Summer 2015 Graphical Workshop Thread (Rules and Announcement)

Just wanted to double check on the size/resolution.

The example you gave is 1200x900, but the minimum resolution is A4/letter at 300 dpi, which comes out to about 3300 x 2550 pixels, by my calculations.

What would the minimum 4x3 ratio be, in pixels?

Could y'all update the rules to reflect this discussion, with the disambiguation and whatnot?

Hell, yes. I'm totally in. I have one concept pretty far along and another one in the planning stages.

I had an idea that got rejected for formating concerns. may or may not do it without, depending on how busy my summer turns out

I'll really try to submit something, got a few ideas

How are folks coming along with their manips?

Who are your leading ladies? I have Melissa Benoist (you may not have heard of her, but something tells me she'd make a great Supergirl ) and Emma Stone, with Jennifer Lawrence and Amanda Seyfried in scene-stealing cameo roles.

My manip is still a work in progress. It'll either be pretty cool or hot garbage. :/

So far my cast is Ashley Benson and Jessica Chastain with a few yet to be cast.

My entries are en route via the mysterious aether of email.

fats wrote: and they have been received

Fats

And there was much rejoicing. And feasting on trout.

So with the new deadline fast approaching I'm curious how far along people who plan to submit are.

Im in Good luck to everybody

(this may not be the thread for this but well)

Things piled up and working on my movie didn't have time to really get an entry in- but had a lot of good stuff though did come in. My thoughts on the contest entries.

Supergirlstart

Very intresting costume-liked how dark its with the armor-it almost something out of a thor movie. And the dark know idea what it is but intrestingbackground goes very well with it. this looks like a supergirl who is ready for business, for establishing that she is going to beat people up. Like the lens flair on the logo

The problem i would have with it is that the head looks a little werid, like its ever so slightly in a diffrent picture-however that could be a feature not a bug. however i really like the realitivly gentile face and hair which does a lot to sofften the image and makes it feel etheral.

The Font at the bottom is boilerplate but not going to hold that to hard agianst it.

This looks like the making of a very kind of intresting warrior movie-and for some reason...i think this movie is going to be shot in england. It has a big budget shot in england look to it

Supergirl Crisis by 67

This one tells a story and creates a scene, which does a lot to introduce dynamism to it, with the three with the characters.

Like the background a lot of this picture-thats the strongest ellement how darksided, the earth and the black at the bottom all coalese into a single frame, and as a peice of background that really does work with the font at the bottom. Its very strong

the problem...well is the foreground The russian supergirl and the in black supergirl bodies look fine. not great but the photoshoping is obvious-especially once the faces are put on. That the jennifer lawrence face looks like shes somewhere else is a turnoff. Seyfield one looks better with the heat ray vission is dynamic, but not great.

And the Benoist one....well i see what your trying with the costume, but it does like it could have used a lighting pass to make it seem part of the same image(and the supergirl logo well). The face looks okay. though, and i like the expression.

This is dynamic though and if where judging on ideas, this could make an intresting superhero movie. Super stories in comics once you go beyond the origin stuff often work very well when you go to pure science fiction-and the idea of three versions of the same character..that could be kind of neat. This could be an intresting episode of the TV series if nothing else(obviously), and that is something

Supergirl Argo City by G7

Some of the same stuff as G7s other entry, though in someways better.

Amazing background-city sky etc. looks amazing-i might say the best of the bunch.

Costume looks good and if the logo doesn't quite match its very strong. I like the Fact that this costumes makes Emma Stone a little realistically curvy with her hips being the main feature of the shot. That works and i like how the costumes two colors and emmas hair match-and well i think the photoshop of her face looks much much better then the previous entry.

The 'Juliane Moore bubble' (a phrase that i like saying "Julliane Moore Bubble") looks really 80s poser design...and when i first saw it i didn't like it..but writing this its growing on me. it does have a kind of older post feel to it, which isn't bad, the kind of sence that we have to work in a star but not with the design. like how it integrates with the U as almost an afterthought, which is not a critique.

As a peice of photoshop its pretty good. The problem i would have is....well i am not getting Argo city here. We don't see it or express it. The title and tagline are telling us a story or suggesting one without showing it. If your other design suggested a story this one is just Emma Stone...and in Argo City bad stuff is going to happen.

But yeah-i like it. it almost feels as if this feel to a sequal that emma stone stars in to the 19

One Girl Army by Unseen Unheard.

If you took this to Warner brothers as a mockup to show them your idea for Supergirl versus a bunch of Villaness- i think its great. This is by far the most dynamic battle scene image we have, and in someway looks like a modern movie poster. That dynamism is worth a lot of points as we have a clear image, clear heroines, clear villians in a crowded but exciting image

Like the old school logo and old school design of supergirl.

But welst....the problem is the photoshop isn't great. It conveys the idea, but its by no means photorealstic.

But the dynamism and design does work for it, this is a big battle with a lot of clever deisgns and contrasting colors and an intresting central triangle creates is impressive and the sence that every square inch something is happen creates an image thats neat to look at, and suggests a story and movie that will be a lot of fun.

Which is perhaps the best line about it: Of all the posters this one looks like it has the funnest movie.

Supergirl Poster by no look past

The other day i past by a big billboard for the Supergirl show ( the fact that i was going past the CBS studios maybe had something to do with it). Its a great shot of Benoist flying and does a lot of dynamic shots of lighting effects etc. and they did that trick kind of where her hand left the rectangular plane as if bursting out.

This is a lot better then that.

This is dynamic, fascinating directly integrates foreground and background and creates action and chaos with the point of grace in the center being her. Calm in the middle. strong confidant present

The colors look fantastic, the shading looks great, and if the logo is something we have seen before looks good. Every square inch has some excitment to it.

Looking at it closely..is the photoshop perfect? No. you can see some matte But you have to look pretty closeup to see it. this seems like a painting and as a painting it really feels bueatifully created with the car, the city and the eyes all being one hyper strong images. this is dynamism defined.

This looks a lot like something from a modern DC movie-but honestly looks better at a distance then anything from a modern DC movie.

Supergirl by Pansardum

I like the idea of Alien Supergirl, of the stranger coming to earth and not really sure what that means. I have played around with script ideas for it i will be honest, and if i where making Supergirl movie thats the angle i would take. Its a much simplier story then some of the other supergirl stories, and this is a simplier poster. and that works for it.

Like the top in the clouds and the hyper simple logo and details-thats very readable and clever. I'll give it best logo award.

the poster itself conveys its stroy which does work for it-the craft, the costume and if supergirl looks a little like shes modeling for a perfume company thats something. the costume with its diapumus fabrics and leotard is intresting if not traditional, and the spacecraft if not to intresting is readable.

However the trick to a good alien on earth story is Awe: we have to sence that shes feeling something that this earth means something to her, be in fear, amazment or just wimsy-not really getting that here. .

Which is a good description: This is simple and readable. I would have a liked a little more awe though.

Fallen Angel by Lfan

Welst she looks like a badass here. and that not a bad thing. Shes beat up Superman, shes beat up Batman. Powergirl is here goddamit and thats something.

However i will make a comment: The overall layout looks more like a book cover to me with the higher placed title card then most movies and the choice of fonts. And thats not a bad thing, but i will comment that this feels a little less exciting then intended. Supergirl is going to kick some ass as a villianess.

We see her twice both as the front of a group and in the bottom pannel. The top has photos of characters, in the background of the bottom there defeated ( and i like how you do have to look for them-its not really obvious which gives a lot of depth to it).. After alll that fighting she is lifting a car with something-thats strong..but...

This feels a little effortless and not matter how strong or powerful a supergirl is-if your going to do a feature film there should be a sence of effort to it. Well maybe there was effort This looks like the last shot in the movie, which gives it a sence that your spoiling it man. your spoiling it.

But it is cool, and there is a look to the poster. If the Argo City poster felt retro, thats a word that almost seems to apply-almost. This looks like a movie that would never exist in our world-but i could imagine a world where it does, if that makes sence- a world where you can make a movie about supergirls just defeating other heros and being cool with it- a world where i will theroize the first boom in superhero movies in the early 80s didn't end. And that is a world you have made a poster for.

Overall a good contest and lots of neat entries doing all diffrent things. These all feel like posters for Different Supergirl movies, and i love the variety- it just goes to show how you could say Superheroines or superhero movies are all the same but really...

BTW, for the backgrounds, I made liberal use of stock from freeimages.com. They're a good resource, although they want you to buy stock from their sister site, so they mix in paid with free in the results.

www.freeimages.com/photo/insanity-1428713

www.freeimages.com/photo/galaxy-landscape-1144546

www.freeimages.com/photo/sun-rise-1148031