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Offline Andy Tran

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Broadway Poster

on: May 28, 2006, 10:32:37 am
 I am doing a choir project in which I have to do the poster for a broadway project of once upon a mattress.

 

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Re: Broadway Poster

Reply #1 on: May 28, 2006, 09:04:13 pm
...So you choose pixel art??  :D
It's very noice. One thing I'd pick at, though, is the use of select-copy-paste-reflect. It makes weirdness with lightsources. Of course, it's just a poster, so it makes me wonder why you pixeled the whole thing.
The rock walls are very very sexy.
The text has you written all over it.

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Re: Broadway Poster

Reply #2 on: May 28, 2006, 10:34:53 pm
Wheres the mattress?

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Re: Broadway Poster

Reply #3 on: May 29, 2006, 02:16:56 am
I have no idea what is going on in that picture.

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Re: Broadway Poster

Reply #4 on: May 29, 2006, 03:04:44 am
 It's more of a throne with a crown that kinda represents a princess's crown. Heh, thanks for the comments. I wanted to do jousts, but I am in a different team in the class.

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Re: Broadway Poster

Reply #5 on: May 29, 2006, 08:27:13 am
Cool scene!
I like the colors and the outer effect!
1 june? thats my birth day :)

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Re: Broadway Poster

Reply #6 on: May 29, 2006, 10:36:57 am
 I agree, the crazy azn gamer. I think my light sources are inconsistent. Art teachers probably will look at it when they are at the show and scream.

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Re: Broadway Poster

Reply #7 on: May 29, 2006, 04:17:27 pm
I just hope you arent the one paying for the printouts.  Just look at all the darks and the number of colors.  Its a fine advertisement, but from a logistical standpoint its an appauling poster design.  Other things that send up red flags include:

No playwrite's name anywhere, that actually is a legal issue that will need to be worked out before you continue
No name of the group performing it, which isnt quite on the same level as forgetting the playwrite but it lends to confusion etc
No location, how will they know where to go?

It also is very choppy, nothing transitions into anything else, its just sorta rectangles with patterns
Besides the crown, theres little else here that actually links it to the play.

Individual parts are well-done, but it all looks very rushed.  I suggest you put more time into this before you send it to the printers
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Re: Broadway Poster

Reply #8 on: May 29, 2006, 05:26:21 pm
pixel art is for TV screens and computer monitors. use adobe illustrator/photoshop for posters and other printed media. it'd be great for a once upon a mattress RPG title screen though =P

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Re: Broadway Poster

Reply #9 on: May 29, 2006, 05:45:07 pm
pixel art is for TV screens and computer monitors. use adobe illustrator/photoshop for posters and other printed media. it'd be great for a once upon a mattress RPG title screen though =P

I kinda agree with that...

If you want it pixelized, I think it needs to scream "pixels!"

Maybe try doing a super low-res 8-bit kinda thing...
This poster currently looks like it came from an old SNES Game, but I'm not really getting a pixel feel from it.

The play's a spin on the old story of "The Princess and the Pea", right? Maybe some mattresses stacked with a tiny green pea at the bottom? I think the play is supposed to be kind of a comedy, too. This looks a little too serious for a comedy.

Have you tried looking at other posters for the play? The all have a pretty similar motif: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=once+upon+a+mattress+poster

I'm not sure. I've never seen it. It's cool you're using pixels, though. Not sure if it's the best way to go, but interesting.

Also, is the plural for mattress mattresses or mattri?
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