Blogwithfeet: The art/rant blog of Renee Lott

Ohtori movie poster

I took a class called Computer Art during my senior year in high school where basically all we did was learn little things about Adobe programs and screwed around with the huge computer tablets in the lab. It was pretty fun and not really that complicated a class. For one of our assignments, we had to make a movie poster, so I got permission to make a parody poster:

My idea was basically to combine ideas from the Utena anime and Rushmore to spoof the Rushmore movie poster. I thought the two movies had interesting parallels — the elite academy, fighting over a woman, an “out-there” sort of freespirited “revolutionary” — so I thought it would be a pretty fun idea.

The date on the bottom of the image says that it was finished in 2002 (my senior year), but I had drawn the artwork for the poster earlier than that and prepared some other parts of the image previously. An old friend of mine had even helped make the logo (I don’t really understand the perspective warper thing in Photoshop…). Getting the class assignment was a good excuse for me to actually finish this old personal project of mine. I’m pretty pleased with the results, but I do see some flubs here and there. I think if you’re familiar with both Utena and Rushmore you might get a kick out of this, so here ya go.

Thanks for looking, and check back on Monday for more Festering Romance art!