I don't know if anyone's interested in these, but I figured I'd post them anyway.
I started making my own covers to replace the covers of movies that I had picked up at conventions. The covers were mostly shit, images that looked like they were originally the size of a postage stamp blown up to fill the space of a front cover. Then I started doing them to have covers for movies acquired elsewhere.

Here's a few of my first attempts. Put together actually size in MS Paint. Looking at them now, they kinda suck.

Here's a couple recent ones I've done since The Modfather hooked my up with the Gimp program.

I also do my own labels:

These look great!

Thanks Ross.

Here's a couple I've redone.

First attempt in Paint:



Second, still using Paint:

Paint:



Gimp:


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Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad movies. Probably should redo these one day.

A couple more early ones:

Very nice. They look better than most of the "legit" DVD covers out there. I love reverence for old movie poster-styled graphics.

I love the old movie posters. The last few covers I've done I did just to use the old posters and replace the covers that came with the legit DVDs. Case in point:

Did this one because I liked this poster better (Italian version I believe, redid all the lettering), and I hate the snap cases the original DVD came in. Plus, Warner Bros. had a photo of a woman on the back cover from the wrong movie.


Did this one to replace the photo cover on the original DVD. Couldn't decide between the two posters I found, so I did them both. (This happens frequently.) Cheated a bit on this one, the back cover is from the UK release, I just redid the Special Features, movie credits, and tech data at the bottom to match the US release.

Those Sinbad ones are awesome - I have the DVDs and your covers are far superior.

The posters for the flicks were awesome, gave me something good to work with.

Just finished:


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Which one of these is your favorite movie?

Of the covers I've posted so far, Horror of Dracula.

Horror of Dracula has Cushing and Lee. I want to see that!

I have seen the two Sinbad flics. I wouldn't mind seeing those again. Harryhausen makes everything a little more fun.

I have also always wanted to see Secret of the Incas, just to see the unacknowledged inspiration for Indian Jones. Is it worth it?

The Warlord with Charlton Heston needs one of your custom covers!

Horror of Dracula is a great flick. Warner Bros will be re-releasing through TCM in September in a set with three other movies. Can't find an Amazon link, but here's the announcement:

http://www.dvddrive-in.com/index.htm

The one time I got to watch Secret of the Incas, family arrived a few minutes after it started, I'm afraid I didn't get much chance to pay attention to it. I remember some awful singing going on though.

Never heard of it...poster doesn't look bad.

Some more...





This one was the start of a collection, just never got around to completing anything past Vol. 1.

These are great. I think you should definitely keep doing them.

Thanks Derek. Just checked your color thread, some really good work there yourself.

I don't think it does the movie justice.