Soundtrack Jewel Case Inlay

[AtomicGreymon]

Having purchased the physical copy of the soundtrack a couple weeks ago, I found myself wanting to put the actual disc in a real jewel case, in the interest of longevity both for the cardboard packaging, booklet and disc itself. Since the booklet is the exact size of a regular front jewel case insert, I'm simply using that (though it's a shame it doesn't have the title, etc.

I decided to create my own insert for the back of the jewel case and spines, just to complete the package. And now that I'm finished it, I thought I'd post it here in case anybody else also prefers a real jewel case and wanted to use it.

I based it off the back of the cardboard case as far as the placement of lettering, etc. goes. Since Disney flashed the BNL logo after the movie itself, I thought a BNL Records logo would be appropriate for the soundtrack, lol. I decided to go with one of my favourite images of WALL•E for the background image; fortunately I found an extremely high resolution version of it. Since I was working off the Canadian version of the CD, it has that bit about Toronto and Universal Music Canada in the legal section... I have no clue if the American copy has the same or different text.

The original is a BMP, but in the interest of bandwidth I'm posting it as a JPEG. I've inserted it as in image in both Neato Mediaface and Acoustica CD/DVD Labeller, and the spines match up pretty nicely. I imagine it could also just be printed on blank paper, though personally I prefer using the speciality paper with perferations/etc.

Enjoy.

[vanessajoyce]

Wow . . . this is fantastic! Thank you so much!

[bkim]

Wait. Are you saying that is not a professional version of the soundtrack inlay? You're pulling my leg, right?

[AtomicGreymon]

Sept 10, 2008 23:17:11 GMT -5 bkim said:

Wait. Are you saying that is not a professional version of the soundtrack inlay? You're pulling my leg, right?

Well it's based on the cardboard packaging, like I said; but I did that one up in Photoshop. I wanted one that matched the colour/style of the booklet that comes in the cardboard package, which is what I'm using for the front insert of the jewel case.

The background art is the nicest of the posters for the movie, I always thought. For anyone interested in such things, I used the following fonts:

Galaxe-E (credit to David Occhino for creating this great font).
Waltograph for anything in that Disney-style.
Wide Latin for the 'Records' text of the Disney Records logo (not a perfect match, but close enough).
Charlamagne Std Bold for Pixar's logo (which is what they use themselves).
Franklin Gothic Heavy Italic for the 'Records' text in the BNL records logo.
CombiNumerals Pro for the CD-Audio logo, and Recycle Symbol (there are many free fonts with these symbols, though... I'd purchased this one for another purpose, but since it was laying around decided to use the symbols part of it for this).

For the main text of the track list, and everything else I used various styles of Hypatia Sans Pro from Adobe... not exactly futuristic, but a very elegant font and I think the end result looked pretty nice. Unfortunately it's not available at retail yet... I got it as a free bonus when I registered by Adobe CS3 Master Collection. The Italic style of the font isn't ready yet, and I think they're holding off releasing it fully until that's done. (obviously there is an italic used on the inly, for the "performed by" parts under certain tracks; I used Photoshop's "faux italics" feature to slant the light weight of the font).

I scoured my fonts folder, but I couldn't find one particularly close to the font for the track listing on the cardboard packaging.

I believe Australia's soundtrack realease is in a real jewel case, but I've only seen a picture of the front over on Pixar Planet (it's basically the front of our booklet, just with the title/etc.). I'm not sure what the back looks like.

Thanks, though. That's quite a compliment ;D. I hope Disney would be allright with my work, as well.

[smkndofpnutdssrt]

Wow! That's so well done! Great job!

[dementor]

I bought WALL-E soundtrack today, it's in WHITE cardboard (but I saw pictures of another color everywhere!). I'm going to put it into jewel case and use your nice inlay!

[MidgardDragon]

White cardboard? That's weird. Mine's in the brown cardboard. It might not last as long, but I think it's quite neat and fitting with the movie's look and theme.

[dementor]

Yes, I was surprised by its white color too. But is's official CD undoubtedly, that shop simply cannot sell illegal CDs.
And it's made from recycled paper, too.
Maybe Russian Edition? ;D But there are no any words in Russian on cardboard...

[AtomicGreymon]

The white version is in the UK, as well, I think. It's on Amazon as an import:

www.amazon.com/Wall-E-OST/dp/B0019TH53G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1221252564&sr=1-1