Fan made Shadows of Lylat DVD cover...

[Seajai]

I am in Game design right now and I am learning some photoshop goodness. Our project today was to make a DVD cover for a game that interested us...so this was the result!

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j57/ZeldafreakNEO/StarfoxDVDBeta.jpg

Its not done yet, and truth be told this IS my first REAL photoshop...


what do you guys think?

[MDarkbladeM]

The Shadows of Lylat font and glow gives it quite an amateurish look. Also there should be some note about StarFox being a Nintendos' trademark.

[Seajai]

of corse its amature looking! Heh...today was the first time I opend Photoshop!

[Taristin]

Nice lack of stars behind the lettering...

[strike911]

where did you get the original images from? I've been looking for those for quite some time.

If you like using white glows I suggest at least using black lettering for your words. Oh and different is mispelled on the back portion.


It's a good start for your first try at Photoshop!

[Seajai]

Arwinglanding.tk


Its the best place to find anything related to starfox!

(Where I found out bout this mod!)

[DZComposer]

It's been arwinglanding.net for like 2 years now. :rolleyes:

[Seajai]

.....Has it now?

[Seajai]

Ok here is the Final I submitted. I hope for a good grade soon!

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j57/ZeldafreakNEO/StarfoxDVDBeta-1.jpg

[Brockenstein]

I am sure you will get a good grade doesn't look that bad.

[DaBrain]

Hehe, nice to see somebody work on fan content for us. :)
Anway, we won't use any pictures from Nintendo in the game


Using a screenshots or a render from SoL as basis would give the whole thing a more unique look. It's also a harder task. (A challange?) ;)


A few suggestions:
I know you you've just started, but there are a few things that can make it better without much work.

The font... It's not too bad, but can proabably find something better.
When you work with PS, you'll need a LOT of fonts. So start looking for them. ;)
The glow it also a bit too strong. Looks more like fog.

The scenes. It's one really old shot and a loacding screen.
Dunno, the loading screen would be better for the DVD cover than a preview picture.
The placement could also be better. The picure on Fox' head irritates me for some reason.


So... keep it up.

[AqueousShadow]

www.dafont.com is a great place for fonts, but as it might be slow at times. right now it even seems down.

great work though, as it is your first try, EVER. :yes:

[Brockenstein]

Seems up to me!

Intresting site~

[sheep]

Now sir, that is a bloody good find.
Got whole new wealth of fonts to add to the collection.

Thank-in-u muchly.

[strike911]

Are these fonts roylaty free? A good find indeed sir.

[sheep]

Im assuming the ones that say free are free and the demos are not ...

[AqueousShadow]

The FAQ reads that the authors will say whether it's freeware or shareware or whatever.

[strike911]

so sweet. this site is so damn awesome!! ^_^_^_^_^_^ I needed some new fonts. :)

[Maverick]

Looks nice m8, try lowering the opacity of the white glow a little.. and a tip for that sort of effect... drop the stroke round it and set the main fill to 0% that way you will see through it... but you will still have the glow around it...

If you need any photoshop tips gimme a shout and i will see what i can do to help.

I dont post a lot here... i beilieve my last post was asking for models a LONG time ago (which they were nice enough to give me... older versions of them though :D)

[takashi]

T rated? i dont remember fox having an evil mouth D:

[Atalhlla]

Only because he got fed up with the barrel rolls...

[takashi]

sigged'

[reecord2]

My only suggestion would be, on the back cover, to move those little preview pictures into a straight row at the very bottom. You could have 3 or 4 of them, and they wouldn't be covering any of the Fox team's faces. You might have to make them a little smaller though. But yeah, I looooove your choice of using the SNES versions of the fox team. Really good work.

[takashi]

even though fox's appearence is invalid ever since they were officialy changed to anime-style characters? sooon....the fan made title screen will surface...and fan submitted music...


HAHAHAHAHAHA!

(ah dang....my "personality" was off in that post...)