The Custom Covers Thread

[tintacle 324]

American Sniper

 

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

[tintacle 324]

A request from the FSM forum for Intrada's upcoming release of Howard the Duck:

 

 

 

[tintacle 324]

Indiana Jones

 

Re-touched and Expanded set of a series I did for the Quadrilogy a few years ago.

 

The first set is based on the 2007 Trilogy DVD Collection:

 

 

The second is an alternate for the first set, with Raiders using the 2012 re-release IMAX poster by Mark Raats:

 

 

 

And the third set is based on the 1986 Special Collector's Series VHS of Raiders:

 

[heidl 491]

I hereby nominate tintacle as Custom Covers Thread Presidential Candidate!

[1977 2,134]

Made these Alien quad customs a while ago using the UK DVD steelbook artworks

 

ALIEN

 

 

ALIENS

 

 

ALIEN ³

 

 

ALIEN RESURRECTION

 

[heidl 491]

I just did the math and I'm afraid I have made 356 custom covers for Red Dead Redemption 2. 

[tintacle 324]

13 hours ago, heidl said:

I just did the math and I'm afraid I have made 356 custom covers for Red Dead Redemption 2. 

I’m afraid I have to insist, that you share them on HQCovers or here or both...

[heidl 491]

INSIST!?!?!

[tintacle 324]

Yeah. Insist.

[tintacle 324]

• Halloween
• Halloween II
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
• Halloween (2018)

Happy Halloween Everybody!

 

I added logos and credits to the Mondo vinyl artworks.

 

Artwork by Phantom City Creative

 

Artwork by Mike Saputo

 

Artwork by Brandon Schaefer

 

Artwork by Alan Hynes

 

Artwork by Gary Pullin

 

Artwork by Randy Ortiz

 

Artwork by Chris Bilheimer

[heidl 491]

I'm certainly not gonna post over 355 custom covers here, are you insane!?! 

 

Here are a few...

 

 

[tintacle 324]

AN ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS COLLECTION!

 

I recognize some of these homages; Dances with Wolves, Django Unchained, Glory, Lincoln, Rango, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, There Will Be Blood, Tombstone, True Grit (1969), True Grit (2010) and Wyatt Earp.

 

I see you’ve posted it on your site, and am I right in saying that that’s by far the biggest post ever on HQCovers? 😅

[heidl 491]

I'm not sure tbh... I think the biggest one is still Prometheus, unless you count all those individual covers for the RDR2 game rip. But I've worked longer on Prometheus

[rough cut 1,786]

2 hours ago, tintacle said:

I recognize some of these homages; Dances with Wolves, Django Unchained, Glory, Lincoln, Rango, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, There Will Be Blood, Tombstone, True Grit (1969), True Grit (2010) and Wyatt Earp.

 

You missed Brokeback Mountain.

[tintacle 324]

I know, that’s why I said some 

 

Which one is Brokeback?

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

8 hours ago, heidl said:

I'm not sure tbh... I think the biggest one is still Prometheus, unless you count all those individual covers for the RDR2 game rip. But I've worked longer on Prometheus

Is one of those an homage to Missouri Breaks?

[heidl 491]

22 hours ago, tintacle said:

I know, that’s why I said some 

 

Which one is Brokeback?

 

The gay looking one

 

 

15 hours ago, Fal J. M. Skywalker said:

Is one of those an homage to Missouri Breaks?

 

You're right! Very good

 

[1977 2,134]

A  few customs I built over the past couple of years...

 

[heidl 491]

Thomas Newman - 1917

 

 

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

Custom covers for Rozsa's All The Brothers Were Valiant:










@heidl

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

Two more:



 

Aaaaand an alt:

[heidl 491]

The image hoster ibb.co is reported as unsecure for me. The covers are not loading

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

10 hours ago, heidl said:

The image hoster ibb.co is reported as unsecure for me. The covers are not loading

How about now? switched to lensdump.

[tintacle 324]

1917- Thomas Newman

 

 

 

[santiagoec 1]

Hello everyone!

 

I was wondering if any of you could help me out, seeing as most of you are very skilled with photoshop. 

 

I bought the complete recordings of the three Lord of the Rings scores online, but I'm bothered by the fact that the three covers don't match since Return of the King's letter size is smaller than that of the other two and has a different texture. I would very much appreciate it if someone could alter said cover to match the other two. Here I leave the three covers for reference:

 

Also, does anyone know if this was a creative choice? I find it very strange that the covers don't match in wording size only on the digital realeses.

 

Thank you very much!

 

 

 

[Jay 46,244]

Huh that's weird, how did I never noticed that before?

[Jurassic Shark 16,430]

I'm sure Doug has an explanation for it.

[Evanus 428]

Yeah, it's weird. I made a matching one for RotK a while ago:

 

 

It's not perfect, but better than nothing 

[santiagoec 1]

2 hours ago, Evanus said:

Yeah, it's weird. I made a matching one for RotK a while ago:

 

 

It's not perfect, but better than nothing 

That is great! Just what I was looking for!

 

Thank you very much for sharing

[Evanus 428]

49 minutes ago, santiagoec said:

That is great! Just what I was looking for!

 

Thank you very much for sharing

No problem 

[Pieter Boelen 1,032]

On 12/1/2019 at 9:48 AM, JTWfan77 said:

 

Wait, what's the music to Temple of the Forbidden Eye like?

Does that feature any original music by anyone?

[Jay 46,244]

1 minute ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Wait, what's the music to Temple of the Forbidden Eye like?

Does that feature any original music by anyone?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_Adventure#Music

[Pieter Boelen 1,032]

That was fast!

And yep, that explains it perfectly well.

 

So... technically it IS semi-unique content.

Never knew.

[Rachael Foley 10,162]

5 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Wait, what's the music to Temple of the Forbidden Eye like?

Does that feature any original music by anyone?

It's pretty much an rearrangement of music from the trilogy.

 

 

[1977 2,134]

I could never find a decent cover that used the teaser poster art (the Fox Music one is all kinds of awful) so I made my own:

 

[CinderTech 1,810]

I like the choice of image, but the font feels a bit cheap. Not sure what else I'd choose though.

[1977 2,134]

 

 

Same font used as the original art campaign for the two films

[rough cut 1,786]

22 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:

 

Definitely better than the original cover art.

 

[A. A. Ron 2,485]

16 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:

I could never find a decent cover that used the teaser poster art (the Fox Music one is all kinds of awful) so I made my own:

 

I like it. I think I’d extend the black from the logo to the bottom of the image though.

[1977 2,134]

3 hours ago, A. A. Ron said:

I like it. I think I’d extend the black from the logo to the bottom of the image though.

 

I tried that but it looked off to me. I also wanted to preserve as much of the art as possible (it's already heavily cropped). I didn't want to place the composer credit above the title. Perhaps I'll revisit it and post for your comments/suggestions.

[rough cut 1,786]

Maybe instead of black, you should try the background blue of the original cover. That would soften it up. (Also, it would tie in nicely with the blue sky).

[A. A. Ron 2,485]

5 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:

 

I tried that but it looked off to me. I also wanted to preserve as much of the art as possible (it's already heavily cropped). I didn't want to place the composer credit above the title. Perhaps I'll revisit it and post for your comments/suggestions.

 

Makes sense. Like I said, it still looks good either way.

 

Edit to add: I ended up taking my own stab at @JTWfan77's design.

 

[rough cut 1,786]

Good work, but that heavy amount of black is not blending well with the overall image.

[A. A. Ron 2,485]

5 hours ago, rough cut said:

Good work, but that heavy amount of black is not blending well with the overall image.

Is there a color you think would work better for that bottom part?

[Jurassic Shark 16,430]

Pink.

[1977 2,134]

3 new variants:

 

 

 

 

For the last one I had to combine a rather bad scan of the UK quad poster with the original image I used in my first variant, in order to increase the width of the artwork and reduce cropping.

[rough cut 1,786]

My favorite is definitely #2 - worked quite well with the blue or what do you think?

 

I do, however, like the updated artwork on #3. The “zoom” out adds scale and allows the artwork to breathe.

 

Any chance of you doing a mash up of cover #2 and #3 - that is, the “logo in a blue band” on top of the revised (I can’t see that it’s a bad scan) artwork? (Or is the bottom of the new scan missing?)

 

Then I think you’ll have nailed it. 

[A. A. Ron 2,485]

That zoom out looks great!

[1977 2,134]

1 hour ago, rough cut said:

Any chance of you doing a mash up of cover #2 and #3 - that is, the “logo in a blue band” on top of the revised (I can’t see that it’s a bad scan) artwork? (Or is the bottom of the new scan missing?)

 

Then I think you’ll have nailed it. 

 

It's as you guessed, the artwork is not square therefore the blue band is hiding the hole. I tried adding a deeper blue to the top of the sky but my limited skills failed me, also having too much empty space above the statue messes up the composition.

 

Here is the scan I had to work with:

 

 

As you can see it's distorted in various ways so I had to slice it up and straighten everything out. Then I used the statue element from my other scan and painted out the text at the bottom on the water (left and right). My main challenge was blending the two sky elements and that is where the cracks show if you look closely at the end result.