Appropriation??

So theres this assignment where we're suppose to ripoff other people's work and edit it to suit our own taste ... This reminded me of a previous assignment I did before and I did not submit it for my final portfolio because of copyright issues ... Perfect chance to blow off the dust!

I'm a serious World Of Warcraft junkie ( meaning when Cataclysm comes I'll wet my pants ) so I embarked on a mini project to make a poster for WoW ...

Made entirely from actual game screenshots, which explains the horrible cropping lol ... It's a bit outdated since this is expansion 2 and we're already near the tail end of expansion 3 but Burning Crusade was where I spiraled into the realm of WoW addiction so this kind of pays homage to it :D

This design had been stuck in my brain for quite some time, finally I got the time to mess around with it. "Save Azeroth" has the familiar in-game font that's horrible to read on your mail. Huge Horde logo on the right to show my faction of choice. Middle is the Dark Portal, which is central to the storyline plus it looks kickass. I wanted to give it an invasion look , so I got many different characters in a nice semi circle shape at the bottom , all eyes on the poor nightelf in the centre. Nightelf = Alliance = Not Horde = In Trouble.

It's a bit bottom heavy given the mashup of colourful characters but I think I achieved the "greatness of numbers" look. You know, when you watch Lord of the Rings and see 1000000000 soldiers on screen and go "OMFG..." ? Smaller scale here but same effect. The colour is pretty contrasting , overall colour combination came out well. Could use a bigger border though ...

For the Horde!