HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON MOVIE POSTER
My Process
My main goal when making my poster was to follow the style of Saul Bass movie posters. I wanted it to look simplistic/minimalistic but still show enough aspects of the movie to catch someone's interest. I created the overall poster in Photoshop but I made all the graphics in Illustrator. Using a photo for a little inspiration, I made the tale and the wings that sit behind the title with the Pen Tool in Illustrator. It didn't take too long and I'm very happy with the outcome. I made the main title by first downloading a font from DaFont.com and then installing it onto the Adobe Suite. I typed my title out, selected it, went to Type>Create Outlines. From then on I used the Direct Select tool to manipulate the original font into something of my own. The original came with few serifs and I added the drippy and sharp like features.
The Final Product
I was pretty iffy about it in the end. I didn't know if I thought it was simple enough or if it was just too boring. After alternating the direction of the poster and testing out different layouts with the wording and graphics, I decided I liked my original idea. I did tweak plenty of things in the end by adding a border, adding a cloud atop the tale, changing the blend mode and opacity of the clouds, and finally adding a satin overlay to the tale in order to make it look more part of the sky and moving. If I was to redo my poster the only thing I would change would be maybe making the title a bigger aspect because I really like the look of it. Projects like these that allow us to be completely and creatively free with our work are my favorite. It gives me the opportunity to create something completely my own and show off my work.
This is an example of a Saul Bass Movie Poster. You can see the simple color scheme, the simple graphics that all pull together to give everyone an idea of the movie it is representing.
