Awesome Star Wars art (pic heavy!!) — Page 6

HansiG said:

ZkinandBonez said:

Z6PO said:

HansiG said:

ZkinandBonez said:

joefavs said:

Celebration Europe poster:

Hmm, why does all the conventions get all the cool classic-style posters while the theatres end up with those generic photoshops?

Research says people are more likely to buy a movie or a videogame if it has Photoshopped or CGI cover, rather than drawn cover

[citation needed]

Ditto.

I’m not saying your wrong, but I think that most fans would either prefer or don’t mind a painted poster, and quite frankly with something as popular (and I would also argue “retro”) as SW I don’t really image that too many people would really have cared, or perhaps even noticed (I can’t recall anyone making a fuss ver the PT posters). I think that as long as it says “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” people would go see the movie int he theatres and buy the DVD/Blu-ray regardless. Heck some of the DVD/Blu-ray covers are basically just the title anyway and the Teaser poster was literally just the title.
I have a feeling that this is one of those thing that marketers just assume about it’s audience. It’s kind of like how action movie posters always has the hero with his back turned to the camera or how certain actors look the same on every poster they’re on. I can’t really think of any good reasons for these cliches, it’s just one of those things that nobody bothers to change.

Fans? Yes. Dumb masses? No.

Well, that’s kind of my point, would the “dumb” masses really care? It’s Star Wars after all, and the “dumb” masses didn’t complain about the PT posters, which were Struzan paintings.
(Also some posters these days doesn’t even have people on them, so why would a painted person(s) bother them?)

ZkinandBonez said:

HansiG said:

ZkinandBonez said:

Z6PO said:

HansiG said:

ZkinandBonez said:

joefavs said:

Celebration Europe poster:

Hmm, why does all the conventions get all the cool classic-style posters while the theatres end up with those generic photoshops?

Research says people are more likely to buy a movie or a videogame if it has Photoshopped or CGI cover, rather than drawn cover

[citation needed]

Ditto.

I’m not saying your wrong, but I think that most fans would either prefer or don’t mind a painted poster, and quite frankly with something as popular (and I would also argue “retro”) as SW I don’t really image that too many people would really have cared, or perhaps even noticed (I can’t recall anyone making a fuss ver the PT posters). I think that as long as it says “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” people would go see the movie int he theatres and buy the DVD/Blu-ray regardless. Heck some of the DVD/Blu-ray covers are basically just the title anyway and the Teaser poster was literally just the title.
I have a feeling that this is one of those thing that marketers just assume about it’s audience. It’s kind of like how action movie posters always has the hero with his back turned to the camera or how certain actors look the same on every poster they’re on. I can’t really think of any good reasons for these cliches, it’s just one of those things that nobody bothers to change.

Fans? Yes. Dumb masses? No.

Well, that’s kind of my point, would the “dumb” masses really care? It’s Star Wars after all, and the “dumb” masses didn’t complain about the PT posters, which were Struzan paintings.
(Also some posters these days doesn’t even have people on them, so why would a painted person(s) bother them?)

I’m just quoting this to continue the sensation that the image is slowly retreating.

DuracellEnergizer said:

IF WE WRENT SO DRUNK RIGHT NOW, WE'D POST SOMETHING

OH, WHAT THE FQ

I like this! The unpainted X-Wings are a nice balance between the used-future OT ships and the silver PT Naboo craft.

If the other two films in the prequels had used this sort of aesthetic for spaceships etc., we probably wouldn’t complain about them so much. Instead, we got the Invasion of the Greeblies.

I think some of Bruce Timm’s Star Wars art has been posted here before… But here it is in color! I absolutely adore his style mixed with Star Wars.

This is literally perfect

DominicCobb said:

Tyrphanax said:

ZkinandBonez said:

joefavs said:

Celebration Europe poster:

Hmm, why does all the conventions get all the cool classic-style posters while the theatres end up with those generic photoshops?

Marketing reasons, I’m sure. If nothing else, it’s cheaper to pay some intern to photoshop some promotional images together and bash out a poster in fifteen minutes than it is to pay someone like Drew Struzan and then have to wait for a few weeks.

I HIGHLY doubt “some intern” did the poster photoshop job for the most anticipated movie of all time (TFA). Lot of time was put into that.

Hyperbole. =P

I know it’s not just tossed to some unpaid intern, obviously. It’s just always more costly to hire an outside artisan to work their craft by hand.

Plus, people these days (i.e. filthy Millennials) expect posters to be what they are now.

Depending on which ridiculous classification metric you read, being born in 1989 makes me very solidly a Millennial.

How about we all have fun and laugh at ourselves sometimes.

TV’s Frink said:

Darth Lucas said:

Tyrphanax said:

filthy Millennials

Can you not? There are some younger people on this forum you know.

Yes, there are. We call them lazy Flounders.

I guess I’m a Flounder now.

glub

by NicolasSiner

Some more art by Noble6 on DA

I like those posters a lot as well, but I feel like they really overdid the noise layer.