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Indiana Jones’ Last Crusade Rubbing Poster
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The latest addition to my geeky poster store continues the trend of art seen in films and television. This one is a facsimile of the composite charcoal rubbing created by Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade film (remember when that film capped a trilogy perfectly?).
This one is about 90% accurate. Some characters at the top left needed guesswork. You’ll have to fold it, crumple it up, and add some tears at the edge to make it look completely authentic.
When I illustrated the letters I saw some actual wording used in the film - it’s not just a bunch of random text. References to a crescent moon, life eternal, and Alexandretta all present and accounted for. Several other words could be loosely interpreted as well.
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All Valley Karate Tournament Poster
You can buy a high-res version of this poster here.
I originally illustrated this poster design in summer 2011, but then when back and remade it in January 2012, which is what you see here. It’s a very popular item and I get many compliments about how great it looks.
The basis for this poster is a 3D model of the ring which was shaped to match the perspective of the poster seen in the film. It was textured and lit and rendered. The fighters and All Valley logo were then illustrated in vector. Everything was typed up using four versions of the Futura font. Lastly a lot of digital painting was used to complete the image.
Here is a collage of samples from the poster (actual pixel size):
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Ghostbusters 3 Script Idea
With news that Ghostbusters 3 is in a stand-still, I thought I’d offer up my idea for the plot. Not just the premise, but a start, middle, and ending. It does introduce a new group of Ghostbusters, but I couldn’t assign them names or character traits. This is highly derivative of the first film.
This is just a rough story outline. Not quite a short story, not quite a script outline. It doesn’t dwell on characterization or action sequences for the most part. It is poorly-written and breaks the 4th wall often, but I enjoyed writing it. It’s fun to exercise my creative writing skills once in a while, no matter how horrendous. Here goes (4700 words, fair warning):
Peter Venkman decides he is done being a Ghostbuster, and starts a company called Ghobo Inc., which sells Roomba-like devices (also called Ghobos) that work as both ghost detectors and traps. The device makes Peter rich and the Ghostbusters redundant. So much so they closed down the Firehouse and released all the ghosts they caught, which are quickly scooped up by thousands of Ghobos throughout New York City.
When a Ghobo catches a ghost, it has a removable cartridge which is then be dropped in the mail Netflix-style. It is then sent to a massive containment unit in Japan, where the ghosts’ ecto properties are converted into a clean energy source. Read the rest of this entry
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Good Will Hunting Painting Now Available
I still get e-mails from time to time asking where this can be purchased, so I decided to touch it up and upload it to Imageready, where you can buy it commission-free, at least until Miramax asks me to remove it (in a violent, yet critically-acclaimed fashion). Hit the link or the image to go to the store listing.
Recommend the smaller sizes for this print — 14″ x 11″ is close to the painting’s size from the film. Also because I suck at painting digitally, and a smaller print can hide that. I did my best (I painted the outer 30% all around), but it won’t hold up to close scrutiny. At a glance it bears a passing resemblance to what is seen in the film.
I did e-mail Miramax and alert them this was a popular item (I still get traffic hits daily for this painting, and it’s been up over a year or so), in hopes they could add it to their merchandise line. No response, of course, and that is to be expected. Just saying I tried!
One thing I don’t get, is when Will Hunting is describing this painting, he says “It’s also a Winslow Homer ripoff, except, uh, you got whitey rowin’ the boat there.” But you really cannot determine the race of the boat’s occupant at all, or even the gender. It could easily be Paddington Bear in that boat, navigating a harsh sea of marmalade. Doesn’t that thought just cheer you up??
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Ghostbusters Blu-Ray Case
This was an old design that has been redone (original post deleted) in light of a recent tower case design I made. It’s a basic slip cover, but with a small LED sign on the front. This would look good in any library.
As pointed out in the comments a similar case was issued for The Real Ghostbusters that predated my design.
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Tumbler Batmobile Blueprint
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You can buy a poster of this image here (no commission). Click above for the Wallpaper size.
I did a post last week that featured a few Tumbler Batmobile blueprints. Unfortunately both images were rather low-res, so the largest poster size you could buy was 11″x 14″. I got a few emails asking for a larger size, so I remedied that and made a 300dpi version. I took my time with this one, and it looks great in my opinion. I ordered one personally.
I also incorporated the Wayne Enterprises logo into this poster. And as I often do when there is no decent image available online, I will make it myself and share it with the internet. Behold, the Wayne Enterprises logo from the Nolan films:
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The ‘Wayne’ text is Arial Black (squashed), and the ‘Enterprises’ text is a font called Euro Caps, which you can get here. Euro Caps needs to be stretched, and the word needed a space between each letter.
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Superman Ziploc Bags
Does it need an explanation? I don’t think so. Ask your friendly neighborhood geek if you don’t understand the reference. Or discuss in the comments. Have a great day!
