Asteroid-Man

If you guys want tutorials: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Asteroid-Mans-Graphic-Design-Tutorial/topic/10478/

People were interested in this idea and it's pretty easy to get into. I'll keep this tutorial going as long as I can think of new challenges and then after that it's up to you. If you guys continue to work on this after these tutorials then I'm sure in about a year or so you'll be amazing. You never get worse, you only get better when it comes to Graphic Design.

Step 1: Download The Gimp. It's a free graphic design program.

Couldn't find one. Could you find me a better one maybe?

Haha yeah, thank God for Ewan.

Here's a version with numbers as requested.

fishman, were you saying ok to tutorials or ok to stopping?

Thanks vaderios! I wanted to maintain a consistant look.

Janskeet, I make all of my covers with barcodes and I refuse to remove it. Sorry, but I'm all for realism and it ads to it IMO. If you saw he magazine I made for one of my classes you would be shocked at the detail. I had a page filled with editor information and contact info, and the front had a bar code with prices, dates etc. It should be VERY easy to remove yourself, so I'm not gonna go to the trouble of fixing something you can do yourself. Sorry for being so direct.

fishmanlee said:

I have made a more serious poster
though seeing A-M's poster i feel dwarfed
i am open for critisism (I know about the matte lines)

If you would ACTUALLY like to get better I can give you tutorials of sorts. Otherwise just stop posting paint manips cause people are getting annoyed and you're just losing credibility.

What if I had the Episode Number behind the title on the front and behind Vader on the side?

I'll be doing ROTJ and maybe TPM next week. I have to get a bunch of my work done by tonight, and then I have class and work through out the week. The following weeks I have my last days of class and I have exams on the 18th, 19th, the 22nd and the 23rd. The weekend of the 26th I'm going to Ottawa so if I do get around to doing new covers it'll have to be during the next dew weekends. Thanks for all the positive comments guys!

Ok, here's a cover I made for this edit:

Hi-Res Printout: http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7716/esbr.png

The Two Side by side:

I haven't even heard of that! Haha, either that was before my time or after.

Ahahaha well it would be a surprise for me too now.

I don't remember. It's from another DVD. I use the same bar code for all my covers. Besides, it's just a bar code, doesn't matter what it's from.

asterisk8 said:

Very classy Asteroid-Man! I love the stark minimalism of it. Every element has its place and nothing feels extraneous. Well done!!

The only change I would make is to put Luke above the title instead of Obi-Wan. It is Luke's story afterall, and with Vader and Kenobi at the bottom, you have the three most important characters in the film on the cover.

I plan on using Luke for Return of the Jedi.

Pretty much what vaderios said.

Is there any comparisons of 2004 screens and WG's screens with WG's being 1080p and note scaled down? I want to see if it actually looks HD or not.

Here's my Star Wars Revisited cover if anyone wants it:

Hi-Res Print-Out Here: http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3636/swr.png

Ok, I finished the SW:Revisited cover. (See the EP IV thread for more images including print out)

Ahahahaha! Bobocop, that cover is great!

Is there a moderator in this place? Seriously some people on here should just be banned or put on probation. I've modded many websites before and this place could use some cleaning up. Moving on....

Ady, how long do you plan on the credits being? I can see if I can work something out that you might like. If need be I could even compose an original piece or something to be included.

And regarding the posters/DVD covers expect the first and possibly the second one (ANH and ESB) somtime this weekend. I might do one every week, having them look as professional as possible (if you guys are curious of the calliber of the work, let me know and I can show you a copy of my Batman Begins and Dark Knight DVD covers)

I'd say an appearance in a movie.

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!

I'll be posting mine sometime soon. I have the designs ready, just need to make them.

Director: SS

Music: Williams AND Zimmer

Kid Anakin: Haley Joel Osment or Scott Tera

Anakin: If only Joaquin Phoenix or Aaron Eckhart were younger, they'd be perfect!

Why not go with a teenage Anakin and then adult? Having Matt Long play them both? Being a 19 year old playing a 15 or 16 year old Anakin instead of a 9 year old Anakin. Then by AOTC he'd be 22 playing a 20 year old and then 25 playing a 22 year old.

Also don't show Jango's face and have his voice done by the guy who did Boba's voice.

corellian77 said:

Asteroid-Man said:

But don't worry I looked it up! Man, your British people have some weird terms. I still don't understand what that means, even after reading a whole page on it. :S

Where are you Asteroid-Man?  "Grasping at straws" is widely used in Canada and the USA as well.

 

Asteroid-Man said:

Can't the bombs send out a few light waves to make it look like radar trasmitters of sorts? A reason to them not finding the falcon could be because they're inside a worm.

I like that idea... much more plausible an explanation than carpet bombing an entire asteroid with low yield explosives.  By light waves, were you thinking of something like this?

What would that look like when it hits the ground?  (Assuming we'd see anything at all).

WHAT!? Are you sure we use that in Canada?

And if the radar doesn't work, we can always send me into the field to get them. (Get it? Ha. *Shrugs shoulders*)