I wanted to create an information slip about the film and how it came into existance that would slot into the inside of the DVD case. Here it is:
I wanted the DVD cover to look like the book that attracts the Librarians attention in the film. I scanned into Photoshop the book that I used in the animation for the background. I wanted the writing and images that I used on the cover to look like gold embossing. I took the image that I was going to use of the Librarian and altered the threshhold of the image: I could the select all of the black in the image and remove it: This left me with just the outline of the image I wanted so I could select it and paint it gold: Here is the final outcome:
I didn't want anything overcomplicated on the disc, just the title and an image. I chose to use this design: This is what it looks like on the disc:
I've been creating the DVD project in Encore and wanted a menu to appear on screen before the film itself plays.
This is what the menu will look like with a play button to start the film: |