BioShock Posters - Angel Barcelona's Portfolio

BioShock Poster Series

Objective

In this project, I was tasked to design and develop a series of 3 posters that represent two design movements and one custom movement of my own. The first two posters should highlight the characteristics of the art movement of my choice and include colour, typography, symbols, and other graphical element that fit the theme.

Programs: Illustrator, Photoshop, and Procreate

Sketches

When I was looking to start the project, I dug around for inspiration. I looked through images of different art movements, steampunk, and Bioshock. I planned out and made a creative brief and mood board based on these inspirations. My intent was for these to give me the direction my project would be going in. I also did some comprehensive research on different types of art movements. Once I had my research, I narrowed down the choices for which art movements I wanted to focus on. The ones I chose were: Art Deco and Art Nouveau. After this, I did some sketches for the format I wanted to make using Procreate. I struggled on what the poses the characters would be and what the format of the posters would be since I wanted viewers to clearly know this is a poster series.

Big Daddy poster sketch with corner borders and the game title

Big Daddy poster sketch with a ray of light in the background and the game title at the bottom

Big Daddy poster sketch with a quote from the game at the bottom in a banner and the game title below the banner

Little Sister Poster Sketch with water and sun in the background inspired by art Nouveau

Rapture poster sketch with the game title at the top and the name of the city at the bottom along with a quote below, showing a polaroid style poster

Digital Renditions

Once I was happy with my sketches, I then made digital renditions of my poster ideas in Illustrator.

Big Daddy Poster: I used a lot of patterns and rigid geometry, along with the simplified version of the character, "big daddy" from the game.
Little Sisters Poster: the main subject matter, the little sisters, is inspired by Art Nouveau as we emphasis on the female form, asymmetrical layout, and choose a hand drawn type design.
Rapture City Poster: I choose to just have a simpler with a mix of some parts of Art Deco in the final design.

Big Daddy digital rendition with corner at the top and rectangular border around the whole poster. Having the character's name at the bottom center and it's silhouette looming over the city

Big Daddy digital rendition with a rectangular border around the whole poster. Having the character's name at the bottom center and it's silhouette looming over the city

Litter Sister digital rendition with black vines surrounding the little girl in the middle with the name of the character at the bottom and a floral type border

Litter Sister digital rendition with green vines surrounding the little girl in the middle with the name of the character at the bottom and a floral type border

Rapture digital rendition with the game name at the top, city name at the bottom and a quote underneath while the city is the center point of the poster

Rapture digital rendition with using a floral border around the city and keeping city name at the bottom and a quote underneath while the city is the center point of the poster

Rapture digital rendition with a rope like border, city name at the bottom and a quote underneath while the city is the center point of the poster

Rapture digital rendition, keeping the polaroid style but using a different font for the name of the city that's the same width as the poster to fill the white space

Mockup

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