PAR vs. DAR

Here’s a follow up to an older post on aspect ratios. It’s a reader submitted link so thank you to Nederlander for the awesome link:

Design Win

Cover Challenge #2 at Customaniacs

Looks like this challenge will pit MrMiniUK against Evilmonkey. MrMiniUK is the current “Champion” so let’s see if he can retain his title at Customanics. You can vote now for what cover you would like to see them make for the competition. The choices are:

Unleashed
Gross Pointe Blank
Bewitched
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Alien Autopsy

Even More Screencaps!

Here are even more amazing screencap sites discovered by Maladroit! Leave Me The Right is exceptional in that the screencaps are 1600 x 900 and are great quality. Enjoy and feel free to add your favorite:

- Leave Me The White (Great Quality!)
- Screen Musings (Amazing)
- Kiss Cut (Horror/Sci-Fi)
- Daydreaming (Fantastic, tons of caps for each movie all varying in size.)
- Mystic Bliss (5 pages of movies, great caps, they mostly cap movies that star actors they think are hot.)
- Denying Insanity (Small but has some great caps)
- Deep Dark Depp (Awesome caps for Johnny Depp movies.)
- Screencap Heaven (The title’s false advertising.)
- All the White Horses (Good caps, but mostly centered around a certain actor in the movie.)

A Whole Lotta’ Orange…

Ever thought about replacing your A Clockwork Orange cover. but never found a suitable replacement? If you’re looking for an original design then one of these covers might fill your void:

By Maladroit

By euroboy

By Ruso

BY Syxx0rz

By iCoty

Need Screencaps?

Maladroit recently uncovered an awesome site, KissCut.net, that is dedicated to DVD screencaps. Although selection is small, they may have something you are look for! The images have a resolution of 720×576 and typically encompass the entire movie (i.e. A Clockwork Orange has a whopping 3898 screencaps!). Also checkout Mystic Bliss for even more screenshots at higher resolutions!

“Grindhousing” Movies…

Here’s a great post at Something Awful (which I came across originally at Customaniacs) about grindhousing your favorite movie. Basically, the idea is to take a movie and design a poster for it in the style of the flick Grindhouse, or more generally, thse exploitation films of the 70’s. They have a cool old school touch and some are pretty well designed. Here’s are just 3 of the many posted:

EvilMonkeyDSK3 Newest Resident Artist at Customaniacs

Here’s the official word from Customaniacs super moderator, HelloShaun:

“I’ve liked this guys work for a long time so I am really pleased to be able to announce that the latest addition to our excellent group of Resident Cover Artists is EvilMonkeyDSK3.”

Here’s some of his work:

Free Font Resources

http://www.larabiefonts.com/fonts.html

http://www.astigmatic.com/freeware.html

http://simplythebest.net/fonts/

http://www.geocities.com/soho/lofts/6360/home.html

http://www.btgraphix.com/home.asp

http://www.webfontlist.com/

http://www.smackbomb.com/famousfonts/index.html

http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm

http://www.acidfonts.com/

http://www.downloadfreefonts.com/fontfiles/afonts.htm

http://www.1001fonts.com/

http://www.dafont.com/

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

Hirescovers.net Cover Competition Launched!

For the details and rules check out Hirescovers! And don’t forget…there’s a twist involved in this one!

The competition looks heated. Here’s a list of current contestants to the competition and the judges:

Competitors:

b3arstyle
kylumi
wesje
corky
skallywag
golemeye
zantasha
sauron
ubl6612
gutterballs
ace
easylife
digital
nonini
voetzoeker
Arkflip
Ruso gkn

Judges:

cyberclown
irrob
stalker
demonology

Notable Covers of the Week (September 2 – September 8 2007)

War of the Worlds by Ace

Reign Over Me by Zantasha

House by Jaldomar

Ghost Rider by Demonology

Disturbia by B3ARStyLE

Blood & Wine by dweez

Lady in the Water by Voetzoeker

Grindhouse by Aristoles