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Harmy's avatar
Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers


I put together these covers for  my STAR WARS TRILOGY PARTLY DESPECIALIZED EDITION AVCHDs:

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I intent to print them on silver paper, so all the white parts will be silver, that should look awesome, I already tried that with my GODFATHER trilogy covers, only with golden paper, and it was brilliant.

 

I hope that people will add their covers for the various HD releases (like Wookiegroomers or Adywan's) here. I'd quite like it if some of you guys skilled at this kind of thing made some other covers for my PDE trilogy as well.

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Mona Lisa Special Edition

Pennsylvania Jones said:

"Stick and Stones will break my bones but the Blu-Rays will never Harmy." 

Lucas: I am altering the film. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Fans: This film is getting worse all the time!

 

Imrahil's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

Nice.  I hope to have some BD covers soon for the eventual releases (WIP pieces, obviously).


Where does one get silver or gold paper? Does it work only with certain types of printers?

Harmy's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

I bought it in a normal paper shop. You need to you buy the printable kind and it should work with any kind of printer, but you will obviosly get the best (comercially available) results with a high-end laser printer.

LIST OF MY PROJECTS

Mona Lisa Special Edition

Pennsylvania Jones said:

"Stick and Stones will break my bones but the Blu-Rays will never Harmy." 

Lucas: I am altering the film. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Fans: This film is getting worse all the time!

 

Harmy's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

Finished the new version of the covers:

 

 

 

LIST OF MY PROJECTS

Mona Lisa Special Edition

Pennsylvania Jones said:

"Stick and Stones will break my bones but the Blu-Rays will never Harmy." 

Lucas: I am altering the film. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Fans: This film is getting worse all the time!

 

Imrahil's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

So...I've started playing around with a custom cover set for the eventual release.  Not necessarily because it will suck (though if it's anything like that godawful DVD release artwork...) but because it's fun to do.

 

I've decided to use Whalen's fantastic art for the front, and then find a matching tone for the back out of McQuarrie's paintings.

Thanks to Darth Solo for the high res art for the back.

Not sure what else to do for the text on the back; not sure what else is needed.  The spines will all match, but I haven't figured out what I'm going to do with them just yet.

 

Comments welcome.

Darth Solo's avatar
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Well done Imrahil, thats a very welcome and refreshing new take on a custom. I really love it.

You can get clear blu ray cases aswell.

As for the text on the back, you reach the same hurdle as i always get to. But i think in this case you could even get away with any sort of synopsis for the back.

Spines, i love to place an image across a set to make a spanning spine set as it stands out on a shelf (but thats my thing).

Looking forward to see the completed cover(s).

Last edited on August 30, 2010 at 9:57 PM by Darth Solo (Reason: I got more for you if thats what you can do )

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Ziz's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

Spanning spines are hard to do on Blu cases because they're more curved than standard DVD cases.

My outlook on life - we're all on the Hindenburg anyway...no point fighting over the window seat.
Imrahil's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

A B C said:

It rocks. What a pity if all the blue-ray cases are to be blue though (notably this blue).

 

The program I use to get that view has an option to use any color case, but alas there are no black cases anywhere online that I can find for purchase.  Clear might be the answer.  Alternatively, when all of your blu rays are lined up together, the cases themselves tend to "disappear."

Thanks for the comments though.  I'm working on these still--anyone know where I can find a high resolution version of Whalen's ROTJ poster?

Imrahil's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

All right. Here's the more-or-less final version, I think, of ANH:

I played around a bit with the composition on the front, and there's a bit of room on the back for important "Special Features."

Here's the ESB WIP:

Now I need to find either a high-res version of Whalen's Jedi poster, or try to recreate it myself (time-consuming!). 

 

 

Last edited on September 2, 2010 at 11:34 PM by Imrahil
Darth Solo's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

Did you grab my PM Imrahil?

Who is the most foolish, the fool, or the fool which follows it?

Also fought in the clown wars, many years ago..and lost..miserably..

Imrahil's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

I did now, you magnificent bastard! :)  THanks much.

Darth Solo's avatar
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Err, your welcome, i guess.

 

That'll do me.....

Last edited on September 3, 2010 at 9:35 PM by Darth Solo (Reason: Do you follow any cuctom covers sites?)

Who is the most foolish, the fool, or the fool which follows it?

Also fought in the clown wars, many years ago..and lost..miserably..

Imrahil's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

Sorry, I just meant it to be a fun way of saying thanks.  Not implying you're Rommel necessarily or anything. :)

Imrahil's avatar
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ABC--I tend to agree, but I also think that the bold color is another "character."  I chose the Tusken Raider because the orange of the cover reminded me of the orange in that print.

So I hate to sacrifice that for a blander color palette.  There are a lot of nice "blue" ESB paintings to choose from though, so I'll look around more.

Imrahil's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

Okay! I think I'm done with the set, though I'm not sure which ROTJ I like better.

 

Here we go:

ROTJ V. 1

AND V.2:

and the set:

 

LeeThorogood's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

IMO Luke on the speeder looks better for ROTJ. :)

Harmy's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

These are great,  definitely better than the photoshop pictures from the official releases and inovative compared to the usual classic posters. I also like Luke better for ROTJ.

Last edited on September 6, 2010 at 6:21 PM by Harmy

LIST OF MY PROJECTS

Mona Lisa Special Edition

Pennsylvania Jones said:

"Stick and Stones will break my bones but the Blu-Rays will never Harmy." 

Lucas: I am altering the film. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Fans: This film is getting worse all the time!

 

Darth Solo's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

Great work. Im impressed what you did with them.

Not to sound impatiant, but any links to the finals?

Who is the most foolish, the fool, or the fool which follows it?

Also fought in the clown wars, many years ago..and lost..miserably..

Imrahil's avatar
RE: Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers

Oh yeah, thanks to Darth Solo for his help in finding the McQuarrie pics. :)

Re: links to the finals...since we don't know specs or special features yet (the ones I put in are just "wishlists") I'm going to hold off on that until we get some kind of announcement.

SnarlingCur's avatar
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Here are some disc labels I made up:

http://rapidshare.com/files/418712887/Despecialized_Disc_Lables.zip

I don't know how to host and post pics of these on here. If someone else wants to, go ahead.

The idea is for the discs to have a blue rim around them, to help them stand out from regular DVDs.

SnarlingCur's avatar
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Here is the Photoshop template I've made that I use to make DVD and AVCHD labels:

http://rapidshare.com/files/418892400/250dpi_Print_Disc_Master.zip

It helps you design around different disc hub options like; small, large, and LightScribe. It also helps you plan around a text area that that it available on HP direct to disc printers like I have.

SnarlingCur's avatar
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BTW I like all the covers I've see on here so far.

 

Imrahi, I'd go with the speederbike back. Dynamically it's hard to decide.

As a group you have either:

Large face, facing left (ANH)

Far away faces, facing away (TESB)

Midway face, facing right (ROTJ speederbike)

 

The other option would be:

A villain (ANH)

Two main heroes (TESB)

Supporting characters (ROTJ C3P0)

 

Drew Struzan used the "Heroes", "Villains", and "Supporting Characters" theme on the Special Edition one-sheets. Nice!

 

Both  back covers add to the green/forest theme of the front, so they're both excellent choices for ROTJ. These are honestly the best artistically crafted covers I've ever seen for Star Wars; Blu-ray or DVD.

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