Rocketeer World Fair Poster

Vincent V

Active Member

• Mar 15, 2016

• #1

I saw a thread on here a while back where folks were talking about the world's fair poster from The Rocketeer and it got me interested in reproducing the image in vector form so that I could get myself a high resolution poster made.

I finally started the project today, this is my progress so far in Adobe Illustrator.



I've still got a ways to go, but I think it's a good start for today. The fonts for "Rocketing into the future" and "New York world's fair" are not quite right yet.

 

Funky

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• Mar 15, 2016

• #2

I SO want one of these!

 

Mike J.

Master Member

• Mar 15, 2016

• #3

Here's a good example of the NYWF lettering.

 

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Vincent V

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• Mar 16, 2016

• #4

Made a little progress today. Started blocking out the second flying guy. Still have tons of detail to add all around.

 

Kylash

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• Mar 16, 2016

• #5

Love this!

 

maton

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• Mar 16, 2016

• #6

Looking good! The Rocketeer is one of my favourite films!

 

Vincent V

Active Member

• Mar 16, 2016

• #7

maton said:

Looking good! The Rocketeer is one of my favourite films!

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Same here. It's definitely a classic, and one of Disney's greatest live action films imo.

 

maton

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• Mar 16, 2016

• #8

Vincent V said:

Same here. It's definitely a classic, and one of Disney's greatest live action films imo.

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I agree! Costume, set, music, script, actors, all superb! Just an all round fun family Disney movie Plus it's got Jennifer Connelly in it! :love

 

Vincent V

Active Member

• Mar 21, 2016

• #9

Was out of town and unable to work on this for a few days, but now I'm back to work.

Little bit of progress today. Mostly tweaked the colors a bit and started blocking out the third flying guy. Got a few more big details to block out and then I'll start going over each object in the scene and adding fine details.

 

maton

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• Mar 21, 2016

• #10

Looks great!

 

Moviefreak

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• Mar 21, 2016

• #11

I was working on this but work has slowed due to my job. Glad to see someone is able to jump on it and get it rolling! :thumbsup

 

hdtheater

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• Mar 22, 2016

• #12

Looking forward to seeing the finished work.

 

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Streamlinedcat

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• May 15, 2017

• #13

Hi there,
I just joined to pursue this fabulous poster from the 1939 NYC World's Fair! The last post I see is from March of 2016. Did the recreated poster ever come to printing?

 

Ash

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• Jul 21, 2018

• #14

Following this thread. Totally interested in one of these.

 

PRCDMC

Active Member

• Nov 14, 2019

• #15

Any update on this? I would love a poster of this.