IMDB Top 250 Barcode...

[Messy]

Ok so I went onto IMDb and downloaded all 250 movie posters from their 'Top 250' chart.

I resized them all and compressed their width (luckily found a script for that!) and then manually pieced them together next to each other, in order as shown on IMDb's chart.

Colours were blended and it was made a little more pretty!

Took 2hrs 45mins.

Hope you like!

 

[Hermes Monster]

Very cool

 

[Messy]

Very cool

Thanks

Thinking of getting it put onto a Canvas, would be a good talking point!

 

[OffsetZ33]

Thats pretty cool - nice work.

Be curious to see the non-color blended version also...

 

[Messy]

Thats pretty cool - nice work.

Be curious to see the non-color blended version also...

Low res version for you.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

Low res version for you.

Hmmm...can you upload just a small piece of this version at full res? I'd like to see what it looks like up close. It feels like it has more texture than the blended one, looks like more of a chunky paint quality. And it is more "authentic." Regardless, cool idea and good execution.

 

[ezekielrage_99]

That is kinda cool, you should submit it to Interfacelift as wallpaper because I know of plenty of people who would download it.

 

[stainlessliquid]

I think the unblurred one looks way better

 

[decksnap]

I've seen this done before, just trying to remember where... or maybe it's a whole genre I don't know about. Cool visual though. Blurring it takes almost all interest out of it for me.

 

[Coheebuzz]

My vote goes for the un-blurred one too...

The blurred one honestly doesn't do anything for me and you lose the original concept, whereas i would totally hang the original on my wall at a ridiculous size so you can 'explore' it's content.

 

[Messy]

Interesting, thanks for the comments, i'll consider uploading the full unblurred version soon.

 

[lucidmedia]

I am amazed you did this by hand and didn't write a script to automate it!

I run a course where I teach graphic designers to code, and this type of project is usually one of my introductory assignments. Pulling images from an API and then finding interesting ways to organize it visually - by time, by color, etc...

your project reminded me of moviebarcode: they are doing a similar thing comparing movies together:

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

and all of these are influenced by the ideas from Brendan Dawes Cinema Redux project, done in 2004 and now in the permanent collection at the MOMA.

http://www.brendandawes.com/project/cinema-redux/