I don’t know why, but a few days ago, late at night, I was thinking about all my “failed” attempts at creating well-crafted cover art. I was visiting the Final Fantasy Shrine Forums, browsing through all that awesome cover art posted there and I wondered how much time the people over there invest in this creative, time-consuming hobby. Are they as nitpicky as me? Everyone loves his own creations, otherwise we wouldn’t publish it, but for my part it sometimes degenerates a bit. I often spend hours on one single image. I’ve created one cover with thirty-three different font types,…
Tag: The Ring Two
“The Ring” & “The Ring Two” by Hans Zimmer, Henning Lohner, Martin Tillman
Let me tell you something you probably didn’t know: Creating these covers is pretty simple! It’s basically always the same: I stumble upon a soundtrack in my iTunes library which surprisingly has its original artwork still attached to the file or a new release on the web that strikes my nerve. I turn the entire internet upside down and, over the course of a few weeks, gather all possible and impossible source material related to the film in the slightest. I listen to the damn thing over and over, trying to fully get it, you know. Simultaneousely I scatter through…