The Walking Read

Version One:

I found it hard to make a movie poster for my character at first because he was made in an environment already. I thought for a while about putting him in a library since the zombie is popping out of a book and coming to life. The more I planned it out, I realized that wouldn't have the movie effect that I was going for and decided to stick with the theme already made- a graveyard. I began by placing a photo of my paper craft in Photoshop and cutting it out using the pen tool. Once he was cut out, I used the paint bucket to make a black background. I then used the paintbrush tool combined with lowered opacity to blend the table the book was sitting on into the background. Once I had finished, I had cut out a photo of the moon and put it in the background. I then hopped onto Illustrator and made the lettering "The Walking Read" to play with the book idea.

Version Two:

I completely started over for version two. I decided to use a different photo of my paper craft project because this way, it would be easier to include a background and foreground. One again, I began by cutting the character out of the photo (from table up) by using the pen tool. I then made the background black with the paint bucket tool. I had played around with other shades of grey but they weren't as effective as the black had been. I then used the color replacement tool on everything but the red parts of my paper craft person to make it stand out and limit my color choice more. I wanted the lettering and the guts to stand out the most. Next I made extra tomb stones for the background using the pen tool with two different shades of grey to add depth. I then used the paint brush (set using the grass pattern) on the background along the tomb stones. It was then that I decided to bring grass in the foreground and make a path so that the eye could travel nicely throughout the piece. I then used the paint brush tool and played with the opacity to make a white fog. I added lettering courtesy of Adobe Illustrator that I thought looked similar to the original Night of the Living Dead poster and named mine Night of the Living Read. I used a red color to tie into the image in the middle and to make it pop. I added the names at the bottom, once again mimicking the style of the famous movie above. I chose white because I didn't want to distract from everything else going on. Also, most movie posters have names small and almost insignificant on posters. As a last minute thought, I added the moon and fog to help balance the space.  I'm really happy with my finished version and honestly wouldn't change anything. I had a good time working with this project and it turned out better than I thought it would.