Sunday, August 16, 2009

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

This may be my favorite cover that I have created. It's just crazy, fun, and trippy. I took a classic image from this 1920 German masterpiece of Avant Garde and modified it to conjure the feeling I got from the movie. My intention is for it to feel like a diorama inside a wooden cabinet or box. I tried to create this by using a picture of wood texture and piecing together with a little perspective and shading. The rest is much of the same: taking selected elements from the original image, enlarging them, and adding some shading and perspective to make it feel 3D on a 2D plain. If you haven't seen the movie, this is how I think the basic sets feel.

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