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pittrek kinda covered it, but I was going to point out (for anyone that cares) that The Clone Wars jumps around all over the place timeline wise. It probably should have been called "Tales From the Clone Wars". Like the first 2 eps of Season 3 act as a bookend for an episode from season 1,  but then again a large amount of time passes between all three, so they're probably spread out over the entire the war.  So as a result, the chronological order of the shows episodes are constantly changing as new ones air.  I'm sure once the show concludes they'll take the opportunity to release the full series again re-shuffled into order Young Indiana Jones Chronicles style.

I donno, I kinda dig the show, even though the animation style still bugs me at times.  Some of the episodes are very well written, especially in comparison to the PT. But I've been reading EU material as long as I've been a fan of Star Wars, so while the original trilogy will always sit atop the shining hill for me, I have no problem enjoying the multitude of other Star Wars offerings. And believe me, if you've read some of the early EU, the PT doesn't hurt quite as much.

ChainsawAsh said:

 

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?

Yea, the logo was low. Originally I made a variant of the long RotJ logo before I remembered that there was an official RotS one. 

Anyway, let's see, toyed with these some more (incoming picture spam, but then again isn't this thread about looking at all the pretty pictures?)

First I touched up my previous versions, toyed with the color some, corrected the spine logo, and tried the usual photoshop tricks to try to get more of a drawn look.

Second, I have them with the Struzan poster art. the tricky part was that these pictures were designed with black space around them, and with the idea of putting the logos at the bottom, so trying to make them fit with the OT designs is a bit tricky, at least requiring blowing them up some.

Third, I tried playing with the colors some,  again noticing that the OT covers had a lot of blue in them, I tried making them a bit more blue to match, don't think it works too well, though.

And here's a quick look at how all 6 would look together.

These are still just mockups,  as I was dumb and didn't set the sizes up properly when I started, I have to re-make whichever version I decide to go with for the final,  but then that'll let me take some more time on it.

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!

Sluggo said:

Those are looking pretty good.  I do like the bold logos on the front.  The comics work very well there also.  Maybe you could make an alternate set with movie posters or stills in addition to the comics.  Both would look great, imo. 

As far as the covers looking a little plain, maybe you could add a textured orange background instead of just the plain one.

Thanks!  Yea, giving it some thought, I could probably do a variant of that set with the movie posters for a more traditional look. I'd probably change the coloring on the logos and bars for those to a more 3D gold look, since I donno how well the flat primary color look would mesh with non comic book art. 

Has anyone done any "Official" versions of logos based around the episode titles,  like the ESB and RotJ ones? The ones in that set for eps 1-4 are ones I mocked up using either the RotJ logo as a base (For AotC, and RotS) or just kinda winging it for the other two (Although I think the ANH one looks too small compared to the other 5).  I donno, i just like the stylized episode title logos over the more uniform Star Wars: Episode x styles on the newer DVDs. Like I said, it'd lend itself well to making designs for other DVDs that can match with the set.

As for a gradient or pattern, I'll try a few variations, the reason I wanted to go with a flat color is because that's how the comic design does it. It has a certain simplicity to it.  I was thinking of some kind of symbols in those dead spaces, or i could move that box with the synopsis over and make room for either a "special features" list, or another small image.

I like doing these,  I'm finding it a lot of fun.

Troy said:

Great covers, however I think I would have taken out that very over saturated blue hue, I'm sorry but when did Han, Leia and Luke become those stupid blue Avatar aliens? lol

Thanks for the feedback! I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean about them being too blue, though? They look pretty flesh-tone to me. All the colors are a bit high-saturated, but that's how the nutritional book covers looked. I'll play with the levels some, see what I can come up with, though.

Anyway, on the other comic style covers, I messed around with a design for the backs some,  What does everyone think?

I like how it's coming, but there's something... plain about it still, especially on the two sides of the box with the synopsis. Maybe they'd be a good place for the special features, but they are kinda tight.

Couldn't sleep, started roughing out another set. This one is modeled after the newer lines of Star Wars comics from Dark Horse. The cover art pieces come from the book "Star Wars: Panel to Panel" and not all of them are explicitly related to their respective movies, but I thought they looked good. I like this style, as it would allow for matching covers for other material (Clone Wars, etc) that would match with the style. But what do you guys think? still haven't decided how to tackle the backs yet.

Hey guys! I've been a long time lurker here. I love the various fan edits and preservation projects. I've been wanting to contribute something for a while, and finally got motivated to try a few custom covers.

I've been a long time fan of the various Star Wars comics, and liked the idea of using some of the nice cover art for DVD covers.  Here's my first set, using the cover from Dark Horse's "Special Edition"graphic novels for the original trilogy comics. I did a few searches, but admitably didn't read all... 100+ pages of this threat, so I don't think anyone else tried making a covers with these yet.

I would love some feedback from the pros here.  I used inside art from the various books for the back, I wasn't entirely happy with the ESB one, but will see what you guys think.

Full sized versions:

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1636/comics1ep4.jpg

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6209/comics1ep5.jpg

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8972/comics1ep6.jpg

Feedback definitely welcome.  Also if anyone wants to modify these for any reason, like to adapt them for fan edits or whatnot, go for it! It's not my art, so I can't really lay claim to them :)  I left a space on the back to add your own features list, so they could be used for any DVD release.