Custom Cover Blu-Ray Custom Cover art thread (1 Viewer)

[DrrnHarr]

Fritz's James Bond covers are so good I actually prefer them to my own.
Here are my 007 covers with the original TT's on the spine:

All are available at customaniacs.

 

[Fritz Nilsen]

Did you miss Bond?

Never Say Never Again. The U.S. poster by Rudy Obrero. Love the colours.

 

[Scott D S]

A friend of mine made a request and I was happy to oblige him.
There's nothing revolutionary here - the keyword was "simple."
It was also my friend's idea to have the key art bleed onto the spine. Apparently, my friend hates plain black spines. Who knew?

 

[DrrnHarr]

Excellent work Scott. Those are some of the best BTTF customs I have seen.

 

[Fritz Nilsen]

My penultimate James Bond cover, 1967's Casino Royale.

Only the "50 Years of Bond" bonus disc to go.

 

[Scott D S]

The latest...
Two Paramount titles and two WB titles, now with original key art:

By the way, I hope no one thinks I'm being lazy for only using one image on the back of the WB titles.
Hi-rez stills were hard to come by for Coma and I've actually never seen Altered States so I wouldn't know what to do with multiple images. (What good would they be if I don't understand the characters or their relationships?)

 

[Charles Smith]

A nice breath of fresh air seeing those after the brain-numbing commercial "concepts".

 

[Ken Leary]

Wishful thinking:

 

Hey,
Can you tell me how you make these kind of covers, i would like to make for my W.D player. Thanks

 

[Scott D S]

My latest... Kubrick titles - part 1:

A Clockwork Orange cover art by Rhys Cooper/Studio Seppuku. Permission granted for personal, non-profit use.

 

[Fritz Nilsen]

Here's one I've done for the forthcoming Mill Creek release of Deep Rising after a month of semi-retirement from cover making.

This has to be the least subtle cover I've ever done. The movie just seems to call for a border-line cheesy approach. I went all out for the front: Big explosion, high-contrast, sparks flying, slanted poster and riveted title treatment.
I even threw my usual spoiler-caution to the wind and included some of the biggest money-shots on the back. This is a bonafide tongue-in-cheek monster flick and I think this cover milks that aspect to the max. So much fun to do!
A Bold, busy and brash cover all the way, like the film itself.
Available by PM or at CustoManiacs.

 

[David Weicker]

Fritz,
I was wondering how your Commission process works. I was also wondering if you were maybe planning on doing something with the Universal Monsters set.
If you want to keep that private, you can PM me.
David

 

[Fritz Nilsen]

Originally Posted by Ken Leary /t/314247/blu-ray-custom-cover-art-thread/240#post_3961896
Hey,
Can you tell me how you make these kind of covers, i would like to make for my W.D player. Thanks

Hi.
You mean the Steelbook preview? I handmade that in Photoshop. To fit the artwork on it takes quite a bit of legerdemain, so I don't think it would be feasible for multiple covers just to use as display icons in a media player.

Fritz

 

[Fritz Nilsen]

Originally Posted by David Weicker /t/314247/blu-ray-custom-cover-art-thread/270#post_3967406
Fritz,
I was wondering how your Commission process works. I was also wondering if you were maybe planning on doing something with the Universal Monsters set.
If you want to keep that private, you can PM me.
David

Hi David.

Usually someone PMs me with an idea for a cover, be it a Blu-ray, DVD, CD or anything else. I look into it (complexity, available images etc.) and quote them a price. They agree or not.

There's usually some back and forth with the client about revisions, and the whole process takes about a week. (I don't do this full time).

It's important to note that I do not claim ownership or compensation for copyrighted images or logos, I just charge for the actual work-hours spent on assembling the elements.

The resulting cover is for the client's personal use only and may not be used for profit.

No plans for a Monster set myself at the moment. Sorry.

Fritz

 

[Fritz Nilsen]

Hi guys.
Look what I came across today; my handmade custom VHS cover for Cobra.

Gather 'round, children, and let grandpa Fritz tell you about the days before DTP and Photoshop. This was literally cut and paste.
The year was 1986 (I was 14), and I had just gotten hold of a camcorded bootleg of Stallone's most recent masterpiece. Naturally I wanted to make a faux cover for it.
I made this from adverts and articles cut out of magazines. I didn't have any black paper so I used a marker for the background. I cut out a frame in the paper so the Cobra poster would have a nice border. Lots of logos in the Warner catalogs of the day also came in handy. Even then I thought the BBFC certificate gave it an air of authenticity
The tagline on the front and the text on the back were added with my trusty Canon electric typewriter. It wasn't supposed to come out so crooked, but the paper slipped, I remember. I had glued the images on before cramming the thing into the typewriter. Bad idea. I think I actually wrote that synopsis myself, bad punctuation and all. (Hey, English is my second language.)
God knows where I got the Warner "hologram" sticker, but probably from a rental tape. I think I got the actual Warner case by switching out a generic case I had with a rental tape also. I had (have) no shame.
Anyway, I think this was the last custom cover I did until I started doing the Blu-ray covers last year. A gap of 25 years. Wonder what I would have done if I had Photoshop back then? I would probably have made a lot more customs, to be sure.
Here's the insert. (Click to enlarge)

 

[Thornhill]

Very very cool Fritz, very nice to see your beginnings.

 

[Fritz Nilsen]

Thanks, Thornhill. Took the afternoon to finish one of my many WIPs clogging up my WIP folder.
Jurassic Park Trilogy featuring J.C. Richard's poster for Mondo.

Sources for the poster are somewhat limited, but I managed to upscale it with few artifacts. I've mentioned it before, but artwork is very forgiving when upscaled.
I'm most proud of finding screenshots for the back that matched the colour scheme of the poster. I sweat the details!
This was begun as a commission where the client didn't follow through. That certain gentleman may not PM me about this, but everyone else feel free.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Fritz:

LOVED the Cobra cover...so cool to see something like that!

And that JP cover is just killer. Exactly the right choice of cover art.

 

[Charles Smith]

Fritz, thanks for sharing the cut-and-paste VHS cover! Been there, done that -- with a few VHS tapes, audio cassettes, and maybe even a CD or two. And you know what? I can come across those efforts now and still have great affection for them, and for the period of time they take me back to.

 

[rayman1701]

Very cool Fritz. That story and VHS cover are just awesome, wish I had that kind of creativity and the patience to pull it off, either at 14 or now. But my mind is more musical than visual, oh well we all have our specialties.

 

[Scott D S]

Fritz -
Cool story! (And cool cover, too.)
I was 14 in 1997 and DVDs were just around the corner for me. And since my family rarely purchased movies anyway, I never had the need to make my own covers.
(I did make my own cover for a damaged Super Mario Bros. players guide but nothing as fancy as your work.)