Evaluation: Dvd Case

This the evaluation of my dvd case:

What went wrong:
The biggest regret that I have is that I didn't create the background myself. I found few tutorials about making a space background in photoshop but at the end I haven't used any of them.

Another thing is that I haven't looked at many dvd cases before making main. Most of the dvd cases look alike in a way that they all have barcode, age rating and stuff like that. If I would look at some of the dvd cases out there I would know what to include, where to include etc.

The last thing is that I haven't came up with any name for the game. I decide to just go with "Mass Effect" which is not very original.

What went well:

I am happy with the front side of the case. At the beginning I planned to have Shepard's face and the title above but it look really empty. At the last moment I decided to edit it and I added to other characters: Grunt and Thane behind shepard. That gave the whole side a lot more details and depth.

I'm really have with the title that I created in photoshop with help of youtube tutorial. It'the magma styled-text that took me a while to create. I decided to use it not only because it looked cool but because the magma texture looks a lot like the destroyed planets that are used on the original mass effect cases.

What would I do differently:

The first thing that I would differently is making the background myself. I think that even if it looked worse than the background I used it would still be better than using already-made background.

Secondly I would make sure that all of my transitions are accurate. With some of the objects I didn't do a good job. For example Shepard's part of the head is slightly cut off.

Lastly I would looked into more techniques and effect that we haven't covered in the lesson. That would give me extra marks and made my case look much better.