PolygonAlchemy said:
Hey again, guys. Have been kept busy with real life work stuff recently, as well as this little game called Minecraft which has been eating up a lot of my free time :)
I kinda put the comic cover set on hold for a bit until I have a chance to flip through some more comics and look for other covers to use, as well as art to use on the back. I took ChainsawAsh's advice about tweaking the logos as well as using the proper "Attack of the Clones" one, (which I had completely forgotten about) I also moved the bar on the back to the side, which will make room for a "Special Features" box.
Jumping through earlier pages on this thread, though. I came across ChainsawAsh's covers based on the 90's VHS tapes. Seeing them made me all nostalgic as those where the original set I owned growing up as well. So naturaly, wanting to have as many projects ongoing at once, I had the idea to try and do a set of covers for the prequels in the style of those classic covers.
What do you guys think? I haven't done the backs, yet, which is what will really complete the look. These are just mockups basically. The hard part was finding poster art that matched the style of the originals. These I went with still feel a bit too... photographic for me. I donno. I thought of trying to tweak the colors to make them match better. I notice the 3 original trilogy covers had a lot of blue on them. I tried to bring out the blue on these a little without over-filtering them.
Any suggestions, guys? Thanks!
I toyed around with doing those, but I just used the Struzan art. It never felt quite right to me, so I dropped it.
I agree that those feel too photographic, but I like the yellow logos for AOTC and ROTS (it helps that you based them on the official logos). Not sure about the TPM one, but that's a hard one to make a logo for. I think that's why Lucasfilm never bothered making an official one.
Give it a shot with the Struzan art and see how that works, if it does at all.
I'd also consider switching up the logo placement a bit, as they did on the OT covers.
Also, is it just me, or is the ROTS spine logo too high up?