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Movie poster as artwork?
mccall:
I also have little to no artistic ability and I thought about going the poster route until I could get dedicated artwork I was happy with. I thought it would be a low cost option for a few months. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything I liked or would work well as an overlay.
The smaller posters need to be in landscape orientation (ie. longer than high) so that ruled a lot of them out. The other posters I looked at (full size and oversized) didn't "fit in" as an overlay, like snaaake said. What was left were generic psychadelic posters or surreal images like fractal sets. After a weekend of looking I decided it wasn't such a good idea.
paigeoliver:
My first Mame cabinet had a cutout from a movie poster as the marquee. I forgot what movie it was, but the marquee ended up being an extreme closeup of this girl's eyes (Winona Ryder I think). Main reason I used it was that it was printed on both sides, so it backlit well.