Movie Poster Render Size

whispers65

Hi...quick question...I've been thinking of making movie posters for my renders for some time now. When I create them what size should they be for good quality?

I think it should be easy enough (nothing is easy for me). I should be able to go into Hexagon and create the poster and then apply the image to it in Daz. That's the idea anyway. Then I can create a lot of one shot themes.

I got the idea when I was working on a bedroom. I used real posters at the time but never let anyone see it due to what I thought could be copyright issues. At least making my own, there wouldn't be that problem.

I'm already thinking about ones for The Crow, Jaws, etc. It could be a lot of fun.

Richard Haseltine

You'd want the pixel dimensions to be comparable to the size, in pixels, of the poster in the final render - so the question would be, how big are your renders, and how great an area of any render would you expect the poster to occupy?

whispers65

Richard Haseltine said:

You'd want the pixel dimensions to be comparable to the size, in pixels, of the poster in the final render - so the question would be, how big are your renders, and how great an area of any render would you expect the poster to occupy?

Hmmmm complications. I never really thought about render size before. I mainly just render to active viewport. My screen size is 1920 x 1080 so whatever the viewport ends of being from there. I guess I was thinking I could scale the poster to an actual size of a real life one.

I don't have any good examples since I was thinking of doing posters without an actual scene to use them in at the moment. Here is a pic I did a while back. It doesn't have a poster but just a picture frame. I was thinking something along this line but using a poster of course. in this scene, I was afraid of copyright and didn't have anything to stick on the wall so I just did a render and went with that.

Richard Haseltine

Well, there are two aspects to your question - size, in pixels, where I should think you could aim for something like 500 pixels on the long side and aspect ratio, width in relation to height, for which this site appears to offer a guide (though I don't know how definitive it is) http://www.standardpostersize.net/

Mistara

if you plan to sell your posters on zazzle or da for printing, they offer templates with pxl dimensions. and you'll need to take into account dpi spec, usually = 300.

whispers65

Thanks for the info. Right now, no plans to actually print anything. I was just trying to come up with something more creative to fill wall spaces. I'm always wanting to create something but never do so trying to pick easy stuff or I think is easy lol. Never thought about pixel sizes and all of that. I was just thinking "oh yeah easy...rectangle and picture". :)

Mistara

when i was a teenager my walls were completely covered in posters. but, there been no smart phones back then

whispers65

well one thing I wanted to do for practice with texturing, etc is to take a bedroom and do many different styles like 70's, 80's, Punk, Rock, 50's, Sci-Fi, whatever and was thinking of posters along this line to help give it whatever genre feel to it.

I always get so sidetracked though. I never seem to get anything done.

robkelk

I have a "lobby-card" for Errol Flynn's Robin Hood on my wall ... (goes and measures the poster) ... The dimensions are roughly 36cm × 24cm, so an aspect ration of 3:2 will look right.