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Title: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on March 13, 2010, 01:48:10 PM

I photoshopped some cool original posters and came up with these variants.  (These are slightly compressed, which reduces the quality - they are better full size):

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Final.jpg)

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/APFsize.jpg)

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/APF-1.jpg)

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/APF.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: brude on March 14, 2010, 05:45:55 AM

I gotta hand it to you Mel, your passion for posters is unbridled. 
I've got a feeling these photoshop exercises are leading to something big.
They are all very cool. Love Casino Royale.

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: quadbod on March 14, 2010, 06:24:23 AM

... just one 'l' in Ursula, though ...

Best wishes,
Terry - www.quadbod.co.uk

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Bruce on March 14, 2010, 08:56:02 AM

How long til these turn up on Moviegoods?

 qip

Bruce

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on March 14, 2010, 02:23:00 PM

Quote from: brude on March 14, 2010, 05:45:55 AM

I gotta hand it to you Mel, your passion for posters is unbridled.  
I've got a feeling these photoshop exercises are leading to something big.
They are all very cool. Love Casino Royale.

Well, these are just fan posters that are "tributes" to the originals - kinda like a "cover song."  The original artists/poster designers have the real talent.  I'm just a "rearranger."

As discussed elsewhere on this board, these 72DPI images are "compressed" and really too small to blow up well, so MovieGoods can't really do anything with them.

So anybody else have anything?

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Ari on March 15, 2010, 01:40:12 AM

Heres one I did years ago, as an April fools joke, and posted online, pretended Id found a very rare style 1 sheet, and asking questions about it, fooled some, of course a few experts emailed me privately knowing it was a joke (the art is from the book)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/posterfreak/FORUM/kkcopy.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: brude on March 15, 2010, 03:47:42 AM

What???  I paid good money for a Kong like that???  Hooey, nice one, Ari.

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Bruce on March 17, 2010, 09:18:37 AM

I once had the idea of making "fantasy one-sheets", like the fantasy #9 lobby cards, only all art. I intended to do limited editions of 100 of each, done 27" x 41".

I was going to hire noted artist Igor Edelman to create one-sheets for classic movies that have pretty disappointing one-sheets (like The Jazz Singer, showing Jolson in blackface on one knee, or Public Enemy showing Cagney putting the grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face). It would take a great artist who was familiar with classic movie poster styles to make this work well, and Igor was that man.

But he was too busy, and so was I, and by the time I got back to the idea, he got sick and passed away.

Oh, what might have been!

Bruce

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: brude on March 17, 2010, 11:53:17 AM

That's a great idea, Bruce.
Don't let it die.  There are plenty of young artists out there with all the style that's needed to pull it off.
Do it, man!

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on March 18, 2010, 06:06:21 AM

Quote from: Bruce on March 17, 2010, 09:18:37 AM

I once had the idea of making "fantasy one-sheets", like the fantasy #9 lobby cards, only all art. I intended to do limited editions of 100 of each, done 27" x 41".
Bruce

You should still do it!  The Alamo series shows there is tremendous interest in limited edition posters for older movies.

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on March 20, 2010, 12:55:02 AM

Downhill Racer: The two main images, some of the lobby cards, and the super-cool "Kool Beans" font, combined into a new quad:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Final-3.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on April 03, 2010, 01:33:17 PM

For Close Encounters I prefer the commercial Toho poster, so I took the source image, cleaned it up, blew it up to 27x41, and added some of the credits from the actual movie poster:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Final-4-1.jpg)

Source images:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Source1.jpg)

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Source2.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: guest8 on April 03, 2010, 02:14:56 PM

Needs a little work with the blending at the bottom but great work with the original image !

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on April 03, 2010, 09:12:52 PM

This one worked out well:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/FINAL-6.jpg)

Source image:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/barbarella-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: sergmark on April 06, 2010, 11:09:23 PM

That Barbarella is sexy... But I'm getting dizzy ... 8) 8)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on May 08, 2010, 09:06:47 PM

I scanned in unused artwork for Diamonds Are Forever from the James Bond Poster Book and added titles & credits that generally match the final poster.  So this is what the official poster for Diamonds Are Forever might have looked like:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Final-7.jpg)

Sources:

(http://www.posters.ws/images/939382/diamonds_are_forever.jpg)

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Unused.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on April 16, 2011, 11:18:46 AM

Super-psychedelic Barbarella:

(http://posternirvana.com/0DNE/Barbarella3.jpg)

The Barbarella Style B apparently was not used in a horizontal format, so I gave it a shot.  Better/worse?  (Obviously Gold deliberately used lots of blank purple space in the OS.)

(http://posternirvana.com/0DNE/Fonda-half.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: TZimmes on June 17, 2011, 07:05:51 PM

I made this for my wife's birthday.  This is actually the initial design.  Its was printed in b&w and hand coloured.  I'll toss up a pic of the finished and framed piece one of these days.

Its a pretty great convo piece.  Nearly everyone who sees it needs a few moments to recognize her and I in the poster.  I give shout outs to the family pets in the credits.

(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f363/nonsensebwoy/birthdayposter4WEB.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: CJ138 on June 17, 2011, 07:54:04 PM

Mel, you love posters more than anyone I can think of.  I would totally buy that Blue Crush if the image were a little sharper  ;)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on October 07, 2011, 10:42:55 PM

I'll never be able to afford an original "This Gun For Hire" ($10,000+), so I created this 27"x41" image (8100 pixels x 12300 pixels @ 300dpi), which I may eventually print, by combining the one sheet and half sheet using Photoshop and the AlienSkin "Blow Up 2" plug-in:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/ThisGunForHire-1.jpg)

Source images:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/onesheet.jpg)

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/half.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Neo on October 07, 2011, 10:49:36 PM

Wow.  That original one sheet is a real beaut.  Great concept to combine the one sheet and half sheet.  Good work.

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on October 07, 2011, 11:19:51 PM

Same process with "Attack of the 50 Ft Woman" (another $10,000 poster).

- Original on left
- Remove all text, clean up image
- Blow up image, recreate all text

End result is a 27"x41" high quality reprint, reasonably close to the original (but not intended to be an exact clone)

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Combined.png)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: 50s on October 07, 2011, 11:37:29 PM

Quote from: Dread_Pirate_Mel on October 07, 2011, 11:19:51 PM

End result is a 27"x41" high quality reprint, reasonably close to the original (but not intended to be an exact clone)

Are yellow, red, white and black your favorite colors at the moment?

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on October 09, 2011, 03:23:55 PM

It's unlikely more than 2-3 of these six sheets for World Without End still exist and they auction for $9,000+.  I've redimensioned it as a full size 40x30 (300dpi) quad:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Final-8.jpg)

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/lf-35.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: 50s on October 09, 2011, 04:55:31 PM

Great, that answered my question!

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on January 22, 2012, 10:02:05 AM

An old school quad borrowing some unused concept art from Robert McGinness (http://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Splash/9E338CE33EA9DD36):

(http://posternirvana.com/0DNE/Splash%20%28McGinnis%29.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Neo on January 23, 2012, 01:14:19 PM

clap    Great custom work on Splash.    Two thumbup thumbup

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: 50s on January 24, 2012, 05:42:08 AM

I didnt notice till now there was only one and a halfish of her

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Ari on July 04, 2012, 03:09:16 AM

Quote from: 50s on October 09, 2011, 04:55:31 PM

Great, that answered my question!

the answer is pi

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: 50s on July 04, 2012, 06:38:10 AM

Quote from: Ari on July 04, 2012, 03:09:16 AM

the answer is pi

At high school I remember in year 7 (age about 13) a dork would go around reciting pi off to 50 decimal places

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Ari on July 06, 2012, 11:05:45 PM

he probably is rich and married to a 20 year old blonde with FFF tits.

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: Dread_Pirate_Mel on September 08, 2012, 10:41:21 AM

Endless Summer quad:

(http://posternirvana.com/0DNE/0-APF2/Endless%20Summer%20QUAD.jpg)

As noted by Bruce, the US one sheet did not utilize the art very well:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/2012/endless_summer_HP00851_L.jpg)

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: 50s on September 08, 2012, 10:53:35 AM

I agree with everything you said Mel - there is nothing better than quads.  The quad format rules

Title: Re: Your custom posters
Post by: TheAnswerMVP2001 on November 13, 2012, 03:10:04 AM

Quote from: Dread_Pirate_Mel on March 14, 2010, 01:34:40 AM

Another one:

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv275/Forty_Candles/Final-1.jpg)

I've seen someone trying to sell this on eBay before...