Season Set Custom Covers

Ex-Dubbie369 · Post by **Ex-Dubbie369** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:59 am

Since I (and I'm sure many of you) don't like the package we get our Season Sets in, I decided to make some single covers of my own. The layout is really simple and similar to the actual boxsets on the front, and episode list on the back with the titles for both languages. The character pictures come from either Sparking Neo or Meteor, depending on what looked better, or what wasn't cut off by text in the case of some of the Meteor pictures.

Season 1:
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
Disc 5
Disc 6

Season 2:
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
Disc 5
Disc 6

Season 3
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
Disc 5
Disc 6

Enjoy!

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:03 am

They look good. Nice concepts overall, and I like how closely they match the layout and color scheme of the sets.

Two little things, though. The lettering on the backs doesn't look very good, and the characters could stand to be zoomed in a bit and/or positioned a little better for most of them.

Otherwise, they look very nice.

Ex-Dubbie369 · Post by **Ex-Dubbie369** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:11 am

SSj Kaboom wrote:and the characters could stand to be zoomed in a bit and/or positioned a little better for most of them.

The biggest offender of this is SSJ Goku on Season 3 Disc 5's cover, but that was because I couldn't get a picture with the rest of his hair, if you look at the picture on the Meteor site, there was no other way to place it.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:13 am

Ex-Dubbie369 wrote:
SSj Kaboom wrote:and the characters could stand to be zoomed in a bit and/or positioned a little better for most of them.
The biggest offender of this is SSJ Goku on Season 3 Disc 5's cover, but that was because I couldn't get a picture with the rest of his hair, if you look at the picture on the Meteor site, there was no other way to place it.

In that case, upsizing and cropping is you friend.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:47 am

Nice. I really don't like the fact that every CD looks the same with a zoomed in picture of eyes and just says, "Disk 1," "Disk 2," "Disk 3," and so on and so forth. That sucks. They look really cheap. The good news about the sets is that they're not completely useless. On a 4:3 TV, it crops the top, bottom, left, and right of the picture. When you have a widescreen DVD, it doens't crop the top or bottom (because of the black bars) so when you compare the picture of the "Remastered" picture to the picture you'd see on a 4:3 TV, the 4:3 TV's natural cropping makes the picture nearly identical (there's a bit more cropping on the bottom of the picture on the Widescreen versions). I guess it's not THAT bad really. The top looks the same and the bottom is a bit more cropped, but there is more footage on the sides. I mean basically, irregardless of the fact that on an HDTV, that cropping wouldn't be seen, if you were okay with watching the series on your 4:3 TV before with the natural cropping, it shouldn't be that big of a problem watching the sets. I think that the whole "heads and feet are cut off so much" is in peoples' heads ecause people didn't have any problems watching the series cropped out naturally due to their 4:3 TV. ANYWAYS, I really wouldn't like it if each DVD was released separately. That would blow. $15.00 per DVD, no thank you. I prefer to pay $40.00 for 6 DVDs, despite the fact that the packaging looks cheap.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:35 am

TheGreatness25 wrote:Nice. I really don't like the fact that every CD looks the same with a zoomed in picture of eyes and just says, "Disk 1," "Disk 2," "Disk 3," and so on and so forth. That sucks. They look really cheap. The good news about the sets is that they're not completely useless. On a 4:3 TV, it crops the top, bottom, left, and right of the picture. When you have a widescreen DVD, it doens't crop the top or bottom (because of the black bars) so when you compare the picture of the "Remastered" picture to the picture you'd see on a 4:3 TV, the 4:3 TV's natural cropping makes the picture nearly identical (there's a bit more cropping on the bottom of the picture on the Widescreen versions). I guess it's not THAT bad really. The top looks the same and the bottom is a bit more cropped, but there is more footage on the sides.

I'm not going to get into this since It's not a discussion of the season sets themselves, but I think you really need to see the comparison images.

As for the covers, I think they are a little better, but you made the same mistake as the Funimation covers, which was the awkward cropping of the artwork, and the back could definitely use something other than text.

Sorry if I was a little overcritical, it happens when you're a Graphic design student

Ex-Dubbie369 · Post by **Ex-Dubbie369** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:51 am

Captain Awesome wrote:Sorry if I was a little overcritical, it happens when you're a Graphic design student

No problem, considering I'm simply a musician who sorta knows how to use Photoshop. I'll be the first to admit that these were quick jobs. I just can't stand that other packaging.

Shin Moonwalker · Post by **Shin Moonwalker** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:42 am

SSj Kaboom wrote:Otherwise, they look very nice.

I'm sorry, but all I can see is something that looks like the funi cover, but "amateur-ish" and empty...

I mean, the Funimation ones look better than this, I don't get why would anyone make orange custom covers if many people complained about this color...
To me, they're just "downgraded" versions of the existing Funi ones.

Seriously, what does the fan-made cover have that the original doesn't have ?
Except that Funimation, the evil in its pure form, has created the second one, I don't see anything...

But well, still, thanks to Ex-Dubbie369 for the effort

Dan no saisei · Post by **Dan no saisei** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:01 am

i think the reason why he did make the fan-covers is because he dont like the BoxSets and would prefer slim cases for every Disk, like Toei did it with there release of DBZ

btw just an idea: take scans of the R2 covers and cut out the artwork and use them on your covers^^

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:33 am

Hey I got you. I don't really like the sets either, but it's better than singles because singles would be much more expensive. Where can you get 6 DVDs for $40.00? The Majin Buu Saga had 7 DVDs and sold for over $70.00

Oh and comparison images? Trust me, I know. When you take the original and pop it into the comp and compare, obviously there will be a huge amount of cropping. But if you read my post carefully, I was talking about when you watch it on a 4:3 TV, it naturally crops all the sides. I took snapshots of the original and took a snapshot of the "Remastered". Then, I took a picture of how it appears on a 4:3 TV.

ORIGINAL

"REMASTERED"

Yeah, I know, huge comparison, but compare the "Remastered" cropping to the naturally cropped original picture as it appears on a 4:3 TV.

4:3 PRESENTATION

Not that bad, huh? A 4:3 TV naturally crops the picture. That is how everyone saw the series, on a 4:3 TV. HDTVs don't crop the way 4:3 TVs do, but still, if people didn't mind the way they watched it on a 4:3 TV, it shouldn't be that bad. The "Remastered" doesn't crop from the top and bottom on a 4:3 TV due to the black bars.

Here's another one:

ORIGINAL

"REMASTERED"

4:3 PRESENTATION

Sorry about the quality of the 4:3 images, you know what it's like to take a picture of a TV screen with a camera phone lol Anyway, I'm really on the fence about these "Remastered" releases. I have to admit that the new colors are pretty easy-going on the eyes, but as far as the cropping...I don't know. I could have a whole different opinion tomorrow, but today, I say they don't look bad. I'm still going to collect all of them because I want the "Remastered" and original versions of the show. I mean hey, what did you expect? The future is HDTVs and with the originals, you have 3 choices. Choice number one, you could watch it stretched out which looks really bad (trust me, I know). Choice number two is you can set it to 4:3 and have black bars on the sides (like on a 4:3 when you are watching widescreen and it has bars on the top and bottom). Choice number 3 is you can zoom it in so it would take up the whole picture and not be stretched, but it looks almost identical to the cropping these "Remastered" sets did, except it's even more because there's side image here, whereas in the originals, when you zoom, it'll have to stretch more and cut more from the top and bottom. Just thought I'd share that. Kind of throw a life raft to FUNimation's latest flop

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:03 am

I think when all the season sets are released, Iam just going to put them all in one CD book and put a label on the spine.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:07 am

Eh, I like to keep everything "official". Seriously, I keep every DVD in the box, and they're all in mint condition because I take them out of the box, play them, and put them right back in the box.

Strongbad456 · Post by **Strongbad456** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:38 am

Eh those custom covers are sorta horrible. The orange isn't good at all. They would be better off blue. Right now I'd take Funi's covers over those.

Casual Matt · Post by **Casual Matt** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:09 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:Eh, I like to keep everything "official". Seriously, I keep every DVD in the box, and they're all in mint condition because I take them out of the box, play them, and put them right back in the box.

I'm the exact same way. Though I'd probably be more inclined to custom covers if I had access to a good printer.

Bomber Greek · Post by **Bomber Greek** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:27 pm

I like these covers. But, what do you think the box that would hold alol these cases would look like?

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:10 pm

Umm...the same picture? lol Just be able to fit 6 DVDs. I like it this way. It's nice and cheap. You can have the whole series for much less than if you buy them in singles or box sets...believe me...I know...because I have both versions.