The VGBA Halloween Box Design Event - Round 1

[Drakxxx]

Greetings!

Here are the general details I'll be putting into effect for all 3 planned round of this event:

.A complete front and back is required for all entries.

.Any available template is find to use, just follow standard VGBA
courtesy and credit the template's creator on your design.


.I'd prefer it if you can upload your box after I post you and your opponent's round. If we can keep the designs under wraps
until the actual match thread, I believe people will get more interested in voting then.

As a prize for the overall winner of the event, I'll be sending you a brand spanking new
"Scareperson" t-shirt that I had recently printed over at the shirt.woot site. It's perfect for
celebrating Halloween without a costume!




ROUND 1: OLD SCHOOL HORROR FILMS:

For the first round of this special Halloween event, I'd like to see you guys go back to the roots of the Horror Cinema genre, and design a box for a horror film that was released prior to 1990. Doing a search for your movie of choice for this round on www.imdb.com
would be a great place to start, as it will give you a usually detailed synopsis of the film, as well as potentially provide links to other sites for artwork and other media.

Any of the quite infamous and classic Universal movie monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man) are good examples, as are any of the number of slasher films that dominated the genre during the 80's. (Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, etc.).
The underground horror of the Grindhouse era of cinema had some of the most amazing posters for films as well. Some of which are just begging to be creatively implemented into an awesome box art.

The only requirement other than the subject matter, is that I'd like you to design your boxes as if they were recently re-released into the current market. Taglines and blurbs such as "REMASTERED DIGITAL TRANSFER, THE CULT HIT THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD, and FIRST TIME ON DVD" would be some of the possibilities I'd like to see on your design.

Also, feel free to create your design as either a DVD or Blu-Ray format movie.

MATCHUPS:

I created the match ups to be as fair as possible. If you think I've squared you off against someone unfairly, please let me know and I'll do my best to make alterations.

Death vs. Geno
stevencho vs. Hawt Es
Ayron vs. Jevangod
XCore vs. Mad Spike
Pan vs. Silent Oblivion
tat76 vs. SilentMan101
Zelda152 vs. Delicious1
Ervo vs. master general
Halfswiss vs. Roza
Enchanter vs. clink
Eggboy'13 vs. super mega hyper sonic

Potential Fill ins.
(Artists here will be contacted in order if a currently signed up artist can no longer compete in the contest. There is no obligation if your name is on this list, as this is just out of courtesy and further attempts at keeping things as organized as possible.)

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Please submit your design to me via PM by Friday, October 9th. As I mentioned in the sign up thread, I'd like the contest to run strong through October, and have an overall winner on Halloween. Taking this into consideration, please be as timely as possible with your designs.

Thanks again guys, and if there's any question about the contest in general, or this specific round, drop them on in the thread, and I'll get right back to you.

Thanks again for signing up guys, and I can't wait to see what you come up with. Also, if anyone would like me to take a look at there design in progress for Round 1, please feel free to PM it to me.

[Silent Oblivion]

I want that awesome shirt.

I'm putting all of my free time into this. Good Luck, Pan!

[Mad Spike]

Sounds great I like the t-shirt - never wears green color before

[super-mega-hyper-sonic]

Good Luck Eggboy!

[KoopaDasher]

So are you wanting the actual design to mimic the style of those older movies, and be really corny and old... or when you say re-released do you mean like completely re-done, and that we should take the character like Jason, or Frankenstein, or Dracula, and actually make the cover look like a more modern movie?

[Mad Spike]

The second thing.

[Drakxxx]

So are you wanting the actual design to mimic the style of those older movies, and be really corny and old... or when you say re-released do you mean like completely re-done, and that we should take the character like Jason, or Frankenstein, or Dracula, and actually make the cover look like a more modern movie?

It'll be a box design for an old movie that will be currently released on dvd. Not a re-make concept. Basically the film your designing a box for will be the original, but with new packaging for it's re-release that is spiced up a bit for the current market.

This is a pretty good example to give you an idea:

This is the original box art for Friday The 13th Part 7:


Paramount recently re-released the films with new packaging on DVD.
this is the new box art for the same movie:

[Eggboy'13]

Good Luck Eggboy!

Good luck!


Also, I think that sending PM reminders helps a comp run smoothly, just a thought.

[jevangod]

We need to hurry up and get this started. Cause by the time this is over Halloween will be gone and ill have to wait till next year to wear this awesome t-shirt

[Hawt Es]

damn I have been everywhere lately, not to mention I have been bone dry with ideas. Anybody can replace me, but if you want me to enter drakxxx so your comp gets some more entries I will

[Drakxxx]

damn I have been everywhere lately, not to mention I have been bone dry with ideas. Anybody can replace me, but if you want me to enter drakxxx so your comp gets some more entries I will

Thats cool man, if you can get me something by tonight, that would be awesome, if not, no worries. I understand life can be crazy at times so it's cool.

I'm going to post what match ups I can this evening, and if I haven't heard back from the contestants I'm waiting on designs from by midnight, they're opponent will move on automatically if they've submitted me something.

[Ervo]

Done and done. I think I've never made a box this quickly...

[HalfSwiss]

Really sorry Roza. Couldn't find time in my busy life.

Guess you can take someone to fill in I guess? Or if Roza really wants to duel me I can make it this weekend.

[Hawt Es]

Thats cool man, if you can get me something by tonight, that would be awesome, if not, no worries. I understand life can be crazy at times so it's cool.

I'm going to post what match ups I can this evening, and if I haven't heard back from the contestants I'm waiting on designs from by midnight, they're opponent will move on automatically if they've submitted me something.

I probably came off sort of unreliable. I hate to no show to battles, and I'm usually pretty reliable, but I am just not able to finish this.

I will make sure to support your next comp, join it, and enter a graphic.

[alldreamsfalldown]

Crap!!! Why didn't I pay attention to this?

[jevangod]

Crap!!! Why didn't I pay attention to this?

Glad you didnt. Gives us a chance since you won Reed's

[Death]

So sorry drakxxx, i got to drop out.
Ive not only lost all my inspiration for box making, but have been crazy busy as of late. I really wish i could get this done, just have no time what so ever. Again i apologise

[Geno]

So sorry drakxxx, i got to drop out.
Ive not only lost all my inspiration for box making, but have been crazy busy as of late. I really wish i could get this done, just have no time what so ever. Again i apologise

Aww man .

I was so looking forward to pitting my boxarting skills against Death .

[Drakxxx]

Crap!!! Why didn't I pay attention to this?

I might have a handful of spots opening up for Round 2, since I had a sizable amount of cancellations. I'd love to get you involved ADFD, so I'll keep you posted if your interested.

@Death: I'm sorry to hear that man, but I understand. You've got a strong and unique style with this kind of medium, so I hope that inspiration gets back to you soon. Regardless, thanks for the initial interest.