This is my submission for Reed's official VGBA contest. I don't remember reading anywhere that it had to be a game, so I selected the anime Death Note. A great series in general and it has strong color symbolism with Light and L, so I thought it was quite clever. My only regret is that I didn't do a pic of Ryuk.
I made the imagery in Illustrator than ported it over to Photoshop.
I hope this is good enough to do well in the contest.
Thanks in advance for all comments/critiques/favs!
#2, The rear image of Light is from the first ending, and the apple shot kind reminds me of the end of the first opening. And like every time Light and L face off, they glow red and blue respectively, lol.
#9, Yes, I did do the vector myself. I can't take too much credit for the high contrast of the images, as I derived my drawings from official artwork, but I'll agree that it came together nicely, XD
I wish you had balanced some of the blue on the front, with some blue on the back cover - but regardless of that - it turned out great.
A minor nitpick - you could've added technical details of DVD, production company, e.t.c. to increase authenticity of the cover as well as filling the bottom of the back cover.
#11, I actually considered adding the production info on it, but I decided against it at the time. I may go back and add it yet, I agree that it would help make it legit.
For Drakxxx's and all previous comments so far, thanks!
This is my submission for Reed's official VGBA contest. I don't remember reading anywhere that it had to be a game, so I selected the anime Death Note. A great series in general and it has strong color symbolism with Light and L, so I thought it was quite clever. My only regret is that I didn't do a pic of Ryuk.
I made the imagery in Illustrator than ported it over to Photoshop.
I hope this is good enough to do well in the contest.
Thanks in advance for all comments/critiques/favs!
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Death Note is win! And the coloring on this boxart reminds me of the first opening where L is in somewhat blue colors and Light is in red colors. :)
And the old english font works really well :)
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#2, The rear image of Light is from the first ending, and the apple shot kind reminds me of the end of the first opening. And like every time Light and L face off, they glow red and blue respectively, lol.
I'm glad you like this!
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My favourite entry so far. Great job!
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There's something wrong with the thumbnail of this for some reason.
Nice box, I'm really digging the clean vector contrast.
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*crosses Death Note box off of list of things to be done right*
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Excellent job! I like the color contrasts of L and Light- its just like what the series does.
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#5, I know, maybe because I converted to GIF to make sure there weren't any mid colors?
Thanks for everybody else for their comments. I'm happy that people are enjoying this, and I sure hope that this has a chance at winning the contest.
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Very interesting. Very clean. Did you do the vector art yourself? I have to say that's some impressive use of shadow there. :D
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#9, Yes, I did do the vector myself. I can't take too much credit for the high contrast of the images, as I derived my drawings from official artwork, but I'll agree that it came together nicely, XD
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Very stylish cover.
I wish you had balanced some of the blue on the front, with some blue on the back cover - but regardless of that - it turned out great.
A minor nitpick - you could've added technical details of DVD, production company, e.t.c. to increase authenticity of the cover as well as filling the bottom of the back cover.
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Terrific stuff man. The drawings came out superb, and you've balanced out the color wonderfully.
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#11, I actually considered adding the production info on it, but I decided against it at the time. I may go back and add it yet, I agree that it would help make it legit.
For Drakxxx's and all previous comments so far, thanks!
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Oh man! That is just amazing! So creative, my favorite entry so far!
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Honestly my favorite out of all the entries in the contest!
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