Your custom posters

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

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):

[brude]

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.

[quadbod]

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

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

[Bruce]

How long til these turn up on Moviegoods?

qip

Bruce

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

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?

[Ari]

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)

[brude]

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

[Bruce]

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

[brude]

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!

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

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.

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

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

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

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:



Source images:

[guest8]

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

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

This one worked out well:



Source image:

[sergmark]

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

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

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:



Sources:

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Super-psychedelic Barbarella:



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.)

[TZimmes]

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.

[CJ138]

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  ;)

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

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:



Source images:

[Neo]

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

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

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)

[50s]

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?

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

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:

[50s]

Great, that answered my question!