So I previously posted my progress on my fake DBZ Kai DVD covers for my recordings of the TV edited broadcast.
Innagadadavida wrote:So, desperate for an edited release of Dragon Ball Z Kai to share with my young siblings (and knowing I'll never get that), I decided to take matters into my own hands. I've been DVRing episodes of Dragon Ball Z Kai at my mom's house, and using my DVD Recorder to get the video on DVD. The quality isn't great, but hey, it's for my little brothers, they're not going to notice. And before I get ostracized for creating a bootleg for personal use, I have already supported the official release of DBZ Kai. I'm no freeloader.
Anyway, I could just hand them some DVDs with the episode numbers written in sharpie, but I'm a little more eccentric than that. And personally, part of what I love about owning a TV show is the box art and packaging. I want this show to mean something to them, like it does to me. So what I've gone ahead and done was create some custom DVD covers for my little project. Like I said, I want this little project to have value to them, but I also really enjoy the art of design. I'm not very good at it, but like Goku says, with enough training even the little guys can be great. These are the reasons I have taken the time to do this.
I only have three done so far, but I'm planning on going as long as Kai does. The clip art for the first two are almost all Burst Limit artwork. But I went into Tenkaichi 3, Raging Blast, and Custom artwork for the third set. Really, all I have done is taken clip art and arranged them on the cover. It wasn't incredibly hard, but it was the design that I'm proud of. I also intentionally left the background white to save on ink costs. The episode screencaps are downloaded from Kanzentai, and most the descriptions are either from Kanzentai or Wikipedia (with alterations to attack, character, and location names to remain consistent with the broadcast dub). Although I did write a few of my own.
Well, I have an update. I started over on the project nearly from scratch. This time, instead of using video game clip art, I used high resolution artwork from the Dragon Box singles in Japan. I bought some high-quality paper with the correct proportions, a DVD Labeling kit, and brand new blank DVD cases. I have officially spent way more money than I intended to. But I couldn't help myself. I was having fun making these and I wanted to get the best quality finished product as possible. And I succeeded. The art is fantastic, and was really easy to work with. Here's a picture of the first six volumes. I have all six printed off and in the case, and it looks great. Unfortunately I don't have a camera right now to take a picture, but you can use your imagination.
I also took a que from FUNimation's playbook and decided to do a little spine artwork. Here's what it will look like through volume 13.
I also have labels for the actual discs too. They are of the same character on the respective spine, with the dragon in the BG and the logo on the foreground.
That labeling kit prints off each cover with the right proportions, so there's no guesswork this time. I'll take a picture and edit them into this post later, but it all really works. I can't wait to give this to the little guys. They were really impressed by the simple video game clip art versions the first time.