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On 02/03/2023 at 8:11 PM, Steffromuk said:

It's completely random most of the time.

It often comes from some scores in my playlist that have covers I dislike. I go search for high quality and if possible unusual promo art or rejected art.

Sometimes it can take months or even years before I find the right visual.

Sometimes while searching for one movie material I come across another that inspires me, then I end up doing a different cover than I planned.

For the series (like Jaws, the 90s Batman series or Planet of the apes) I collect a bunch of visuals over the years, until I find an idea to unify all and create a cohérent set of covers.

 

Dude, somehow I'm almost glad that you hardly ever tackle current scores. Otherwise I would have no reason at all to design covers myself 

 

 

On 24/02/2023 at 12:56 AM, A Farewell to Kings said:

Anybody know of where to find:

 

1: Custom cover templates for photoshop, for boxsets and whatnot.

 

2: something that generates mockups for media sets, I had found something like that, when I was a member of Originaltrilogy.com, but I don't remember what it was!

 

I have a few good sources for Photoshop mockup templates:

 

https://www.flyerwrk.com/collections/mockups

https://blkmarket.com/product-category/mockups/music/

https://graphicriver.net/graphics/product-mock-ups/packaging/discs?sort=sales#content

https://creativemarket.com/search/disc-photoshop-mockup?categoryIDs=0

 

 

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On 31/12/2022 at 10:10 AM, Laserschwert said:

Those aren't templates, I built those shots myself in Blender.

 

Impressive... most impressive.

 

We will follow your career with great interest. 

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18 hours ago, Laserschwert said:

Inspired by the great Jim Titus, I had to put these mockups together. Never gonna happen, probably, but a man can dream!

 

 

 

 

Wow, brilliant work mate! Where can I get these mockup templates? I absolutely need these in my ever growing collection.

 

*insertdarthgriviousgif*

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I worked a bit more on the Avatar films and even made a new blog post about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bones and All (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)

 

 

 

 

 

The Witch (Mark Korven)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avatar: The Way of Water (Simon Franglen)

 

 

 

By the way, I just noticed while recreating the design that the text and logo in the original Avatar soundtrack cover are not centered horizontally, for whatever reason. I'll probably have to remake that as well now.

 

***EDIT***
Here they are (plus a few more)

 

 

 

 

 

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On 18/11/2022 at 5:20 PM, Steffromuk said:

It was actually an accident. They found my cover art online and didn't know I was the designer. It seemed that it was credited to Casaro (which in a way makes sense) and since all Casaro's Conan art is the property of Universal, they genuinely thought this was part of the material they could use.
After contacting them, they offered to credit me and we resolved the issue. I hope it opens the way to future collaborations 

 

Good to know that labels are out there googling for source material just like we do.

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On 12/11/2022 at 5:00 PM, Steffromuk said:

Since Intrada announced the long awaited release of Conan the Destroyer, and I had the honor to have my work used for their B side cover, I guess it's a good time to post all my Conan related covers.

 

 

Wow, congrats on the gig! Have you been contacted by Intrada out of the blue or how did this come about?

You seem like the perfect match for Intrada's classical releases anyway to me and I'm surprised you're not their regular go-to-guy yet

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On 04/11/2022 at 1:34 PM, Mr. Who said:

Very nice work! Will you do a set for the Hobbit Symphony?

Well I can, but what for? There's no Hobbit Symphony out there, or is it?

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The Lord of the Rings Symphony (Howard Shore)

 

Expansion of my existing LotR/Hobbit collection.

 

 

CD versions:

 

 

 

 

Vinyl version:

 

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On 20/10/2022 at 7:51 PM, Steffromuk said:

Thank you!

I make all my covers at 4000x4000px (A bit over the size of a 12" record cover)

I spend A LOT of time browsing the web in search of the best material. The highest res pictures I can find. Then I restore them and often re-balance the tones and colors. And when necessary, I upscale them using a combination of the Photoshop AI upscaling tool and a website dedicated to photo upscaling.

For the CANNON cover I used this photo from Getty images (removed the "gettyimages" watermark in Photoshop) and applied a halftone effect.

And I recreated the design from the opening of the show in the background.

 

And I rebuilt the title logo in Illustrator

That's fascinating to read, thank you! 4000x4000 is huge, holy cow! Your workflow is almost a kind of reverse engineering. I've done this on many of my tribute covers as well, and I have to say it's really one of the best ways to learn new techniques.

 

Do you mind recommending me a good upscale tool for Photoshop? Or did you mean the built-in resizer? I regularly use letsenhance.ai, but you never know beforehand what you're gonna get. A good Photoshop plugin would certainly be more helpful.

Also, nice to meet a fellow designer who removes the GettyImages watermark by hand as well. Those greedy bastards surely won't get any money from me 

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Your covers are always so incredibly sharp and vibrating, what's your secret?
e.g. Cannon, what changes did you make to it? What did the source image look like?

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Hi there @Steffromuk!

 

Great to see that you've found your way over here from the FSM Board

 

I'm a long time admirer of your work, your Flickr page is always one of my go-to places when I look for a certain cover. And your covers are among the best I have ever seen!

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The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit (Howard Shore, Bear McCreary)

 

Sorry for this giant dump, but I've been sitting a bit more on my LotR and Hobbits covers, changing lots and lots of details. These are as accurate as I can make them and I consider them to be final. Alternate colours will come later. Hope you like em!

 

CD versions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vinyl versions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Justanothercrow421 said:

@heidl Would you be willing to do a color swap for the first set of LOTR trilogy complete scores to match the original DVD color schemes?

 

Fellowship: green

Towers: red

King: blue

 

I'm willing but you have to know that the elvish runes and the map are baked into the image. So if you don't give a damn about the map in the background, I can just change the film title and give it a go. Or you're willing to wait a little longer? Because since the covers above are based on the original Vinyl sleeves, I'm currently working on alternate versions which will be assembled from individual graphic assets. But that will still take a while.

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The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit (Howard Shore, Bear McCreary)

 

Remakes and/or custom edits of the original designs with enhanced typography (fonts, spacing and kerning) and graphics (shadows, contrasts and placement) for seamless transitions on your digital media librabry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore, Bear McCreary)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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NOPE by Michael Abels

 

 

 

 

 

[Bear McCreary's The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)]

I'm not enough of a LotR, Shore or Bear fan to allow me to give an opinion on the score. But I read through the thread and as far as I understand it, Amazon doesn't have the rights to use existing LotR material, whether it's set/prop designs or, well, Howard Shore's music, right? 

 

Why in God's name didn't they buy those rights?

Did they not want to or were they not allowed to?

It can't be because of money, can it?

 

IMHO Shore's music could have been, even should have been, the most important connector between the films and the series.

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Don't know if you guys appreciate scores like these, but anyway here are some of my newest creations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[williams getting old]

But he is also still old.

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I have no fucking clue tbh.... it has to be something classic and timeless, but still captivating and visually pleasing. Maybe that's why Disney hasn't gotten off the ground yet... 

[williams getting old]

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3 minutes ago, Holko said:

I was genuinely getting angry until I got to this part and checked which thread we're in

You're too good!

 

Ha ha, got ya! 

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Some of you might know my Deluxe Editions Collection that has been available on my blog for a couple years now.

 

I recently gave it a bit of an overhaul by adding the following 3 covers and thus bringing it closer to my own credo of "depicting famous locations before or long after certain key events".

 

 

 

 

I have also added many alternative version to my blog post so please take a look if you're interested.