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Interesting link: check out Drew Struzan's portfolio website

The guy who painted pretty much every Lucasfilm movie poster you can summon from memory in your head, Drew Struzan, has a wonderfully comprehensive personal website where you can browse his collection of illustrations. I've linked you there to his portfolio of movie poster art specifically.

Looking at this stuff, it's wild how well I can remember some of these images - how quickly I can summon them from memory, in particularly the stuff from Lucas - and how many absolute stinkers he illustrated posters for, too. There are some movies here that are so bad I have never even heard of them before.

This is what the career of a working artist looks like! Sometimes you gotta get paid working on a disaster. I think a lot of games workers will find something to recognize in Struzan's wild swinging between all-time historic film imagery and... this poster for one of the worst movies ever made, apparently. And his craft is evident even on the shit he did for shit that sucks.

Real Shoemaker Mindset. A lot of my friends and I have discussed this elusive mindset over the last few years. How do we keep ourselves going when we're not completely and totally proud of the stuff we've been assigned to do? Find joy in the craft, I hope.

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