Chromatomic's radioactive dumping

Chromatomic

My last thread was nearly a year ago and kinda faltered a bit in that I only had a couple posts in it

So I figured I should start posting some of my work for a change and try to keep it updated longer as well.

Also I'm trying to bring my portfolio up to date since I have a lot of older work in it still.

Some work I've done in the last few weeks:



(images don't link to anything but they're in my da or portfolio)

Some Work in Progress:

Chromatomic

Mustang

HA! Nice one Veritachromaticatron.
The SA World Cup will be forever remembered as "the World Cup that had those fucking horns."

EDIT: The texture is a little strong though, maybe bump down the layer opacity 20-30%

Chromatomic

Yeah I see what you mean, I think I sharpened it a little too much as well.

So I dropped both of those down a bit.

m3nace

bzzzzzzzzzz

Chromatomic

update on the previous one. Altered the color some and increased the size of the vuvuzela's



back to working on the skull.

Paradise

That's a big improvement on the vuvuzela piece. Good job.

Chromatomic

Thanks paradise.

Update on the skull WIP I need some fresh eyes on it.




edit: already I'm not digging the halftone or the background star burst.

edit: Is the hatching on the skull doing anything good or should I return to something more like the first one?

edit: without the halftone or starbursts

Chromatomic

Final-ish update. Doing some new text but I'm essentially done with everything else barring changes from feedback.

Kochikens

Have the teeth overlap the flowers, the flower overlapping the teeth looks really strange. Looks damn fabulous though.

Chromatomic

Thanks Kochi

I might revisit the teeth area. I tried the teeth in front but I couldn't really get it looking right. If I keep the flowers in front I might need to add more overlapping the skull where the jaw should be a bit further back.

edit:

done with this. I'm sure I could have done more but I'm reasonably happy with it. Ended up pulling more of the flowers forward so I hope that fixed some of the oddness without moving the flowers behind the jaw.

Chromatomic

Just a quick doodle design thing

Grenn

Love the oily texture applied to the spill, and the ripple effect of the waves.

I'd be tempted to bring the waterline down a lot more, even if it's only to balance composition by matching the distance between the text and bottom. Perhaps get the clounds and sun in there with unhappy smiley faces to reinforce the dead faces of the fish? (which could be made a touch clearer for the small guys, I think).

I'd also move the fish school from behind the "Visit..." text, just to make that a touch punchier, and do a horizontal flip on some of the seaweed strands, so they don't look so uniform.

A nice piece though. I am a sucker for textures.:^:

Chromatomic

Cool Thanks Grenn!

The small fish don't actually have dead faces (just regular dots for eyes) I just placed them in upside down and brown, but maybe I'll add some details to the slightly larger small ones.

Also, textures, totally my weakness. I have to consciously restrain myself from them sometimes.

Chromatomic

updated the oil spill one and also made a logo sheet sort of thing



The one I intend to use is the bottom left, but I made more just to see what else I could come up with.

Chromatomic

Mustang

Pretty fucking cool Chrom.

My only crit is that the main texture feels a little dense. I wouldn't mind seeing that layer upscaled a bit.
Love the shit of the concept though, wish I had thought of it.

Chromatomic

Um... which one is the main texture you refer to?

Mustang

Dammit, I knew you were going to ask me that.

*background sounds of tools banging and things being dropped*

This one.



EDIT: you might need to squint.

Chromatomic

Haha too many textures. Thanks.

Chromatomic

Felt like making one those minimalist movie posters.



I also did ones for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Prestige in the same format, but this is my favorite one.

lyrium

I like that a lot, but I wonder how it would look with the text lines pulled away from the edges just a tiny little bit. Right now, just at a glance I get the impression that they are actually touching the border (even though they aren't). Are you going to post the other ones?

Chromatomic

oh yeah I see what you mean, at the larger sizes I was working on they seemed alright but when I resized them it starts getting to look really close.

I don't have any changes made to this one, but here all the 4 of them together.

Mangoes

I just watched The Prestige for the first time a few days ago (in anticipation for Inception); and that is the perfect imagery to represent it. Nice job!

Chromatomic

CapnMango wrote: »

I just watched The Prestige for the first time a few days ago (in anticipation for Inception); and that is the perfect imagery to represent it. Nice job!

Oh yes!

I'm glad you said that. It was the only one I didn't know exactly what I was going to do until I did it. I haven't watched it in long time so I was really hoping it made the right connection. The prestige has so many ways to represent it though, it has themes up the wazzoo.

lyrium

I really like all four of them. I think that maybe taking the metallic sheen off of the birdcage would make it all a little more consistent.
Now, I haven't seen Inception, so not knowing the significance of the top I'll have to say this is just for the other three. It sort of looks like you may have just gone with your first idea, because they're all kind of obvious images. In the future it might be good for you to play around, try to generate as many ideas as you can so that there's a little something more interesting about the image you end up with. You kind of do this in the Dark Knight one, with the mouth paint being shaped like a bat.
I think this came to mind because Moss also did some simple movie poster designs a while ago http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/14/cool-stuff-olly-mosss-poster-remakes/

Chromatomic

Yeah I can see that. I actually started the Batman/Dark Knight pictures from a poster a did a year and half ago when my school was showing the Dark Knight. So it wasn't exactly new imagery. At the same time I was trying to distill it down to a simple iconic image but I do agree they seem kind of handed out in a way.

Part of it is perhaps also because of Nolan's film style, he readily provides iconic symbols and themes in most of his movies. I wasn't sure whether to take them further or even how to take them further without obscuring the intention of the posters in the first place.

For the prestige. Since that was the one I actually hadn't decided what to create before beginning I had quite a few more ideas.

In addition to the caged bird, using the rubber ball, or a man entering/exiting the "transported man" doors, Tesla's field of lightbulbs, 3 incomplete faces of fallon borden and angier showing just their facial hair, doing the bird cage, except with 2 additional, empty cages, But they all seemed to get further away from the style I set for inception and the other 2 with the single icon.

I'll have to try my hand at some additional movie posters, perhaps something without so many readily given symbols to create.

lyrium

Yeah, that's a good point. Some of those other ideas for Prestige sound really cool, but when working with a set you want to keep the same effect throughout. It was just a thought for a way to push working with symbols. Good work overall!

Also I didn't mean to botp them.

Chromatomic wrote: »

oh yeah I see what you mean, at the larger sizes I was working on they seemed alright but when I resized them it starts getting to look really close.

I don't have any changes made to this one, but here all the 4 of them together.

NibCrom

These are nice. I like the simplicity of them.

I'm really not digging your signature on these things though. I guess if you feel like you need to protect your work on the Web, that's okay. Maybe you meant it to be sort of a movie logo, like Warner Bros. or something. But I think it hurts the impact of the poster. The logo is nicely balanced with the other elements, but movie posters and book covers don't have the name of the artist on them. Now of course, if you got rid of the logo, it would be unbalanced. I would consider putting "A film by Christopher Nolan" in the upper left and the title in the bottom right. Or maybe the tagline up top centered, with the title on the bottom, centered.

Chromatomic

Oh I wasn't even thinking about it in terms of protecting my design or anything, I was including it as a part of the design really more of a self promotion than anything. I was thinking of them more in terms of a personal print poster, but I can see it as possibly being unnecessary. As for a centered title and tagline I don't think that would work given the centered artwork.

NibCrom

Yeah, I still think they work. It is your art after all.

Automatic Jack

These are glorious. Reminds me a lot of these book cover redesigns. Do you do this for a living?

The way my eye has to jump all the way from the title down past all that negative space to the tiny Nolan text gives these a somewhat cold, alienating feel. Nolan is a very technical rather than emotional director, so I think these work really well in that regard.

Chromatomic

Automatic Jack wrote: »

Do you do this for a living?

Well, I'm trying to

I have an interview this Tuesday for a design position though.

Up to now I've just done internships, school, and freelance work.

Grenn

Good work, I like these as a set a lot.

And good luck with the interview!

Chromatomic

Thanks!

Chromatomic

Not really a thing, just being bored and anxious.

Chromatomic

More fun with redesigns

Chromatomic

Does that look like Coral to other people? My friend said "I thought it was a spaceship made out of raw pork," I would like this to not be the consensus.

Iruka

I think it could be more obvious maybe, it looks kinda meaty/artery like.

Tam

looks like coral to me

edit: though now that Iruka mentions it, it does look like it could easily be mistaken for some kind of meat.

also, I'm not getting the metaphor
I have to go to a thing right now, so I will think about a piece of coral in a glass dome/bubble during the thing

Chromatomic

Hmm. Crap.

edit: oh yeah!

Well So I have 2 Pork, 1 Coral.

I might leave it the same if I can't get it to look better but maybe I can make a slightly stronger coral looking texture going on.