Custom DVD cover art

[Dr Kain]

I like the metallic block letters...

[GodzFire]

[Dr Kain]

[XvGojira]

The reason, for me, why the lettering feels amateur-ish is because they seem like template lettering from Microsoft Word from the mid to late 90's.

[GodzFire]

[Gman2887]

Finally got back around to working on these again. The secondary titles are more readable now which is primarily what I was going for. I'll be working on SpaceGodzilla later.

[GodzFire]

Amazing, these are great. Any chance you could do the Millenium Series as well since they are all from Sony/Tristar and they would look great all in the same format?

[Gman2887]

I plan to do the Millennium films as well. I'm trying to finish up SpaceGodzilla and Destoroyah, but finding time to do it is hard.

I'm stuck over Tokyo S.O.S. though. It's the only film that didn't feature an artwork poster

[Dr Kain]

[Gman2887]

^That's a photoshop. I'm specifically targeting paintings/original artwork made for the films. Tokyo S.O.S. doesn't have anything like that.

I'm also having a hard time finding textless Millennium covers.

[Dr Kain]

[XvGojira]

[klen7]

i just flipped through a couple relevant artbooks and couldn't find anything worthwhile for SOS. The one Kain posted is the best thing i've seen for it.

GMK and GxMG both had art posters

[Gman2887]

Right the only one that doesn't have artwork is Tokyo S.O.S. making it the oddball out. Here's the current plan with the Millennium series otherwise:



I'd like to find high quality textless versions of these. If not I'm going to have to makeshift something out of existing materials.

I've even gone so far to see if there's some suitable fanart for Tokyo S.O.S. that fits the mold. Typically I wouldn't consider such a notion, but since I've been toying around with doing a Godzilla '14 in the same format with this fanart...



...I thought it might as well be worth the look.

[Dr Kain]

See, I wouldn't really call that GxMG one an art poster. When I think of art posters, I am thinking the Megaguirus one there. I guess the GMK one is artwork though.

[Gman2887]

The GxMG is still some romanticized poster artwork. It may mostly be digital art, but that still counts-- Especially over live action photoshops.

[Benjamin Haines]

[Gman2887]

[Dr Kain]

BTW, I have an 8x11ish sized poster of the Megaguirus artwork. If you want, I will look around for it and scan it to see if you can use it. I think it has the text on it though.

[Gman2887]

Thanks, but I think 2000 and Megaguirus are the ones I'm least concerned about right now. I have multiple sources that should be able to knock out the text on those posters.



I still have a lot of work to do on this one, but here's a preview of some things to come.

[Gman2887]

I've decided to just go with this for the SpaceGodzilla cover. Anything I added just took away from the menacing face of SpaceGodzilla on the back and I got tired agonizing over the back cover of my least favorite Godzilla movie.

The appropriate specs, run time and credits have been added. I'm off to Destoroyah now. Once I've completed Destoroyah I will make a final pass over each one of them and make the full sized covers available for anyone that wishes to use them.

Then I'm off to do the Millennium series.

[Dr Kain]

Two questions for you G-Man:

1. Is black going to be the main color? Just wondering since that is a lot of black ink being used up.

2. What style of BD cases are these going to be made for? Elites? Vortex? The ones companies like Media Blasters use?

[Gman2887]

Should be Elite, but I'll have to double check. I want to test that myself.

And yes it will use a lot of black ink, but they simply look better against a black backdrop. I intend using a special printer/paper elsewhere for this kind of thing anyhow.

[Dr Kain]

[Gman2887]

In my research I've found semi-gloss paper looks best. Again it's something I wish to test myself, but the current plan is semi-gloss-- Closest thing to bond paper which is what's used for real DVD/Blu-ray covers. Unfortunately bond-paper is quite useless for inkjet printing. There is a chance however I may be able to use a machine built to scan images into bond paper, but I'm not going to hold out too much hope for that.