Cover design for Constructing Green Lantern: From Page to Screen
Chapter opening spread design.
A handful of my favorite spreads from the book feature special effects make up and models.
An example of one of the three section design spreads and concept artwork.
Author Ozzy Inguanzo was able to borrow director Martin Campbell's personal shooting script and take a few shots of it for our book.
A spread design that shows the actors on set and 3D character models.
Another of my favorite spreads that features models of a grotesque head transformation.
Constructing Green Lantern: From Page to Screen was the second book that I designed for DC Comics and Universe. It was written by Ozzy Inguanzo and features an introduction by Geoff Johns. Ozzy was the perfect author of this movie book because he was part of the production team on the film itself. He was deeply involved in the process as I put together the book design in the best possible way. He practically had every image stored in his memory, and could suggest an alternate piece of art here or there that he knew existed on a concept artist’s hard drive somewhere. Then he would go get it.
A selection of the early cover design rough directions.
Though the film had finished shooting live action footage when we began working, the special effects and animation were still deep in production the entire time we were making the book. When the cover concepts were due, I only had a handful of watermarked concept images to use out of the hundreds that I would eventually have access to as more special effects shots were completed. Above are some of the early roughs that were not that successful. The Ryan Reynolds pose satisfied Rizzoli/Universe, DC Comics and Warner Bros. simultaneously the best since it strongly identified with the movie in a single glance. The creative part of the cover design became laying out the lettering and designing in a new background of concept art behind the figure. Under the jacket on the book’s case is a fantastic wrap around concept piece by Justin Sweet, whose work is heavily featured throughout the book.