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by eledoremassis02 » Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:58 pm
Reading the Blu ray topic and saw how some didnt like the covers I though I'd try a custom one
Something to do lol..
All the covers I make will be added here:
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by MCDaveG » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:11 am
Good work for a non-proffesional. If I can suggest, you can polish the line from the folding in photoshop a little, it's not that hard. You can simply do it by clone stamp tool and the typo takes a little clash with the art. Mostly on the edges of the spine. The Dragon Ball Z logo should be more to the left from the spine and the blu-ray logo smaller and to the right, to be in the middle between the spine and the DBZ logo on the front. Also on the spine, there are the Japanese characters clashing with the ''Level 1.1'' as it is almost unreadable, if I can suggest have the opacity set on more %. Try 75-80%.
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by sangofe » Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:51 am
It's a nice cover although it looks identical to one of the Japanese DBZ Dragonbox singles

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by eledoremassis02 » Sun Jan 08, 2012 12:17 pm
Thanks for the advice!
Yea, I liked those covers and don't have any of the dragon boxes

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by MCDaveG » Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:06 pm
eledoremassis02 wrote:Thanks for the advice!
Yea, I liked those covers and don't have any of the dragon boxes

You're welcome, I will gladly help. I love the Dragon Box art

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by eledoremassis02 » Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:26 pm
MCDaveG wrote:eledoremassis02 wrote:Thanks for the advice!
Yea, I liked those covers and don't have any of the dragon boxes

You're welcome, I will gladly help. I love the Dragon Box art

That would be great! thanks!
Think I'm done with the first cover (though Goku could still use some touch up)
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by sumpter360 » Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:56 pm
eledoremassis02 wrote:MCDaveG wrote:eledoremassis02 wrote:Thanks for the advice!
Yea, I liked those covers and don't have any of the dragon boxes

You're welcome, I will gladly help. I love the Dragon Box art

That would be great! thanks!
Think I'm done with the first cover (though Goku could still use some touch up)
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This is fantastic! Really nice job

The only thing I don't love about it would have to be the Kai-esque artwork above the synopsis. Aside from that, I hope you keep doing these, because I may use them!

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by samuraix123 » Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:34 am
Agreed! I would love to use these

Are these also the right size for a Blu-Ray cover? just print it out and you're good to go just slip it in?
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by Kendamu » Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:39 am
Now that's freakin' neat! If I get into the Blu-Rays, I'd totally want to do this.
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by eledoremassis02 » Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:23 am
samuraix123 wrote:Agreed! I would love to use these

Are these also the right size for a Blu-Ray cover? just print it out and you're good to go just slip it in?
There's a free program that scales them to fit Blu ray covers. But they are proportioned for Blu ray cases. I used the program UnderCoverXP to print them out.
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by NitroEX » Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:33 am
I think it's a good cover but I've never personally been a fan of the bright yellow colour scheme for Dragonball Z. Same thing goes for orange too.
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by Perfect » Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:37 am
Wouldn't this go better in the Fan-Created Works board?
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by Pokewhiz7 » Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:50 pm
It's good, but I think I like the official cover better.
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by BluezaBladeNZ » Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:32 pm
That's cool. I might consider doing that myself when I start doing custom Blu-ray discs for the Dragon Box episodes.
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by MCDaveG » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:32 am
The last thing look a way better, but I have some typographic thing on it again and I don't want to torment you as you already printed it.
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by dbboxkaifan » Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:14 am
That looks pretty good much better than the original but if I had these Blu-rays I'd just keep the original cover instead, I'm not one to replace the official cover for a fan-made.
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by kei17 » Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:07 am
It's nice, yet it would've been better if the artwork had not been vertically squashed I guess.
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by Raykugen » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:08 am
The quality of some stuff it's awful. But the idea it's good. The screenshots are scans, it looks horrible, you should use screenshots from the internet or done by yourself easily and put them on the cover. The background of the back of Vegeta, Raditz and Nappa don't fit with the cover, these are old illustrations and all the others are new images.
Here you can found renders of the characters in HQ:
http://tekilazo.deviantart.com/
The logo would be better. Here you can found HQ images of the logos along the series:
http://camarinox.deviantart.com/gallery ... 8#/d34vuw7
http://vicdbz.deviantart.com/gallery/25514160
Also, some texts from the back are from a scan. You should write them with whatever program do you use. The texts will look A LOT better than the scan's texts.
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by sangofe » Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:50 am
Raykugen wrote:The quality of some stuff it's awful. But the idea it's good. The screenshots are scans, it looks horrible, you should use screenshots from the internet or done by yourself easily and put them on the cover. The background of the back of Vegeta, Raditz and Nappa don't fit with the cover, these are old illustrations and all the others are new images.
Here you can found renders of the characters in HQ:
http://tekilazo.deviantart.com/
The logo would be better. Here you can found HQ images of the logos along the series:
http://camarinox.deviantart.com/gallery ... 8#/d34vuw7
http://vicdbz.deviantart.com/gallery/25514160
Also, some texts from the back are from a scan. You should write them with whatever program do you use. The texts will look A LOT better than the scan's texts.
Maybe you can make some covers?
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by dbboxkaifan » Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:08 am
I found this awkward:
Not only it's not true but misleading too, some people may think FUNimation has re-dubbed Z the same way they did with Kai, wish they'd have.
The screenshots on the cover look like they're from a low quality source.
Still, it's a great cover better than the original.
Anywho, since the Dragon Boxes are OoP so FUNi could make a DVD release of the DBZ Level sets, there's the orange bricks but they've got horrible quality.
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