B-Movie Entry: Paul Frey

#21

Wow, really nice work! It looks really authentic! So I would vote for the grungy aged version… maybe you could lower the yellowing a bit so it’s not quite so aged, but overall - I like it! It adds to the authenticity :thumbsup:
The one area that feels like it still needs some more love is her dress, which doesn’t feel nearly as finished as the rest of the piece.
Good luck!

#22

Michael,
Thanks so much for taking the time to look at my piece. I’m honored. You have such an amazing portfolio! I just finished reading a couple workshop entries of yours at CGSociety and on Imagine FX yesterday. Great inspirational stuff.
The dress needs work. It’s pretty obvious I didn’t have much in the way of reference material for it. I need to track down some references and get on it.

Thanks

#23

Here’s some reference for you.
Why not just add some sparkles like in the original dress?

http://6.media.tumblr.com/EYE8n31KDqd87bnaB0OcOcQuo1_400.jpg
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6321506

#24

Webhead,
I used that reference for her body (stance, etc) but it was not detailed enough for her dress. My first attempt at reproducing the look of that dress turned out looking like she had “pustules” :wink: My rendering skills aren’t that great when it comes to embellishing on an unclear reference. I either stick with a better rendering of satin or maybe some of kind of pattern hinting at jewels perhaps.

Thanks

#25

I reworked the dress. Much happier with this version. I also dialed down the yellow aging effect. I think I’m very close to being finished. Looking for feedback.

#26

While you’ve done a lot of work in regards to the background & over all styling of the poster (which is spot on by the way), the main focus of the image is the characters and the fact that these have been 99% traced from original publicity photographs for the film lets the image down.

#27

Thanks for taking the time to review and comment my entry. But I think you missed the point of the main focus of the image (or you didn’t miss it exactly just misintrepreted it). If you take a look at the posters at the site http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com you’ll find that this technique was used very often in the 50’s 60’s SciFi movie posters. Where I imagine to drum up support for a movie before it was even released (because funding would cause shooting to run right up to the release), they would have just an artist concept sketch and maybe a few pre production photos. With these, they’d have to cobble something together quickly to get the word out about the movie as quickly as possible.
That’s why many of these old movie posters showed low production quality, paint overs and in the case of the Forbidden Planet, actual photographs that were altered to attempt to look like they were painted. The characters in these posters often looked like cardboard cutouts pasted over some artist’s concept painting for the film.
Perhaps the judges will feel as you do. I hope not. I would imagine that they did the homework and looked very closely at the genre. To see that I did a good job at capturing the look and feel of those old SciFi movie posters.

#28

I completely see your point about the methods in which original posters were made - however, up until now you haven’t said that you were painting over photographs, nor have you posted the original sources.

I just wanted to say that given the amount of (great) work you’ve put into the image, I think you’re doing yourself a disservice by not stating your sources/methods from the get go.

Hope I’m not being too much of a dick.

#29

AJ,
I really don’t think anyone would not know that these are production photos from the film.
I did post the link in an early post that started this piece and most of the reference shots started from there:
http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/?s=forbidden+planet

Here are the rest of shots used:


#30

Software: Painter,Photoshop,Sketchup Pro

An homage to the Science Fiction movie posters of the 40’s and 50’s. When I was searching for reference material, I found production photos from the movie “The Forbidden Planet”. The production photos told me a very different story and sparked the idea of a “girl and a robot stranded on a doomed planet until our hero comes to save her”. Using these production photos with a 3D model I modeled, I rendered the final image in Corel Painter and Photoshop.
The background model was built and rendered in Google Sketchup Pro 6.5.
The painted image was created in Corel Painter X (using the cloning technique with the 3D model and production photos).
The aging, wrinkle effect and all text was added using Adobe Photoshop CS.

#31

Well, the contest is down to the last few days (or maybe day). There are so many great images being presented. I’m a little overwhelmed but challenged. Ready for the next contest!!

I also wanted to thank a few members for their contributions and comments on my submission:
I want to thank Ralph (archaeotect) for the composition advice.
I want to thank webhead for the text advice.
I want to thank Michael (walrus) for the advice on important details like the dress and toning down the grunge to not get in the way. Michael, your work also really inspired me.
I want to thank Alex (AJ) for his comments on my piece and reminding me I needed to make direct reference to my source images.

Good luck to everyone!!

#32

great job!, the colors are amazing

#33

Thanks Leo. I think your entry B-Movie Entry: Leonardo Silva is right on the money for this contest.

#34

Hello.

Hey, it is a real funny and original result, you did a lot of wonderful work. You’ve achieved a great 50’s atmosphere.

Congratulations.

#35

Thanks David. You know I think your Princess of Argon entry is fantastic. I think we both really captured the look of this genre :wink:

Good luck.

#36

That’s a damn cool poster, love those colours (and it has my favourite robot too!) Good luck

#37

My favorite robot too. Took a look at your site. Wow, Simon, you’re stuff is so beautiful and fantastic!! I bookmarked it immediately :slight_smile:

#38

That’s so spot on I thought it was a reference image.

Great job and good luck! :thumbsup:

#39

:buttrock:the idea is totaly a Bmovie
great image, good luck

cheers

#40

Thanks Bill (Quadart) and Joao (Andias) for the great comments. Good luck to you guys too!!