These new Star Wars DVD works were obviously made in Photoshop, and its purpose was possibly to have the ability to reposition the characters in order to make promotional materials. …Doesn’t stop it from looking tacky, though.

I’ve noticed a trend in movie poster design to be VERY simple lately, often comprised of one or two subjects in a symmetrical layout… and this I suspect is due to adapting the imagery not just for posters, but for DVD covers, web sites, billboards, banners, promotional materials, etc. It’s like the posters are no longer posters, in the traditional sense, but displays of the movie’s “icons”, as it were.

…my two cents.

Drew Struzan: “Why do you use illustration to advertise and represent your projects? Computer manipulated photographs dominate the advertising of so many studios, but you continue to loyally choose illustration….”

George Lucas: “The kind of movies I make are more fanciful in nature, more mythical in nature. To market my films, I like to move one step away from photo- realism to something that’s a little grander, a little more glorious, and something a bit more romantic than what you get with just simple photographs.”

But what’s up with Solo in the Return of the Jedi poster? He looks like he’s trying not to throw up on Leia’s head…