It’d be a decent cover if he’d just haul away the boring font and bad placement! Maybe place the words on the monitors in the picture and/or amongst the space debris being hauled?
Are those floaty rocks? I mean, if they’re traveling in space, with the other rocks/meteors/asteroids/debris, that’s one thing but this image makes them appear as though they are floating away from the rocks (not possible in the vacuum of space, I may add–and that makes me think, “er, no.”)
Overall, though, I agree with @Brad. Fix the font, move the byline that’s kerplunked between the navigation seats and it would be DRAMATICALLY better, even with the floaty rocks. That font ruins it (and the placement is bad, too).
I think that’s supposed to be a planet’s surface breaking up beneath the ship, though I’m not 100% certain about that. I am fairly certain the ship’s interior is rendered using the same cheap software people use to make those pseudohumans-tagged covers; which is not necessarily a bad thing in this case, however, as cheap rendering does tend to work better with inanimate objects. As you say, the problem with this cover is the captioning: the boring font and the poor placement of the title and byline.
Ian
2 years ago
This cover would almost be passable if the the text and text color were different. The key word being almost.
It’d be a decent cover if he’d just haul away the boring font and bad placement! Maybe place the words on the monitors in the picture and/or amongst the space debris being hauled?
Are those floaty rocks? I mean, if they’re traveling in space, with the other rocks/meteors/asteroids/debris, that’s one thing but this image makes them appear as though they are floating away from the rocks (not possible in the vacuum of space, I may add–and that makes me think, “er, no.”)
Overall, though, I agree with @Brad. Fix the font, move the byline that’s kerplunked between the navigation seats and it would be DRAMATICALLY better, even with the floaty rocks. That font ruins it (and the placement is bad, too).
I think that’s supposed to be a planet’s surface breaking up beneath the ship, though I’m not 100% certain about that. I am fairly certain the ship’s interior is rendered using the same cheap software people use to make those pseudohumans-tagged covers; which is not necessarily a bad thing in this case, however, as cheap rendering does tend to work better with inanimate objects. As you say, the problem with this cover is the captioning: the boring font and the poor placement of the title and byline.
This cover would almost be passable if the the text and text color were different. The key word being almost.