Sunday, October 18, 2009

Antichrist Movie Poster Competition

CHUD.com had this snippet the other day about a Movie Poster Competition for the upcoming Lars von Trier flick 'Antichrist' (starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) —
IFC is looking for you to design a poster for the film. The prize? They will use YOUR POSTER in actual marketing for the movie. If you're into design this could be a major way to beef up your portfolio. How many other chances will you get to design the one sheet for a major motion picture? And if you're not into design but just good with the Photoshop, this could be an incredible opportunity to show the floating head poster makers that the little guy knows how to do it best.

Since I had nothing better to do, I actually spent the better part of the day making a poster for the movie. The original image was really huge - 5400x8000px! But you obviously don't have the time to watch a 54MB file load, so here's a much smaller version —


But when CHUD turns evil,
True tragedy awaits...

So I finish up the poster, upload the huge file to my site and go back to the post about the movie poster competition to find the email address to send it to. And what do I find? That the competition has been CANCELLED, due to some legal issues with IFC. Argh!

Oh well, I must keep telling myself that I had nothing better to do at the time I made this.

6 comments:

Ismaele said...

Dammit! =| It's a good poster anyway. ;)

Varun Abhiram said...

Whoa man that was lightning fast... I only made this post like 10 seconds ago :)

Glad you liked it!

sirish aditya said...

pity the competition was cancelled..but its a really good poster..!

Varun Abhiram said...

Thanks, and yeah, sucks that the competition was cancelled...

pablo dictter said...

too bad about the contest. its a pretty neat looking poster though :)

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