Continuing my graphic novel type design from the previous poster, I decided to play a little more with motion in this poster for "2012". Palin, after going all out, has lost the elections. Crazy as she is, her rage is unleased upon the unsuspecting people of the United States (minus Alaska). The poster is actually just a collage of 3 images: one atomic blast, one crater, and one image of a family skipping through a park. It was interesting to me that once their expressions were wiped off their faces, they fit perfectly as a family running for their lives.
The picture itself is really noisy, which I was kinda going for. I like dramatic simplicity better, but the contrast of the foreground and noisy background still appealed to me. I played a lot with outer glows on all of my layers to really make them pop. Especially in the case of the atomic blast, I think the glow really helped my contrast the title from the explosion behind it.
Even if the picture is noisy, the overall composition is so strong that we can perceive a pattern right away.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the glow behind helped with the titling. It also helps create the overall pattern that we see first, before we zoom into consider individual details. In other words, it aids your visual hierarchy.