Apollo 13

[BTTFSpencer]

I've got a few paper prop projects going on (say that 5 times fast) but this is one I have been meaning to get onto...

The Apollo 13 Time Magazine.

I believe what I'll have to do to create this is to buy an original magazine, scan it, produce replica artwork of Tom Hanks and add it over the photo of Lovell using Photoshop. I'll have to go in and touch certain things up and blend over certain details, and then add some filters over that to match the screen used.

Perhaps the artist who worked on the film traced the original Time Magazine artwork. That could well explain why certain details are slightly different or blended over...

If anyone could provide some shots from the movie of this, I'd be much obliged as I've got the Blu Ray... not the dvd. I have no way of making screenies.

Anyone else interested in having this prop?

 

[batfan10]

My brother would love this!! Cant find the magazine anywhere

I also have the bluray. Shame screencapping them is so hard!

 

[BTTFSpencer]

I'm thinking your brother may be in luck soon.

I've bought a copy of the actual magazine. I shall start work on this project shortly and when I'm done, I can't see why I shouldn't offer up free downloads so that everybody can have one.

 

[Rymo]

Here you go. Grabbed this from the blu-ray.

 

[Rymo]

Double post. Sorry.

 

[BTTFSpencer]

Rymo, thank you very much! That is really excellent reference. It'll help out tremendously.

Are there any closer zooms in the film?

If I were able to get a really good closeup... it might make short work of the rendering of Anders, Borman and "Lovell". :lol

 

[BTTFSpencer]

The artwork of the astronauts was obviously traced and redone from the original Time magazine, it wasn't a simple cut and paste workup.

So... I'm thinking I could either cut and paste a really good Blu Ray screenshot on my new graphic and clean it up some, or if it comes to that... totally replicate the artwork (I really hope not, lol.)

If anyone out there is an expert on Photoshop, please chime in with your suggestions.

 

[Rymo]

Rymo, thank you very much! That is really excellent reference. It'll help out tremendously.

Are there any closer zooms in the film?

If I were able to get a really good closeup... it might make short work of the rendering of Anders, Borman and "Lovell". :lol

As far as I can see, that's the closest shot there is of the magazine cover.

 

[batfan10]

I have some photoshop skills . For everyone besides Tom Hanks, you could probly get away with changing contrast and colors. Might have to redraw hanks though?

 

[BTTFSpencer]

Rymo - Thank you very much for your help, Sir. I'll work with what you've posted.

Batfan10 - From my research I've found that the other two astronauts were probably traced and it was done as an all-new artwork, to keep the styles consistent. So I think I'm going to be working with this HD screengrab for the artwork. I'm not sure how I'd redraw it, I don't have the experience yet to do so anyway. I'll do mah best.

The cover will be an all-new item using the dimensions of the original Time magazine, and I'll do my absolute best to match all of the fonts and details as accurately as possible.

 

[BTTFSpencer]

Progress on the zine'.



I'm by no means an expert. I'm just playing around until I get something that looks "ok"... the resources for this project are really limited, but at least we'll have something.

If anyone here has any suggestions, hit me up.

 

[DD28]

I've had a go at cleaning this up as much as possible, it's a combination of the original Time cover and the screen shot from the movie.



Not perfect by any means.

Peter

 

[BTTFSpencer]

That is rockin! I love what you've done there, it looks really nice. You've done a great job of combining screenshots and the original artwork. By my observations it seems the 2 heads were traced and re-rendered, and the Hanks one added next to.

I'm trying to actually use the artwork of the heads from the screenshot so I can keep it accurate to what they did in the film. I'm like... awful at this, but I'm giving it a go. Firsts for everything.

 

[jedimaster]

Sweet guy's. would love one of these when its done.

 

[DD28]

That is rockin! I love what you've done there, it looks really nice. You've done a great job of combining screenshots and the original artwork. By my observations it seems the 2 heads were traced and re-rendered, and the Hanks one added next to.

I'm trying to actually use the artwork of the heads from the screenshot so I can keep it accurate to what they did in the film. I'm like... awful at this, but I'm giving it a go. Firsts for everything.

Thanks, like I said it's far from perfect, I would have used the screen shot but the resolution isn't good enough, good luck with yours, it's looking great so far, keep going.

Peter

 

[BTTFSpencer]

How'd you make it? Did you trace the Tom Hanks head and make your own? If so, wow. :O That's really impressive.

 

[BTTFSpencer]

Did a test print, had to.. had to.



I'm gonna need a bigger printer, and some photoshop skills. And photoshop. I modded the screen capture over DD28's graphic and made some little tweaks. I just wanted to see something, I'll make my own entire magazine for either download, or maybe even a run, using my original magazine as a resource to measure from.

 

[DD28]

How'd you make it? Did you trace the Tom Hanks head and make your own? If so, wow. :O That's really impressive.

Photoshop. I found the largest version of the cover I could online, then straightened the screen capture to match. Then simply added a layer mask over the screen capture version so that only Hanks head was visible. I had to clone out some of the Original Jim Lovell picture (he's got a bigger head than Hanks ). Added a couple of adjustment layers to try to match the colours and then added the date and price text as they were too blurred.

I then ran it though Lightroom to smooth out some of the Noise and JPG artifacts.

If anyone is interested I have attached a lo-res version of the PSD file (my original is over 14mb so I couldn't attach it).

Peter

 

[BTTFSpencer]

Awesome, thank you for explaining. It's great to learn from the masters.

I have a feeling there are going to be several versions of this magazine by the time I'm done. After this one I might move onto the Fred Haise ID badge, if someone hasn't already beaten me to it by then.

 

[PaperPropShop]

Almost 12 years later and I came across this after deciding I wanted to shop something similar up for Howard to sign. Great work OP! Super cool piece of film ephemera. Would you go about this any differently now?