VERY rough Starcrossed Cover

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-11-05 09:16am

Ooh, it begins. I shall have to work on it later.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-11-05 11:48am

VERY beautiful, one nitpick, that looks like Captain Pike where I think Gary Mitchell should be, but otherwise, BEAUTIFUL.

Phil Skayhan · Post by **Phil Skayhan** » 2003-11-05 12:03pm

Stravo wrote:VERY beautiful, one nitpick, that looks like Captain Pike where I think Gary Mitchell should be, but otherwise, BEAUTIFUL.

I always get those two mixed up!

Crown: Agree

Bolte:

But you're right anyway.

I'll work on the compostion later on.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-11-05 12:47pm

Hmmm.. suggestion. Bring Q and Mitchell down and put Palpatine all the way down at the lower corner all three in the background. Make the backdrop of course black with stars. And the very top could be the under bellies of approaching star destroyers?

Very nice though, now get a pencil and start drawing the thing out you!

And write more chapters!

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-11-05 01:19pm

I noticed that people seem to be stuck using a crappy low-res picture of Gary Mitchell. This is unfortunate; if anyone wants a much better-quality Gary Mitchell picture to work with, here ya go:

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-11-05 01:47pm

Once again Mike shows why he is the man.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-11-05 05:27pm

Here's my attempt:
*old version removed*

This is not finished, as you can see it lacks the TOS team, and the SW picture wasn't the best either...

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2003-11-05 05:52pm

Damn, I have to try making something for this "competition" after I'm finished with my exam on Saturday.

Heh, I haven't even read Star Crossed (yet), but it's something that has to be changed in the near future.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-11-05 06:03pm

Oberleutnant wrote:Damn, I have to try making something for this "competition" after I'm finished with my exam on Saturday.

Heh, I haven't even read Star Crossed (yet), but it's something that has to be changed in the near future.

The best part about this is you don;t even have to read the story. The main elements are:

The villains: Gary Mitchell, The Emperor and Lord Darth Nemesis

The Heroes: TOS Trel folks, especially Kirk, Leia and Q.

And it helps to show stardestroyers and starships in the background.

Some suggestions for future possible cover elements:

Thrawn, a chessboard, Vader, A borg cube, Defiant

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2003-11-05 06:17pm

Hey, thanks for the help!

Mebbe I should finally find out why everyone is so excited about it.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-11-05 06:53pm

Here's the second revision:

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-11-05 06:56pm

HDS, that second verison is GREAT. I like the division of characters on that screen, very well done. We have some truly creative folks on this board.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-11-05 07:10pm

Stravo wrote:HDS, that second verison is GREAT. I like the division of characters on that screen, very well done. We have some truly creative folks on this board.

Yeah, that definately looks kick ass.

Phil Skayhan · Post by **Phil Skayhan** » 2003-11-05 07:28pm

Version 2.0

click for larger image
...and

Damn you HDS!!!

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-11-05 09:19pm

Karrde, did you get those ISDs from the game Rebellion? They look like screenshots...

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-11-05 10:25pm

In case someone wants a red lightsabre blade (Nemesis, Vader) here is one I whipped up in PS7: http://yt300000.250free.com/sabre.jpg

Yes, I know the tip is fucked up. But when you shrink it, no one will notice.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-11-05 10:53pm

heres my rough, not as cohesive as id like it to be at this point and I think I need to change it up a bit.

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2003-11-06 12:43am

Exonerate wrote:Karrde, did you get those ISDs from the game Rebellion? They look like screenshots...

Actually they're from this pic. The one right next to the Eclispe, just simple copy and paste.

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2003-11-06 12:56am

Round 2!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-11-07 02:50am

Since everybody else seems to be trying to incorporate as many elements as they can, I decided to put together something much simpler:

Also, I tried to make the image look like a book cover.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-11-07 02:54am

I like it. That one's the best.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-11-07 02:56am

Well, here's my rough and ready version, I might add more to it later. It's bloody big, even the small png is 100kb, so I'll be posting the small one here, and linking to the big one...

http://mooserebellion.tgu.org.uk/starcrossedcover.png

I wanted to add more of a battle, but it's a bitch finding decent fleet shots of either side. And it was starting to get complicated.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-11-07 11:16am

I really like the simplicity of Red Imperator's design, something very attractive about it.

Lumberjacks' looks very close to the cover I can see in my head, particularly the way it resembles some of the older Trek novel covers and includes many of the elements I like, particualrly Q's look. I always imagined the cover to sort of have Q and Gary as larger than life figures dominating the cover but faded and in the shadows much like the story, they ARE the background if you gte my drift.

I'm having alot of fun seeing this stuff coming together like this.

I'm also interested in seeing people's different takes on the story reflected on their covers.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-07 11:46am

Kirk with a lightsaber, PRICELESS!!!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-11-07 01:21pm

So when does the contest start, anyway?