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Originally Posted by stunner  Bay of Blood! Boy, did I ever get my nuts roasted over that one! The trouble there was, everything that could be done had been done. I checked out all the posters and the most popular one featured a disembodied hand hacking some girl in a red jello bathing suit! Obviously the art director figured that didn't cut it so he scanned a big lump of a Frank Frazetta painting and pasted that onto it. I thought it looked garbage but I also knew it was held in high esteem so I knew I was on a hiding to nothing replicating it.
I went through the DVD and there was plenty of scenes I could freeze and copy but all my digital peers can do that better than me so I just went and made something up. I thought it was 'iconic', everybody else thought it was crap!
I must admit that when I revisited the canvas the next day I thought "XXXX, that squid looks big!" but this is oils, I can't just hit the 'redo' button so I let it slide. That frikken' squid's been biting me in the arse ever since! |
Don't kick youself too much Rick, there was a giant squid/octopus (can't remember which) in the film and there is also older artwork including the squid/octopus so it wasn't a wrong way to go with it.