Love 'em both, especially the second one. That tagline is awesome.

I agree that the second poster is a little too….busy.

I think the construction equipment itself is superfluous as we can already see the cracks lead from the street all the way to the fire house. What does it look like without all the construction material around?

The line though is genius.

My professors always told me “the most simplistic answers are the better choices.”

Cliff, sorry I didn't reply to your email, was busy with work last week.

I love the teaser poster… hadn't even noticed you've subtly inserted the “3” into the cross bar, simple, effective and totally original in light of the collection of fan posters to date.

I love the second poster as well. The only things I'd change, would maybe remove the construction equipment, just leaving the cracks open and unguarded to suggest danger, and implement a dyanamic light source in the rift, illuminating the buildings from below with orange light, with the Ghostbusters sign probably being the sole source of white light… creating a draw for the eye which'd lead it straight to the no-ghost logo, and also subliminally suggest the idea of the speck of light fighting against the dark.



If you had no objection… I'd like to put together a piece inspired by your poster.

I love the second poster the best…

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If you had no objection… I'd like to put together a piece inspired by your poster.

Go right ahead, Ben. No problem at all

Thanks for the feedback and compliments, you guys! I really appreciate it!

love both of the new teaser posters

as always fixer i love it!

the teaser poster is well designed and just what you'd expect from a teaser poster.

and the second one is brilliant, pretty clever design, like the buster on the “men at work” sign too. i agree it may be a little too busy. clean some of the construction stuff away and as ben said some dynamic lighting and it'd be hella sweet. but even so, it's still pretty awesome.

nice work cliff!

-J.

Thanks, Ectoman and Jason!

By the way, Jason… You're the first to notice the ‘Ghostbusters at work’ sign!

What the comments are concerned…

The construction stuff was something that wasn't on my original design sketch, which was basically just the firehouse and the cracked street.
I decided to add the construction stuff later for several reasons. When I was working on the actual Photoshop work, it seemed to me that the pit looked a bit empty.
Also, the tagline didn't work as well without all the stuff around. It didn't look like the Ghostbusters were “on it” at all…
I thought having all the stuff around, the signs, the barriers and the Ecto Loader made the poster more fun and more Ghostbuster-ish altogether.

Of course, I realized that all the stuff make the poster look over-the-top and too busy. I preferred it that way.
Although I love simple, straight forward posters (like the GB3 teaser one I did and the Batman Returns teaser), I personally have no problem with ‘too busy’ ones…
In fact, some of my favourite movie posters are images where you wouldn't know where to look first. For example, there's this painted Star Wars IV poster design with one big space battle going on in front of an overly detailed Death Star. It was never used because some people probably thought it was too busy.
Almost twenty years later though, that same poster design was used as the cover image of the first Star Wars game on NES. Out of thousands of Star Wars imagery done to that date, JVC chose that particular image. Probably because they liked the fact it was so crowded.

I guess it's just a matter of opinion. Art is a matter of opinion, anyway. Some people like an image, some don't.
That's why I wouldn't say that “the most simplistic answers are the better choices”, like Scott's professor says. Sometimes they are, sometimes they ain't. It's not an absolute rule. It can't be. There are no absolute rules in art. At least there shouldn't be, in my opinion.

What Ben's dramatic light is concerned… He's absolutely right. That would've certainly worked. It would've worked if it was a night shot. And that was something I didn't want it to be.
Almost all my fanposters take place during the night, so I really wanted this one to be set during the day. It's as simple as that.

Thanks for all the comments and the feedback, y'guys. I hope my little rant explained why I made certain choices.

cheers,

Cliff

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Got to LOVE this!!!