tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937367939997589548.post1396608238860712971..comments2024-03-26T07:11:42.094-07:00Comments on The Soundtrack Gallery: Custom Soundtrack Covers: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (John Powell)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937367939997589548.post-35574651440474168292021-06-29T07:32:04.691-07:002021-06-29T07:32:04.691-07:00Many thanks! Glad you discovered the site, I'v...Many thanks! Glad you discovered the site, I've been around for about a year now, still trying to build an audience and keep up the output, always delighted to have another visitor and fan!Joel Griswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813100309219451077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937367939997589548.post-59349750067161331362021-06-16T09:06:59.696-07:002021-06-16T09:06:59.696-07:00Wow, you are brilliant. As a custom cover collecto...Wow, you are brilliant. As a custom cover collector I am shocked I only just found you now! Was making suites of HTTYD trilogy and found your link in the SB discussion of the Deluxe Edition of the score from FALCON. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15012187775911711257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937367939997589548.post-48929557940425017922021-01-25T14:39:47.396-08:002021-01-25T14:39:47.396-08:00Thanks, as always, for your comments and paying so...Thanks, as always, for your comments and paying so much attention to all the details!<br />Interesting observations about the marketing for the trilogy, I agree they haven't always been great at really capturing the tone and heart of the stories, even though the sequels certainly had much more enjoyable art, just visually speaking. <br />As to the question of providing some consistent and matching covers throughout all 3 projects, I kinda agree, I maybe didn't provide this as much as I could/should have. For the first project, there was only one prominent bit of concept art that I recall, the green-hued one of Hiccup first interacting with Toothless at the lake. I guess I just skipped it, because personally I wasn't a huge fan of that piece, the art style just felt a little too unpolished, and I usually only bother making cover that I personally could enjoy having as a potential cover. That said, that piece would pair nicely with Cover 10 in this set, so maybe I should add that one back to the original at some point.<br />I never found scans from the 'Art Of' books from 1 and 2, other than the cover. Actually, I did see some scenic design images from 2, which maybe came from that book, but honestly with 14 covers already, I kinda felt like it might be overkill to keep adding more. With 'Hidden World', it made more sense to add those, cause there were fewer overall official posters to use, and I liked the tonal variety. Even in the third book, I feel there's a lot of images that aren't in the scans here either, that I probably would have enjoyed using, but again, I felt I had done more than enough already, and had to cut myself off sometime, lol.<br />I kinda felt bad about not proving options to match those covers you mentioned from 2... but I primarily approached each cover independently, and none of them really seemed to suggest using that off-center titling that I'd used in #10 (of 2). Originally I was gonna go #10 here, that way, mimicking the actual art book text, but again, once I actually worked with it, I just felt that centered just fit it better. <br />I debated also trying to re-create that little frame used on #12-13 of the previous set, though the only one I think it would really suit here would be #11 (I think using it on the lower 3 scenic ones would just be too cluttered and busy). Maybe I can try updating cover 11 to provide that matching option just in case people might enjoy it. Though of course then film 1 would still be missing a matching cover.<br />So in conclusion, even though I put a ton of work into this as is, and I'm quite happy with my work... in terms of providing matching trilogy pairings, I guess I kinda failed a bit on that goal. Certainly something I'll need to be more conscious of in any future franchise covers. <br />Thanks again for all the support and detailed engagement with the material!Joel Griswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813100309219451077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937367939997589548.post-36096078445621261002021-01-24T05:07:33.476-08:002021-01-24T05:07:33.476-08:00Okay so I'll just say it, this is clearly the ...Okay so I'll just say it, this is clearly the best set of the three for the 'Dragon' scores. Not just in quantity, although that is also important, but the quality is just that little bit better too. I think you chose good artwork, which is tough given the maturing tone of the series compared to where it started. In fact, that might actually be a bit of a problem. Not on your end, since you're working mainly with official material. But looking at all three sets now, and even the official covers we got, the three promotional campaigns seem somewhat disjointed. As for how it affects your three sets of covers, the first set not having any of the more abstract art that the later two have (referring to the last few covers) makes it feel a little awkward. But, what can you do? The promotional campaign for the first film didn't really do that. Even the "Art Of..." book seems really short on useable material, in my opinion anyway, especially compared to the wealth of covers you could make from the "Art Of..." book for the third film. Speaking of which, I was debating whether to link you those high-res pics in the previous thread, but I trusted you might've gone looking for them yourself after our discussion. And you did, even used the same Reddit link! And good thing too because those three are my easy favourite of the set, I just naturally gravitate to the simpler, atmospheric designs of those covers. Although, I was surprised there wasn't at least one cover which used the logo placement of the #10 cover or the fancy box design of #12 & #13 from the 'How To Train Your Dragon 2' cover set. It could help show off more of the picture, and it'd look nice in your library with matching covers. In fact that's what I'm doing now, trying to make covers for 1 and 3 to match the #10 cover from your 'Dragon 2' set, although finding a good image for 1 is proving tough, I don't like most of the material from the 'Art Of...' book. Ah well, I'll hopefully think of something.<br />Congratulations on finishing your first series of cover sets!GlassButterflieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08764703225670242312noreply@blogger.com