"The Curse of the Black Spot"
These are some banners and graphics I made from my friend Combom's Doctor Who blog site over the past weeks. It was fun to make these and big thanks to Combom for letting me play on his playground.
This all started with just wanting to add a little more flair and smooth edges to the original banner that Combom had and so started the opportunity to make some more graphics, including a fanciful watery "We Want You To Watch" banner.
"The Doctor's Wife"
"The Doctor's Wife" had few promo shots that weren't shot on set and very few actually flattering shots of Suranne to use as Idris, so I outlined this one from a magazine cover scan.
Variations and the one Combom chose for the "We Want You To Watch" image.
These two silly variants were to amuse myself when I went looking to see via Google Image Search if there were other images of Suranne I could use. Before I knew she'd be the physical embodiment of the TARDIS's mind, I thought what if she was actually a previous wife of the Doctor and what did he see in her? Suranne has a bit of a pin-up past so fun with the Liquefy Tool in Photoshop to animate her.
"The Rebel Flesh"
Well that expression on Matt's face was priceless.
The variations on the "We Want You To Watch" image.
This one was meant to be just silly riffing on the album cover of the old 80's rock band Scorpions "Blackout".
The final image used.
"The Almost People"
Again, hard to find anything other than a screen grab of the Ganger Doctor, so he wasn't unfortunately as sharp and crisp an image.
This was quite a tall order as there wasn't much in the way of dramatic promo photos other than the a cover scan which required heavy retouching with the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop to get rid of the original magazine type.
"A Good Man Goes To War"
This was kinda funny in that this is the one Combom liked, which I meant to be a work in progress! The other two was what I was heading toward, but the customer is always right...
Big thanks to Combom and PCJonathan for additional scanning and screen-grabs from trailers and such. And Tenth Planet and Blink for tolerating an old fart on the team.
