Redesigned Ep Cover Art!, Analyzed Within Options

[thefireball]

Hey guys, I redesigned my band's artwork for our upcoming EP. I talked to the studio guy and he is going to be working on the songs for mixing. So the EP is coming just as soon as he can get it done, and I am working on some bonus things in the background, this art being one.



After looking at the old one for a long time, I decided Analyzed Within needed better cover art for the release of the EP, "Living in the Last Days." I began searching online for someone else to take my concept and make it better. But I knew the turnaround would be about a week and would cost me a lot. We are giving this EP away, and we have already put a lot of money into this project, i.e. a $300+ mic in which we recorded vocals.

What do you guys think of the finished piece? I spend hours last night compositing 3 NASA images and custom airbrushing the titles with the font of Alternity. I wanted it to look more apocalyptic than the previous art; thus, the sun looks like it's about to swallow the planet. The ground is actually Mars, a picture from Curiosity. The sky is a Crab Nebula with the colors tweaked to my original color theme, almost as though hellfire is in the sky. I tried to imagine what color the ground would be if this scene were truly unfolding. Actually, the human eye could not see this anyway - it would be too bright - the sun being a blinding blotch.

When my brother creates album art he keeps in mind a wallpaper resolution instead of just the standard square ratio. It bugged me that I had not thought of that myself. Maybe people would want a wallpaper version that filled their whole screen too. So I have a square version with the sides cut off for the actual cover. I want to create a digital booklet.

I wanted a 4K resolution (2160p), but the ground I was using wasn't that large, so I settled for 1080p. (Curiosity was in the way). I'll include the high-def photo in the release of the EP when you download it on Bandcamp. I wish I could set a release date but I don't know when our studio guy will be finished. But at least our part is done!


--Brandon

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