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Student Council President
In this thread I will be sharing some of the custom Blu Ray covers that I have made and I will also give a guide on how you can print these off yourself.
So for awhile now I have been collecting Blu Rays especially anime ones and with collecting these anime Blu Rays, over time I have came across many that just have down right awful graphic design, so much so that it makes me question how it ever got through the design stages. For the UK, Anime Limited (All The Anime) is by far the worst offender with their ugly and out of place spines along with their generic back info, next comes MVM Entertainment with their strange BBFC logo placement and MVM logo placement. Lastly comes Manga Entertainment UK who have mostly just copied Funimation graphic design which has led to mixed results.
With that out of the way, there is a couple of things I want to say before I go into the custom covers. Firstly I understand that sometimes these companies can be under strict guidelines on what their designs can look like along with what artwork they can use. Secondly I know that they are on budgets and they have deadlines to meet, where I am a lot more free to make what I want when it comes to these covers. Thirdly I have a background In graphic design and printing which makes it a lot easier for me to be able to make these covers.
This goes without saying but everything belongs to their respective owners and I am not making any money off of this. I am just doing it for fun and I also know that some of these covers might potentially be used by bootleggers which I don't condone. These covers are not supposed to act as replacements just alternatives to the originals.
Custom covers made so far:
1. Outlaw Star BD (Anime Ltd)
2. Baccano! BD (Anime Ltd)
3. Gurren Lagann BD (Anime Ltd)
4. Konosuba Season 1 BD (Anime Ltd)
5. Konosuba Season 2 BD (Anime Ltd)
6. All four Evangelion rebuild movies BD (Manga UK/Anime Ltd)
7. Serial Expermients lain BD (MVM)
8. Martian Successor Nadesico BD (Anime Ltd)
Nadesico: The Movie - The Prince of Darkness BD (Anime Ltd)
Shigurui: Death Frenzy BD (Manga UK)
All custom covers can be found at the bottom of this post.
Planned covers:
Moblie Suit Gundam Wing 1 & 2 + Endless Waltz (Anime Ltd)
Trigun Badlands Rumble BD (Manga UK/Kaze UK)
Chrono Crusade DVD (Anime Ltd)
Golden Kamuy Season 1,2&3 (Funimation UK&Madman Aus)
At one point I plan on doing the whole AL range.
This list is subject to change and I am happy to take requests for covers, I am also happy to hear peoples suggestions when it comes to the covers themselves, such as changes you might like to see or spelling mistake. I can only do standard Blu Ray covers, I do not know how to do slipcases or art boxes yet. The covers could be used for slipcovers if you wanted but you might have to do some adjusting which I couldn't comment on.
Here are some example of finished covers
As said earlier I am happy to change these in certain ways like removing "The complete series" or the BBFC logo. My design philosophy behind these is a mix between Anime Limited original design and some of Funimations design, by taking what I like from each I can make my perfect design.
How to print out these covers.
Now I am going to show you how to print off these custom covers as there is a couple of steps. Firstly you want to download the cover you want to use, you can do this right clicking on the image and then "save image as" or on mobile you can just screenshot it. Once you have the image you want to go to Google Drive and go to "New" and then open a "Google Docs"
Once you have your new Google Doc open you need to go to "File" and then "Page Setup"
And once you have done that change the "Paper Size" to "A3"
Now that it is A3 size you want to copy and paste your image into the doc and once you have done this you want to right click the image and go to "Image Options"
So for awhile now I have been collecting Blu Rays especially anime ones and with collecting these anime Blu Rays, over time I have came across many that just have down right awful graphic design, so much so that it makes me question how it ever got through the design stages. For the UK, Anime Limited (All The Anime) is by far the worst offender with their ugly and out of place spines along with their generic back info, next comes MVM Entertainment with their strange BBFC logo placement and MVM logo placement. Lastly comes Manga Entertainment UK who have mostly just copied Funimation graphic design which has led to mixed results.
With that out of the way, there is a couple of things I want to say before I go into the custom covers. Firstly I understand that sometimes these companies can be under strict guidelines on what their designs can look like along with what artwork they can use. Secondly I know that they are on budgets and they have deadlines to meet, where I am a lot more free to make what I want when it comes to these covers. Thirdly I have a background In graphic design and printing which makes it a lot easier for me to be able to make these covers.
This goes without saying but everything belongs to their respective owners and I am not making any money off of this. I am just doing it for fun and I also know that some of these covers might potentially be used by bootleggers which I don't condone. These covers are not supposed to act as replacements just alternatives to the originals.
Custom covers made so far:
1. Outlaw Star BD (Anime Ltd)
2. Baccano! BD (Anime Ltd)
3. Gurren Lagann BD (Anime Ltd)
4. Konosuba Season 1 BD (Anime Ltd)
5. Konosuba Season 2 BD (Anime Ltd)
6. All four Evangelion rebuild movies BD (Manga UK/Anime Ltd)
7. Serial Expermients lain BD (MVM)
8. Martian Successor Nadesico BD (Anime Ltd)
Nadesico: The Movie - The Prince of Darkness BD (Anime Ltd)
Shigurui: Death Frenzy BD (Manga UK)
All custom covers can be found at the bottom of this post.
Planned covers:
Moblie Suit Gundam Wing 1 & 2 + Endless Waltz (Anime Ltd)
Trigun Badlands Rumble BD (Manga UK/Kaze UK)
Chrono Crusade DVD (Anime Ltd)
Golden Kamuy Season 1,2&3 (Funimation UK&Madman Aus)
At one point I plan on doing the whole AL range.
This list is subject to change and I am happy to take requests for covers, I am also happy to hear peoples suggestions when it comes to the covers themselves, such as changes you might like to see or spelling mistake. I can only do standard Blu Ray covers, I do not know how to do slipcases or art boxes yet. The covers could be used for slipcovers if you wanted but you might have to do some adjusting which I couldn't comment on.
Here are some example of finished covers
As said earlier I am happy to change these in certain ways like removing "The complete series" or the BBFC logo. My design philosophy behind these is a mix between Anime Limited original design and some of Funimations design, by taking what I like from each I can make my perfect design.
How to print out these covers.
Now I am going to show you how to print off these custom covers as there is a couple of steps. Firstly you want to download the cover you want to use, you can do this right clicking on the image and then "save image as" or on mobile you can just screenshot it. Once you have the image you want to go to Google Drive and go to "New" and then open a "Google Docs"
Once you have your new Google Doc open you need to go to "File" and then "Page Setup"
And once you have done that change the "Paper Size" to "A3"
Now that it is A3 size you want to copy and paste your image into the doc and once you have done this you want to right click the image and go to "Image Options"
Once you have Image Options open you then want to click "Size & Rotation" and change the "Width" to "10.6" this will fit 14mm Blu Ray cases. Once you have done that all you need to do is print it. Before printing it off make sure its in colour and is going to be printed to what paper you wanted it printed to and what quality you want it printed to as well.
I hope this guide has been helpful and if you have any futher question don't hesitate to ask me as I am more than happy to help.
Due to image restrictions in posts I will leave links to the other posts containing the other version of the covers.
Custom Covers In Blu Ray Cases
Finished Covers
No Complete Series
No Age Rating Logo
Clean Covers
-=Evangelion Rebuild Covers=-
Evangelion 1.11 Manga UK Versions
Evangelion 2.22 Manga UK Versions
Evangelion 3.33 Manga UK Versions
Evangelion 3.0+1.11 Manga UK Versions
Evangelion 1.11 AL Versions
Evangelion 2.22 AL Versions
Evangelion 3.33 AL Versions
Evangelion 3.0+1.11 Al Versions
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