Xenoblade Movie Poster

Introduction

In my most recent project, I decided to make a poster of one of my favorite games, Xenoblade Chronicles, in the style of Soul Bass. Basically, what I did, was to find examples of Soul Bass movie posters, and do it in that style. It's a more simplistic design than the really complex design.

Goals

My goal was to create a poster that dealt with the complexities the game's story holds, yet still keep it simple. The blade itself that you see (the red sword) is a massive part of the game, as most of the game is trying to find the secrets of the Monado and learning it's true meaning. The character in the middle is the character that shows up when you use the attack 'Buster'.

Background and Type

I chose to make the background blue as it goes well on the Monado's blue lines, and it was a nice calming color that wasn't too bright, or too dark.

The text was one of the biggest issues that I had in making my poster. In the end, I went with a fairly simple type, Helvetica, as the original game's logo used a modified version of Helvetica. I made sure that the X was bigger than all the other ones and stood out compared to the other letters. I decided to put in the Japanese word at the bottom (which just says 'Xenoblade') because the game is Japanese and felt like it was a quality addition to the poster itself.

The sentence "The Future Is Not Written" is a massive term in the game, as much of the game is fighting for the Homs (a race very similar to the humans), High Entia and Nopon (both races from the game) to hold their own destiny, and to not be controlled.

Time Management 

When working on the poster, I actually found the time management to not be that big of a deal. I enjoyed making the poster and usually my next thing just flowed in. This took me about a week and a half to make, and I think that's not a bad amount of time to make it. I feel like I did a very good job on making the poster in a timely fashion while still making a quality piece. I have a calendar in my sketchbook to log what I've been doing and what I've done. 

What I Used

The poster itself was made in Illustrator. The Monado was edited in Photoshop to give it the pure red and blue colors, though. The text was edited in a separate Illustrator file, and then was brought over into the poster and edited it/scaled it as it needed on the poster. 

In Conclusion

I am very proud of my work on this poster, and I feel like it turned out very very well! I had a lot of fun working on it and it's been awesome.