You know how sometimes when you look at something, and you’ll go, “oh my, I think anybody can do a better job than that”? This is probably what John Struan was thinking when he held a contest on his blog to redesign the official posters (to which he described as “boring and ugly”) of X Men: First Class.
The official posters:
And…… Here are the awesome contest entries:
by Rory Phillips
by Clyde Bailey – The winning entry!
by Gruffydd Ywain
by Josh Siegel
by Michael Dee – My personal fave!
by Dane Forst
by Jeffrey Zhang
You can see all the entries on the blog, Super Punch.
Oh, this is one of the entries too, but the guy went all out and made an animated title sequence!
The whole retro feel of the 1960s style animation and the melancholic rendition of the 90s cartoon theme song really gets me! Apart from the incredible creative style, it actually resembles (if not better than) the look of the closing credit animation of the actual movie! It baffles me how Joe D! predicted the styling (the contest was held before the movie is out!), but I’m sure he must have jumped out of his seat in joy in the cinema when he caught the movie!
P/s: You can download the awesome sauce music here!
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