Bungie is a world-leading game development studio with an awarded mantle of games. The Halo series serves as the pinnacle of the company's accomplishments, but the design team has moved on to new ventures. Destiny is the next title coming from these champions of entertainment, where the hope is to outdo even Halo.
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Third challenge! Destiny Movie Posters! Right after winning the Your Worst Nightmare contest, another event was raised.
Way too much time was spent on these distractions. It was hard trying to find iconic, easily manipulated, unlikely to be imitated posters for the Destiny game. Though there were a few that were gathered to paint on, but things like Watchmen (not a movie poster, but the novel is really legit), District 9, 300, and Avatar are real winners. (Google the titles to find my resources; all rights reserved to their respective owners.)
To take on the Watchmen, all that had to be done was to remove the old smiley-face and text on the cover and replace it with Bungie-centric design. Pretty self-explanatory, and probably the easiest of the four pieces created (though faking thin shadows is uber-lame).
District 9 was the longest piece out of all of them. Reasons for this came in the form of the choppers on the original poster, but for Destiny, the space needed jets and spacecraft. If only I had studied industrial design...
Be sure to check the smaller details, like a destroyed skyline and the Vex baddie on the sign!
300. What a testosterone-fest. I've messed with the image for school projects before, so jumping back in to redo the setup was pretty easy. Adding the Traveler orb in the back, gun fire, extra arms and red eyes on the baddies, and replacing the title were all rudimentary Photoshop tricks (no Space Magic here!).
Lastly, the titan-of-a-movie Avatar. There's a race of playable characters called "Awoken" in Destiny, and they have grey skin, yellow eyes. With an eye and nose adjustment on the original portrait, the Na'vi (blue cat people in Avatar) became somewhat human in structure. Desaturation, color layers, and a bunch of levels-adjustments rendered the final product.
And the final result! (Psst - recognize anything in the background?)
Really fun stuff - all of it. Before I get too nostalgic here and return to my tablet, I best wrap this up and program some game mechanics. Or play games (hey, that's research, too!).
If you missed the Hero or the Nightmare, please give them a read. I'm skipping a write-up of the final challenge I participated in, but you can see it here - can you guess who's playing Destiny?
Way too much time was spent on these distractions. It was hard trying to find iconic, easily manipulated, unlikely to be imitated posters for the Destiny game. Though there were a few that were gathered to paint on, but things like Watchmen (not a movie poster, but the novel is really legit), District 9, 300, and Avatar are real winners. (Google the titles to find my resources; all rights reserved to their respective owners.)
To take on the Watchmen, all that had to be done was to remove the old smiley-face and text on the cover and replace it with Bungie-centric design. Pretty self-explanatory, and probably the easiest of the four pieces created (though faking thin shadows is uber-lame).
District 9 was the longest piece out of all of them. Reasons for this came in the form of the choppers on the original poster, but for Destiny, the space needed jets and spacecraft. If only I had studied industrial design...
Be sure to check the smaller details, like a destroyed skyline and the Vex baddie on the sign!
300. What a testosterone-fest. I've messed with the image for school projects before, so jumping back in to redo the setup was pretty easy. Adding the Traveler orb in the back, gun fire, extra arms and red eyes on the baddies, and replacing the title were all rudimentary Photoshop tricks (no Space Magic here!).
Lastly, the titan-of-a-movie Avatar. There's a race of playable characters called "Awoken" in Destiny, and they have grey skin, yellow eyes. With an eye and nose adjustment on the original portrait, the Na'vi (blue cat people in Avatar) became somewhat human in structure. Desaturation, color layers, and a bunch of levels-adjustments rendered the final product.
And the final result! (Psst - recognize anything in the background?)
Really fun stuff - all of it. Before I get too nostalgic here and return to my tablet, I best wrap this up and program some game mechanics. Or play games (hey, that's research, too!).
If you missed the Hero or the Nightmare, please give them a read. I'm skipping a write-up of the final challenge I participated in, but you can see it here - can you guess who's playing Destiny?
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