Poster for C+C

[nads]

Hey guys,

Another item for C+C - Love to hear your thoughts, from anything to the layout to the *cough* lame *cough* taglines.

EDIT: Added another one with some bloody splatter over the top
EDIT EDIT: Ok added another one with no lines on the top 3/4 - plus added face as well as the IBM "sticker" on the side

         

[selmiak]

looking interesting, but his face is strange. Make it more visible or somehow interesting in another way. And maybe add some more subtle texture to the background as it looks empty.

edit: now I see the second image too. I like the darker version more. So another idea, use a different texture for the background of the top 3/4 and put it behind the priest. The paper texture makes sense on top of the character but the lines rather not.

[nads]

updated again

[Eric]

If you're planning on going commercial, you might want to adjust the face so it's a little less Bronson, lest you be beset by litigious descendants. I might make that cross white like the collar, and maybe the reflections on the gun barrel too, to make them pop from behind the blood.

While you're going full-kitsch, have you considered playing off of the cross image with either of the capital T's found in "THE PRIEST"?

[Ali]

I think people don't "fuck with priests" in general (although the reverse is not always true).

I would go for something like: "He may be celibate, but he can still fuck you up."

[nads]

Hahaha, well it's pretty much at a draft stage. I'd been working on it since 3am in the morning, lol. The final game it's not really going to look like Bronson, if it ever gets to that stage. I actually forgot about changing the T's to crosses, thanks for the reminder Eric. Working on a small update now.

[Anian]

Is this going to be a poster? Maybe the crumbled paper texture is not the best solution then, looks slightly weird.

Also the whole thing looks very very washed out, like there's a white layer over the whole  picture. And as somebody suggested, put some other textures behind the character (like faces of other people from the movie. Maybe something in his other hand as well - rosemary, Bible, big handheld cross etc.

[WHAM]

My 2 cents: The jacket looks odd. The white collar appears to have been tagged on and the jacket below doesn't look (to me) like anything a priest would wear.
I might be wrong, but to me it now looks like it's a picture of a leather jacket (texture, front pockets and all), darkened to black, and someone has added a white square over the throat in photoshop.

Personally I also liked the more blank face better, it allows the viewer to imagine what sort of expression this priest might have? Is it one of disbelief (God, what have I done?), one of anger (Body of Christ, motherfucker!) or perhaps something else entirely?

[nads]

Thanks, Wham. I do like the faceless one as well, seeing how I haven't settled on a design for the priest character yet, I was going for more that sort of "who is this priest?" angle. As for the the priest collar, you guess it, it was just whipped up in photoshop. It rough idea for the game is that one person is chosen to do the "lords" dirty work. This is some old testament shit right here. Where instead of floods/plagues/etc. He sends in one man, a person who is given a second chance to save himself from the depths of hell, to be the vengeful hand of god. Just a point+click/side scrolling action game, taking a nod to 70-80's b grade action/grindhouse films. (Hence why I went lazy and just photoshop'd Charles Bronsons face on the front). So I guess normally, yes a priest wouldn't be really seen in a jacket, but you're right. I do need to change up the jacket/collar part.

[Andail]

From a aesthetical perspective, it's a nice poster. Nice colours and layout. The motif itself is very cheesy, and I can't take it seriously. It strikes me as a Photoshop Phriday entry, made for a comedic effect.
Nevertheless, it's nice-looking

[nads]

Hahah the poster/idea was never meant to be taken seriously. That's the whole point. I don't think I was fishing for "thought provoking" idea comments. It's all for a laugh and if I do go ahead I hope people go the same way about it and have fun with it. But thanks for the kind words Andail.

Anyway, I added a skyline of New York in the background (Which I'm already thinking I should have it standing a bit taller. Added the crosses for T's (Which i might have to fool around with to match up with the text abit more.) And the background changed up abit which got rid of the lighting of the darker areas. Also I made a cleaner version of the poster, because after I'm finally happy with it, I'm going to dirty it up a bit with folds/rips/dirty it up abit. To give it more of a Grindhouse/Vintage look to it.

EDIT: I updated another picture with the changes I wanted to make.

EDIT: Ok, So I've upload a last image, which I'm pretty happy with. I worked on the taglines abit, giving it something a bit simpler. I added a few folds and rips here and there. But that's pretty much it I think. If anyone has anything else they want to add, by all means go for it! Thanks for your help again guys!