Monday, June 24, 2013

Cool Art: 'Pacific Rim' by Grzegorz Domaradzki (aka Gabz)

Odd City Entertainment has announced an official partnership with Warner Bros Pictures and Legendary Pictures to produce limited edition screen prints for Guillermo del Toro's upcoming 'Pacific Rim'. The first print in the series is by Grzegorz Domaradzki (aka Gabz).

The prints are 24" x 36” in different flavours; a regular edition with 6 colours with 2 metallic inks in a run of 225 copies, and a variant edition in 6 colours with 3 metallic inks in a run of 80 copies. There's also a metal print of the regular print in a limited edition of 55 copies.

The prints will be available at Odd City's store, and will be released randomly beginning on Tuesday, July 2nd and lasting through Thursday, July 11th until the film's release. Follow @OddCityNews on twitter for further updates about future releases in the 'Pacific Rim' series.

Check out the official press release and the awesome posters by Gabz below.
Odd City Entertainment is excited to announce, in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, a series of limited edition screen prints from varying talented artists (Gabz, Todd Slater, NE, Gordon Jones and Graham Erwin) all inspired by Oscar® nominated director Guillermo del Toro’s EPIC new movie, Pacific Rim. When looking for artists to approach this soon to be classic sci-fi flick, Odd City Founder, Roman Morales, quickly zeroed in on the perfect lot that could bring the director’s vision to screen printed glory. Gabz, a world-renowned Polish artist, will be the first in this series to release his print upon unsuspecting Fanboys and Fangirls across the globe. Gabz expressed his enthusiasm about working on this project, “This is actually the first time I had an opportunity to work on something this big, so I was both excited and slightly overwhelmed at the beginning. Until now, I had worked on movies with plenty of references to be found on the Internet. In this case, I was mainly limited to the first teaser trailer that came out (pretty mind blowing by the way). I focused on Gipsy Danger, but instead of putting him in some type of massive sea battle, which was quite tempting, I proposed something inspired by World War 2 propaganda posters; something where the giant robot symbolizes the last stand of humanity. To better show the scale of the threat, I added a glimpse of the giant Kaiju hidden in the skyline. I’m pleased with the outcome and particularly with my version of the poster title, clearly inspired by Japanese apocalyptic cinema posters.” Roman, who worked closely with Gabz and the studios in this creative process, also commented on his beautiful work of art, “From the moment we discussed this project, Gabz was a part of it. He had already done a piece for us that we had yet to release and working with him was so easy. He had the ability to see the big picture, no pun intended. From just a single teaser, he was able to capture the spirit of a film that was already stirring all of our film geek sensibilities. I couldn’t see this series without him.”
Regular Edition
Variant Edition
Metal Edition

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