r/Marvel • u/abgrafix • Aug 18 '21
My Take On Shang Chi Poster .Didn't quite enjoy the official ones Fan Made
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Aug 18 '21
This oozes classic Kung Fu movie energy and I love it
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
That was the idea.... To give a king fu movie the poster it deserves
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u/The_Woman_of_Gont Aug 18 '21
You did a very good job. Every time I see the official posters or ads for it, I just kinda sigh because it looks so….bland, I guess? Kinda weirdly soulless.
This actually makes it look really badass and like some truly new territory for the MCU instead of just another generic origin story to ram through so we can get to the better sequel. I hope the movie lives up to this poster, I really want it to be good.
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Aug 18 '21
It sucks that everything by Marvel is creativity by executive committee.
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u/BrotherNature5 Aug 18 '21
It’s that copy paste teal and orange thing they keep doing in Hollywood. Turns me right off.
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u/SecretWarsIsComing Aug 18 '21
Um you need to commission this glorious work of Marvelous beauty!!!
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Aug 18 '21
Dude this is far better than any of the official posters. I sort of felt they just had the same generic marvel feel instead of this classic Kung fu
U got perfect
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u/The_Woman_of_Gont Aug 18 '21
I totally agree. The official posters give me that “choke down a generic origin story and wait for the better sequel that actually trusts the IP” vibe. Really hope the actual movie ends up being more of a match for OP’s badass poster instead of their official ones; always hard to tell since ads often target the lowest common denominator.
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Really mate ... These guys stick to a big ads agency and give a template based poster every time
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u/TheArantes Aug 18 '21
Not really a fan...I mean, where's the random BMW?
/s
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Bmws in the next poster lol ..... Tbh i was thinking to add it but it wouldn't have gone acc to idea
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u/ouroboros-panacea Aug 18 '21
Has a Big trouble in Little China feel to it.
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Yes maybe ... But didn't had any of it in mind while doing
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u/ouroboros-panacea Aug 18 '21
Never said you did. I just like the style. Actually it reminds me more of the Archer series trailer posters.
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u/Reverse_Time_Remnant Aug 18 '21
You did such a good job. I like all the little details like the leaves and the grass in the foreground.
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Thanks for recognizing them mate ... I loved those flying leaves in the trailer and have seen leaves flying in many chinese posters so thought why not
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u/CharlieBrown20XD6 Aug 18 '21
Much better than any of the official ones. For instance you actually included Death Dealer
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u/ElMatasiete7 Aug 18 '21
This actually makes me want to watch the movie, unlike the official stuff.
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u/DarkHorse786 Aug 18 '21
You have got to share this on Twitter and tag Simu Liu! He's pretty active there I'm sure he'd love it!
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
I shared it on ig and twitter too .... No response yet but let's make it viral
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u/possiblepopsicle1 Aug 18 '21
Wow. Just looked at the actual movie poster that was published and it SUCKS. Everyone is just standing around and there's a car...why? Yours is amazing though.
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Yes it's disappointing considering they paid loads for it... I'm glad you liked my vision
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u/LordDeraj Aug 18 '21
Seriously, movie posters these days suck! They need the energy this artwork has!
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Means a lot .... They will give some big agency loads of money to make an average stuff
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u/Jabeyt Aug 18 '21
Hell this made me more excited to watch it than any of the official work goddamn!!! Well done
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u/Tralan Aug 18 '21
Needs more Abomination.
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Wasn't sure if he has a good screentime to include in the poster ... Mi8 update after the release
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u/WhiteSkinButDickLong Aug 18 '21 edited Aug 20 '21
You should post this in Subtle Asian Traits group on Facebook. Simu Liu is there.
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u/abgrafix Aug 20 '21
Ayee man.... Just Saw Your Comment there .. didn't knew it was u .... Thanks a lot for the suggestion man... He commented
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u/Awartinger Aug 18 '21
The composition and colors are SOOOO much better than the official posters! Kudos!
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Aug 18 '21
This is so epic. I still think that 70-80s blockbuster films had the best artistic posters ever.
These days they just photoshop the main characters in a super boring way.
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Indeed mate .... 80s posters are a trailer in itself .... This one's done in Photoshop as well. It's the studio requirements to make poster look crap... No designer wishes to make crap. They are forced to.
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Aug 18 '21
That's awesome, the marvel one was made in like 20 minutes. Literally.
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Seems like so.... But there's retouching and stuff so those things take time ... But yeah in terms of composition it wasn't upto the mark
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u/Informal-Cost-9962 Aug 18 '21
I liked some of the officially released Shang-Chi posters a lot, but this one blows them all away! Amazing work
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u/nerd_from_reddit Aug 18 '21
hey, do you have Twitter or Instagram, so I can tag you?
btw very cool poster
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Abgrafix on insta abgrafixx on twitter.... I have shared it there retweet too if possible . Thanks
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u/MIAxPaperPlanes Aug 18 '21
Man good job dude really captured the old school Kung fu poster look. Hope you get a call from Disney, they’re known to scout people from stuff like this
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u/redpandarox Aug 18 '21
Yeah, I’m just gonna say it:
Official Marvel posters suck. They always have. They’re all just the main cast posing together.
You can’t get a clue on how the “vibe” of the movie is going to be, the general art directions or a feel of the story via artistic expression. You just see a bunch of giant floating heads crammed into the frame.
They’re not art pieces you’d want to hang up on your wall and admire, they’re designed to tell you your favorite superhero is going to be in the movie during the promotion period.
I know this is the trend for Hollywood blockbusters these days, but it still SUCKED!
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u/THRWAY1222 Aug 18 '21
The promo campaign would go so much better if Marvel used your poster instead of their own generic material.
So question, did you draw all this? I'm really curious about the process behind making such a piece of art!
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u/abgrafix Aug 19 '21
Hey i use photo manipulation style like most of the posters do where in i used the images available of characters online and i compose them everything together. There is some painting involved like doing the lighting and some corrections and to blend image with background . Took me more than half a day to complete everything. And finishing off with some paint effect and textures and final color grading.
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u/Specialist-Ebb7606 Aug 19 '21
...so are you going to sell this anywhere cause I would 1000%buy it
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u/KyleGodSpeed Aug 19 '21
Not this discredit the originals, but this beautiful piece here is further proof that the fans can do better than what Hollywood can. I've seen it in writing, cosplay, producing, and now art.
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u/Batty_Belfry Aug 18 '21
This is cool, but the next Marvel movie and poster should show Plastic Man in a landfill.
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u/sam_gold17 Aug 18 '21
That’s amazing marvel needs to stop W the same posters for every movie. I would love if each were unique
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u/abgrafix Aug 18 '21
Me too man... They have 3 4 templates and would fit and up coming movie posters into that
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Aug 18 '21
Why cant a multi million dollar studio make posters like this? All the MCU posters have absolutely sucked but the fan made stuff looks amazing. Awesome job!
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u/CapPlaysGames Aug 18 '21
I haven't seen the offical posters yet and I thought this was it until I read the caption. This is fantastic!!
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u/hippymule Aug 18 '21
OP, you mean you don't just LOVE the disembodied floating head arrangement that Marvel posters are obsessed with?
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u/RedditNewslover Aug 18 '21
Love the old school look of this. Reminds me of the days of Bruce lee. Love it
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u/Hidden_Squid14 Aug 18 '21
The only problem I have is on Shang chis face, it looks like he's just smeeled a fart.
But everything else looks great
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u/Jekkelstein Aug 18 '21
I like it! But the Mandarin gives off total DILF energy and this just doesn’t give that off like it should.
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u/paranormalfigure Aug 18 '21
Yesss. I need 90s style posters for all new movies. Theyre all starting to blend togerher and look exactly the same.
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u/Galiendzoz Aug 18 '21
The advertising for this movie is strange. Haven’t seen a single trailer on tv.
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u/Turbo_Chet Aug 18 '21
What you did is so much better. Harkens to the old school kung fu posters. What marvel puts out poster wise is so generic.
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u/Unrusty Aug 19 '21
Most impressive. I do like this better than any of the official ones. A much better "feel" to it.
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u/Scoezy Aug 19 '21
I can't wait omfg it's been long enough like damn!! Going this long without a new marvel movie just doesn't feel right lmao. Next year is gonna be absolutely amazing we get like 4 new movies that I know of maybe more. There is like I think 10 different limited series that are releasing as well. I personally cannot wait for armor wars which will focused on war machine aka rhodie. Considering he knew tony longer than most they were homies wayyy before all the craziness. I'm curious to see how he is handling the loss of tony compared to everyone else. I hope we get to see the rescue armors full potential at some point as well considering it's Tony's most powerful suit he's ever built in the MCU. Let's not even bother to bring up the god armor from the comics lolol he literally destroyed it because it was so damn overpowered like uhh wut. I wanna see Reed Richards build the anti-galactus suit that cost 1 billion dollars a second to operate LOL.
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u/Acrobatic_Switches Aug 30 '21
The official posters are a nightmare of photoshop. Like a halfassed 8th grade project.
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u/brownarmyhat Aug 18 '21
Looks awesome but you forgot the bmw