Calvin Bauer Movie Poster

(Finally able to upload this and away from the brink of potential hard drive disaster.) So I did a poster for David Cronenberg's Videodrome, and wanted to capture the iconic flesh/videotape combination that embodies the general theme and feel of the film, but without directly copying the image from the movie. I mostly used the Blob Brush, for all of the fleshy parts, and the rectangle/circle/pen tool for the videotape itself. The fonts used were Bebas Neue for the main title, downloaded from dafont.com, and See You At the Movies for the slug (also dafont). I ended up using a TV static texture overlay for the main title (from freeimages.com) and a subtle cloth texture on the tape. I wasn't really able to render all the guts-ish parts as well as I'd hoped to, as vectors just end up looking too smooth and don't intigrate very well with one another (but maybe that's just my lack of experience), but I think for the general feel of the piece it turned out ok. I was playing around with the tv texture and tried to make it go across the entire poster, but it ended up muddying it up and flattening it so I ended up keeping it just in the text. I also used Kuler on several occasions in order to find an appropriate color for the main title. I think that's about it! I'm relatively happy with how this came out and I'm thinking about redoing it someday, maybe in photoshop.