I obviously need to fix the alignment of the paragraphs on back and I forgot to change the title in the credits on the bottom in the back, but I will get to that.

Or did you want that specific art used?

That's exactly what I am hoping for. The art you were already using with the different title.

Please let me know when you make these available. I have new cases to get my discs out of those huge "Ultimate Edition" boxes.

P.S. Just one minor nit...the aspect ratio should be 2.40:1, not 2.41:1.

[madlost1]

Did a little more work and changed some things up on my first Godzilla Cover thoughts:

[Doctor.Who]

Originally Posted by madlost1

Did a little more work and changed some things up on my first Godzilla Cover thoughts:

[Show spoiler]

Nice work. I really like the work you did on the spine