I thought some folks might be interested (if anybody's even interested in these covers) to see how I've put the keyart together. In cases like this, I usually work much bigger than the final size, just so I have some room to move elements around without worrying about them getting cut off the edge of the canvas.
I did something similar for my Jennifer's Body, Transformers, and G.I. Joe covers, and I think it also helps to focus on just making a good piece of keyart, as opposed to worrying how it will work in the context of the final cover.
One other is advantage is it comes in very handy when doing a DVD-to-Blu-ray conversion. I generally just crop the same height as the DVD, but take a little bit more of the width to fill the BD proportions. Saves a lot of time sliding crap around to make it fit the BD dimensions.
Not sure why I gave myself so much room at the top on both of these Community keyarts, but whatever...
I hope this might give others an idea of an alternative workflow than always having to work within the cover template files, which I've sometimes found to be a bit restrictive.
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Honk if you find this remotely interesting!
