Inspired by the Sno-Cat movie trading card for The Shining (updated link), I started messing around with how I could do this in GIMP. While playing I started to think, why can’t we animate the movie scenes? A few hours later I figured it out and I’m currently working on a tutorial—I already submitted a new assignment for this in the Animated GIF category. There are a few things I need to clean up, like adding the trademark information below the Flamethrower title and making the card look a bit worn. Above is my first experiment with one of my all-time favorite films The Thing (1982)—and if you know the film you know how important the flamethrower truly is!
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Never leave home without one! Love it. Maybe some sort of points or magic token icons could go on the card edge?
Totally rad… What would the back look like? Or is it one of those things that you need a thin sheet of red plastic to see the ratings, like on old Transformers? I’m just spitballing, it’s not all gonna be gold.
mbransons’ Dirty Dozen (http://www.michaelbransonsmith.net/blog/2012/07/21/dead-men-dont-have-to-drill/) would be perfect for this. Collect all 12!
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@Alan,
I need to look at the old scans of those Star Wars classic trading cards to get those details worked out.
@Brian,
Something like this: http://www.globalpop.com/NON-SPORTSEpisodeIII.htm
I was thinking of the back as a two paragraph interpretation of the significance of the scene. Might be fun.
@Paul,
I agree, Branson;s stuff would play into this nicely, his recent Tector GIF for Wild Bunch would be a layup for featuring The Wild Bunch.