Heisei/Millennium Godzilla Cover Make-Overs (WIP)

I can never find the name of the artist who did the poster art for the entire Heisei series and most of the millenium but his work is outstanding. I about died as a kid when I walked into the video store and saw that vhs cover for Biollante. I wish Mechagodzilla 1993 looked like his poster with a more powerful 1974 like robot and a Rodan that resembles his original (and still best 1956) look.

I'm not dissing your work here, but why not just replace the covers with their Japanese Blu Ray counter parts?

It'd be a lot less work.

Natezilla,
I'm not a huge fan of the Japanese Bluray covers either. Of the ones you posted only Godzilla against MechaGodzilla featured some really great artwork. The rest are either publicity photos or bad photoshops. I'm a fan of romanticized poster art from 70s and 80s Hollywood and with the exception of Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. the Heisei and Millennium series had some really gorgeous artwork which rarely gets used.

In addition to that I believe the boxart should still reflect what's on the actual disc and seeing as I A) Can't read Japanese and B) the information on those Japanese back covers wouldn't match the extras and information on the North American discs it seems counterproductive to use them. Plus there's an obvious lack of title-font connection between the covers you posted and the discs released in North America. I'm a stickler about that as well.

GMAN2887 - The work you've produced is astonishing! I greatly enjoy the use of the older artwork - very nice! Keep up the excellent work and thank you so very much for sharing this with us! :)

NPinkham19,
The poster artist for the Heisei series and at least two of the Millennium films was Noriyoshi Ohrai. Sorry I didn't tell you that earlier.

This is more or less the final result. I'll be moving to Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah next. Right click and hit "View Image" to see it much bigger:

If anyone would like the final version to print out for your own bluray discs, PM me and I'll send you a link to the full sized final.

Well that blows away the DVD cas I have. It reminds me of the one from the VHS case I have somewhere in storage

Slowly transitioning to the next movie. Note that the Miramax and Echo Bridge stickers are gone. They'll be replaced with Sony/Columbia stickers instead. I've yet to change the credits over and I'm adding an extra picture to hide some photoshop flaws. As usual, any criticism would be nice. The restshould go faster since they're all Sony and I won't have to switch up that information anymore.

I really wish that the other DVD and Blu-Ray distributors would emulate what Classic Media and Kraken Releasing did with designing their DVDs and Blu-Rays. These already look infinitely better than the other covers available from Sony and Echo Bridge.

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Wrapped up Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. The big change here is that all the Echo Bridge stickers, copyright and information has been replaced with Sony/Tristar stickers, info, addressess, etc. Since the rest of the films are from Sony, the rest will be considerably easier to ditch out. Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth is next on the chopping block.

Another preview of things to come.

And I'm struggling with the metallic text it looks fine on the front and the "special features" on the back. But it's a little hard to make out with anything else. I'm going to stick my guns with it for now, but if I stumble on something easier on the eyes I'll replace it.

natezilla10000 please upload The Rebirth of an Icon video to the YouTube

You know what's next.

As much as I love the covers for Godzilla vs Mothra: Battle for Earth, and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II being my favorite cover of all time I really feel like the author never saw these movies or stories before drawing it since the Godzilla vs Mothra one looks like it was made with the showa movie in mind and the Mechagodzilla on GvsMGII looks like a more badass version of the showa era's version moreso than the one we got in 92.

^I think timing was everything. My guess is that Toho knew what monster and vague direction they were going with those films, but didn't have the stories or designs down pat.

^ Which is exactly what I love about those posters. They give a nice imaginitive epic view of the movies without being limited by the stiffness of the suits (Destoroyah) and props (Rodan). The artist who drew the posters apparently also designed the Japanese Star Wars posters, artwork of which is popular among Star Wars fans even in the U.S.

I don't think any of that would have changed had the artist known the story. The Godzilla vs Mothra one is the worst about giving a false impression. I remember as a young child seeing that case at blockbuster and not renting it for a while simply because I thought it was the showa movie with a different case.

Been out of town for work, so the roll out has been slow. Here's the next cover:

Finally getting back to these, I've landed on a replacement for the secondary titles. I think I'll be sticking with this for the meantime:

The others with the changed font have been added in the original post.