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2 (edited by BigDamnArtist 2013-06-13 12:55:34)

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Oh, I'll get there. I've been wanting to do a general "Teague vomits his stupid opinions about movie poster design" thread for a long time, but I wasn't actually prepared for that today, I just saw the Mondo poster and got excited as balls. Explanations and examples are coming.

Consider it a cold open? I dunno.

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ZangrethorDigital.ca

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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Does anyone know the name the book where Drew Struzan talks about the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull poster and how he decided to retire? I think it was mentioned on one of the podcasts

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Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of that Man of Steel poster. It's too busy and complex. Superman posters should be simple and to-the-point.

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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I generally don't like the Mondo posters, they just cram as much shit into every frame as possible and it ends up looking like an ugly mess.

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Mondo is pretty hit and miss.

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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Yeah, floating heads always seem to be just a fallback if they either have no idea visually or are bound to sell the movie only through the big names- or both.

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I was going to say, that skull is crazy because it isn't really a skull.
Zarban beat me to it

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