Club Daze Design Points


Original Sketch for front design - This was drawn free-hand; it initially started out as a doodle, but when I had to fill in the sky for the design, this was handy to put in the sky. 10 different major revision stages were applied after the original sketch was scanned in. The hair is not weird like this sketch in the final version (the final one had a last refinishing before print)

Original source image for back design - This is Noriko Sakai, a famous asian pop star. You may have noticed that she has been severely retouched, [A] to fix various image resolution problems and [B] to make her appear more "Asian" and less of any particular Asian ethnicity. Major modifications include:
  • Removing bangs, changing skin texture.
  • Changing dress to evening / club attire.
  • Reconstruction of neckline and shoulder portions.

Club Daze Lettering - The lettering for this semester's Club Daze was far more complex than any I have ever done before. Over 50 filters were used (as well as manual retouching) during a 2 day period to achieve the final effect shown in the handbill. You can notice the detail on the actual poster if you happen to see it. Major points include:
  • Most glares were created with Lens Flare in Photoshop, first placing the lens flare (with a mask) and then de-saturating / lightening the flare itself. Fuzzed circles were drawn around the flares for a new look.
  • Standard Lighting Effects filters and texture fills were used for a large portion of the edge shading. Gaussian Blur, Find Edges, Glowing Edges, Solarize, Motion Blur at 90 degrees, Auto-levels, Lighting Effects. No KPT was used in this design.
  • Realistic reflections were produced by tilting the background (see the original sketch above), inverting maps / saturation correction, and using distortion edge maps on the sketch to produce a mirror / metalic-like effect.
  • I really wanted to create diffraction effects such as those ILM had in Star Wars Special Edition. What I'm referring to is the colored rainbow ghosts applied to C-3PO's chrome when he was in the desert. I didn't get very close, however.