I haven’t seen this movie yet, but I’ve been meaning to get together with a few friends and watch it.  I was also nervous about doing this particular assignment because I’m not really a minimalist, I just try to be one.  I tried to mimic the color of the sky in the jpeg I found on wikipedia here in the background, while creating the illusion of a person falling with body position and simple vertical lines.  I eagerly await comments

For my design assignment I decided to do the minimalist movie travel poster. My first choice was to do Shawshank Prison from the Shawshank Redemption, but I couldn’t find a very good picture of the prison to try and edit. So instead I decided to do limbo from inception. I found a picture of a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio and his wife in the movie were walking through limbo. Then I took the main colors that were used in the photo and made those the most dominant colors used in this minimalist recreation. Hope you guys like it!

You all probably think I’m obsessed with this movie now, haha.
But it’s giving me lots of inspiration!

Here’s my travel poster from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Let’s see.. well, the line on the poster is from the movie itself. They first meet in Montauk, and then decide to find each other there later after erasing their memories.

I made this poster all myself, using no outside brushes or sources, just the tools in gimp. It was a challenge, that’s for sure, but it was very “back to basics” which I really enjoyed.
I used the font Cooper STD Heavy. Clementine and Joel are made by painstakingly making shapes and rotating and coloring them in.

All in all, I’m very happy with how this poster turned out. :3

This is a design assignment I chose for my Digital Storytelling class.  My favorite movie of all time by far.

The HAL-9000's iconic camera eye

Considered to be one of the greatest movie villains of all time, the HAL-9000′s camera eye is very iconic within the film (yes, I know, Wikipedia describes it as such as well–I’m not plagiarizing their description, I’m agreeing with it).  It was always the one image I remembered the most from the film, along with the monolith, and that trippy “Beyond the Infinite” sequence.

I decided to do another design assignment since the last one was such a success!

This time I picked the movie location poster one, but I decided to animate it.

The movie: The Princess Bride.

The location:

It is all grey-scale, and on the very darkest end of the scale. The idea was to preserve the gloomy, oppressive nature of the torture chamber, and I think it worked pretty well. I made the cogs radially symmetric around each cog, so that I only had to animate the rotation of the distance of one spoke.

The entire animation is only five frames, but it loops seamlessly. The whole picture is limited to 8 colors, and I used a patterned dither rather than a gradient-based one so that it looks more artistic and abstract, rather than literal.

The low number of colors and frames make for a fairly quick, smooth animation, especially considering its size. I’ll be curious to see how it does on other computers, and especially with less solid internet connections. My guess is that it’ll be a little slow to download, and once it’s cached it’ll run fine pretty much anywhere.

Despite the simplicity of the design, the final Photoshop document is 14 layers deep. Most of them are repeat layers for the animation (I copied a layer for each cog, for each frame of the animation. There might be a better way to do it, but this wasn’t too bad). I don’t do this kind of stuff very often, so it took me a bit longer than I’d anticipated, but I think the result is pretty cool.

I thought about making a poster for the Cliffs of Insanity or the Thieves’ Forest instead, but when I came up with the animation idea I decided that this one was definitely the coolest to animate.

What do you guys think?

Inspired by Colin’s Mount Doom poster, I chose another Lord of the Rings location.  I’m now doing extra work , just to show how addictive ds106 is.  Since nobody had trouble with my four icon challenge, I’ll give no further clues and let you guess the location.

Jim Groom’s assignment to create a minimalistic travel poster for a location in a film, TV series, etc. Inspired by the Star Wars travel poster designs at the Screen Rant website.

Mount Doom from Lord of the Rings