Animé Custom Cover project?

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DarrienEmerald:
Okay, third version now, but I'm actually pretty happy with this one...

Just the back, as there have been no changes to the front or spine. I'm thinking against age ratings now, even though I brought it up, because they have always seemed a little silly to me. Comparing to the ESRB again, what's so bad about Final Fantasy XIII that I shouldn't play it when I'm twelve and have to wait an additional year? Have they seen what is on TV, readily available right now? So, for now at least, I'm not liking it... though, if wanted, I can still throw it in the template, I just won't be making any personal use of it. Was thinking, perhaps using modified versions of the PEGI ratings, since they are number based already, and making the background just a solid color...

Anyways, the back. The previous one was just so... minimalistic, that it annoyed me more and more each time I looked at it. So, thanks to amarthar, I found a nice vectored image of Lacus and restored her to the background. Reformatted the text to allow you to actually see her (otherwise, it'd have no point of having on there in the first place, the major issue with template 1), which also required adjusting the images and "properties" box. Slid the images all the way to the bottom, just a tiny bit above the broadcast/release bar, and then rotated the "properties" to the top left corner. A little unorthodox, perhaps, but I liked the way it came out.

I added the Genre tag to the "properties" box, with relative room for three genres per show, which I figured would be more than enough. The first attempt was too long, and overlapped the left screen capture, so I had to go back and shrink it down some. Now, if you have versions of a show from a remastered release, there used to be room to put it in the "Source" box (i.e., R1 remastered DVD). However, it made the box really large if you did not (i.e., R1 DVD), so that was the one that shrunk down for the genre box to fit. There isn't any room left to specifically mark a source as a remastered set now, at least fully (currently, it lists R2 r DVD for the image, to somewhat signify the remastering). It did also cut down on the space for subtitle tracks... but I don't really know too many releases that have more than one language subtitled anyways.

Also, I should note that Imandix shows a little bit of overlap, as in the spine running over to the back or the front running into the spine. I'm not quite sure why. I've printed out several as a test (back when the template was mainly black... my poor, poor ink cartridges...), and had no issue with any overlap.

At this point, other than adding the age stuff to the side, if wanted, I think it's pretty much ready. Somewhat both looking forward and not looking forward to adjusting my covers to it, but it'll be an adventure, at least. Let me know, good? Bad?

scarmullet:
Looking good, will a Blu-ray variant be comming?

zakurowrath:
Looks very interesting, I actually had to create a cover for my fansubbed Tokyo Mew Mew collection myself, keep up the great work. :D

DarrienEmerald:
Okay, last major update before the weekend. This is debuting the "finished" template, as well as the new "Tokusatsu Series" coloring:

Now, each color type (TV, OVA, Movie, TV Special, H-OVA, and Tokusatsu) have been converted to the new style, and the nice pretty background image will change colors to match the overall color of the type (admittedly, Movie's background is a little more Orange than Brown, but I blame that on Photoshop's Hue control...). I've uploaded the new template to my box, in a .rar file that explains how to create the screenshots in Photoshop CS5... I'm not sure how to do so on other programs, mainly because I've never had a reason to use them, but if you do, let me know and I'll add it into the Instructions file. So far, I've updated two covers to this format, the previewed Kamen Rider Decade, and Gundam SEED, both of which are also up on my Box. Going to work on more updates over the weekend, but I'll probably be away from the 'net for a little bit, unless my parent's have gotten the internet running at the beach house.

As far as a Blu-ray version... I'll look over it, see what I can do about it. Real estate becomes a major problem sometimes, something I learned real fast when trying to make a Final Fantasy XIII 20th Anniversary cover to match shenske's PS1/2 collection. Also... I just realized as I was typing this out that I don't have a color type for Web series... so I'll probably figure something out for that over the weekend too.

So, yeah, tl;dr, new template is out, a minor update is still left for it (adding Web Series as an option), and I'll be working on covers all weekend maybe without internet.

scarmullet:
Here is Azumanga Daioh

https://www.box.com/s/dd8812f495c6677a731a

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