Movie Posters

Friday, September 18, 2009

Preview!


(image by Joey D.)

The show preview is NOW LIVE! There are so many amazing pieces in this show!!

See all the work HERE: http://1988playing.blogspot.com/

Back to getting ready for the opening tonight. Hopefully we'll see you there!

G1988 SF

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Animal House- Slaughter Edition

I decided to indulge my inner 13-year-old (which turns out, actually isn't that far from the surface) and put together the ultimate frat "slaughter" house, made up of some classic and not-so-classic horror movie stars.

Before and after below, to see the identifying key, click HERE.

before

after

I'm really excited to see the rest of the posters!

xx Kiersten

Terminator 2: Valentines Day




"T2: VALENTINES DAY"
by Tim Tomkinson
gouache, ink, pencil, & collaged paper
30" x 42"

I was stoked when I got this poster. Definitely one of my favorites when I was a kid!

I wanted to flip the mood of this poster around a bit.. to show the softer side of this badass, rough-and-tumble Terminator character. Who's to say he didn't celebrate Valentine's Day? Or Cinco de Mayo? ... or even Flag Day? I bet he loves them all.

This piece was definitely a challenge. I
first took Katie's advice (via Lawrence Yang) to mount the poster onto Elmer's Foam Board, then I sealed the whole thing with a coating of matte medium.. both of which worked like a charm. I was originally going to try to paint directly onto the poster (or if that didn't work, the matte medium), but I use gouache so it didn't work too well. That left me with collaging in a background to work on, which was pretty tedious. Some of the flowers and leaves (and other random doodles) are drawn onto that first layer of collage, but a lot were drawn separately on different types of paper and then added in on top. For the title and tagline, however... I had to rely on photoshop and my ink-jet printer. Once I got the type, sizing, and color perfect, I printed them out, sealed them with matte medium, and glued them onto the poster. That actually worked better than I thought it would.. you can't even tell unless you get a couple inches away from the surface..

Well.. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the posters.. Wish I could make it out for the opening!

- Tim

Bio Top Pee Wee (Bioshock vs Pee Wee)



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Cory Benhatzel
"Bio Top Pee Wee"
acrylic on movie poster
41 x 27 inches
$250.00

Yes, I turned Pee Wee into a Splicer from Bioshock, the best game in the world (in my humble opinion).

Pee Wee was my hero growing up; I religiously watched him every Saturday morning and still watch his Christmas Special every year. Believe it or not, I still use the original VHS tape of the special that my parents recorded off TV for me 21 (!!!!) years ago!
Damn, I love me some Pee Wee Christmas Special.

I even remember crying harder when my dad told me that Pee Wee didn't exist than I did when I found out that there was no Santa Claus.

I was very excited that I was getting a Pee Wee poster to work with, but I was stumped on how to transform the poster. Justin and I were a LITTLE busy these past six months (moving cross country, buying our first house, getting new jobs and cars and getting married!) so this poster sat in it's tube for a few months.

I finally had the epiphany to combine two of my favorite things- Pee Wee and a Splicer from Bioshock.
Pee Wee is complete with his hypo of Eve, his pistol and his butterfly mask. I also think that his deranged expression perfectly fits the mood. I love this poster and hope that you do too.

<3 cory

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Friday the 13th - parts 1 through 9



Hi, here is a quick grid to show some of the work that went into this poster. Daniel and I had a lot of fun working on this!

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irma

Friday, September 11, 2009

The Magic is Back?



Lethal Weapon 2. For some reason I actually remember 1 & 2 fondly and can recall wishing I could dislocate my shoulder voluntarily like Riggs and live at the beach in a trailer. The poster, however, is a bit bland and took me a while to get any ideas. I included a few just to show you how lame brainstorming can get. Robocops still gets me though. In the end, I decided to go in a completely different direction. Hope you guys like it.

&Rew. I'm a poster poster.

I'm posting another shot of the poster.

Here's a bunch of in progress pics with varying degrees of "doneness". Werd?
I took pages from Maurice Sendak's children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" and I pasted them around and in the image, so it's a collage of my stuff and Maurice's stuff. I hope he doesn't mind, but it's the only thing I could think of when I got the Wild Things poster assignment.



here's a pic of it drying before I put some more touches, pack it, and ship it up to SF. I tried to jam this piece with a bunch of little stuff to look at. Maybe some of you internet peeps will get a chance to see it in person? If not, I'll try to get a decent photo up at some point. iPhone just isn't cutting it.



I hope some of your viewers dug the process. This piece was really fun to make, plus i love wildthings AND denise richards. allot. good combo - it's very Cookies and Cream, except less calories. Calories, at this point in my life, are something I DO NOT NEED.

F-ck it, I'm out. I've gotta go to the fridge and point a pint of cookies and cream. This post made me hungry.

cheers.
&Rew.

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