Laserschwert

Having worked on and off on this, the tracklist has now grown considerably, reaching almost an hour of music. Fun thing I've noticed: The LucasArts logo uses the same theme heard in "Nobody Makes Fun Of My Hair".

Just scrolling down Twitter, Facebook or Google News spits out so much already.

Either way, how the hell can I avoid spoilers for another year? The freshly leaked photos already revealed more about (probably) the opening of the movie than I want to know.

Oh man, you're right - I forgot about the distribution rights. Which also means, no Paramount logo transition at the start of the movie. Just as much a loss as no Fox fanfare in front of the SW sequels (if those films had any importance).

Still, I can't bring myself to buy the UHD set just yet. There's GOT to be a proper boxset after Indy 5.

Crystal Skull was color-timed to death, so it'll be easy to make 5 look better. Edit: It looks like the UHD release of KOTCS "fixed" the weird color timing: https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison.php?id=14725

Oh, nice logo-less version of the artwork. Any chance for a scan? Or which issue of which magazine it's from?

Funny... it was bought by the same collector who has provided me with a bunch of scans (including the MI2 back cover). So, it's in good hands.

The first 30 minutes of the movie were absolutely fine. It goes downwards as soon as they leave for South America.

Another big problem I had with it was the sheer size of the ensemble. Having Indy on his own or at least with just one sidekick, makes everything feel much more dangerous. But if a group of four can make it through all the perils and traps, it probably wasn't too dangerous. And what the hell was the purpose of that crazy jungle cutter vehicle? Judging by Raiders' desert chase or Crusade's tank sequence, this thing would have been the perfect main element for an action sequence. Like Indy fighting bad guys on top of it, throwing them into the blades?

I've also added two three pieces of Purcell's cover concept art to the thread:

Merely an oversight on my part. I'll add them to the drive soon.

I've added the new version of the "LeChuck's Revenge" artwork (based on @kiddomanteca's amazing scans) to the thread, replacing all the other versions (which are still available on the GoogleDrive though). The bump in quality is massive. Just check out these comparisons of the new scan with my old v1 and v2 versions: For painting out the logos and extending the edges, I again resorted to training my own AI model, which in turn tried to apply the style and detail of the new scan to my (textless) v2. I then used this to paint out all the unwanted parts, keeping as much of the new scan as possible.

Yes, stay tuned:

My big hope is still that Skunkape will be able to remaster this like S&M once Devil's Playhouse is wrapped. (With the positive side-effect of ToMI getting a Switch release).

With some artwork provided by yours truly (at least for the physical release).

Thanks to the AMAZING contribution by @kiddomanteca we now have a high quality scan of the MI2 poster from "The One" magazine. This is by far the highest quality version we have of the artwork (brush strokes and canvas texture included), and after cleaning it up, I'll try to use some AI trickery to add the missing parts to this scan to create a textless version of it as well. Behold this incredible beauty:

Posters are difficult to scan. The best way would be to have me scan it. Would you be interested in selling the poster, or lending it to me for scanning?

Not yet, unfortunately... that one hasn't been cleared yet.

On a side note, I've acquired a bunch of new scans from more "exotic" releases of MI1, which would potentially allow me to extend my current MI1 poster a bit on all sides. I haven't done more than this little inventory check though:

A little request for those of you who own any of the two-part big boxes with marbled borders (like SoMI, MM, Indy, etc.) AND have a way to do proper 600dpi scans: Do the lower parts of the boxes (so not the lid, but the bottom part) have the marbled patterns on their sides without logos or text? Those might provide great sources to recreate the borders (with much more "meat" around them than the fronts of the lids). Edit: Little update, I got a source who is going to scan these from his collection, so we'll see what I can do with those.

Ah, damn it.

Here's a look at the original pencil layer of the painting, both before and after upscaling: For upscaling I used the ESRGAN model I've trained on posters by Drew Struzan, so the pencil work is interpreted based on his style. But I'd say it appears very faithful to what can be seen in the low resolution scan of Tiller's Ahern's original drawing, even if the detail is just created artificially. If the original background paintings were built the same way as the cover, they could probably be upscaled the same way as this (plus they'd still be at full color depth without dithering). If only those Photoshop files still existed somewhere...

I finally got around to update the CoMI posters using some of my better upscaling methods, which keeps much more of Bill Tiller's Larry Ahern's original pencil detail. The links are updated in the opening post. A few comparisons:

Scans are always helpful, thanks a lot! I already have a few scans, but it's never enough. I also have high-res versions of the original promo photos used for the covers of both the adventure and the action game, but everything else I'll have to take from the boxes. So please, go ahead and scan away! As always, 600dpi, no filtering, please. By the way, the problem with this "poster" is that the logo placement forces the inclusion of the marbled border. Until now, I've shied away from including the borders - and apart from Fate of Atlantis (which came with its own, artwork-appropriate frame) none of the other artworks "required" their respective frame to work. However, lately I've grown more fond of those marbled patterns, so ultimately I'd like to add versions of all the posters with their frames intact. Easier said than done though, as those frames on the edges of the boxes are hard to scan. By the way, your name reads familiar, but I can't remember where I've read it before.