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John Swanson.

75 covers. One shelf.

OvaniSound sells music and sound-effect packs for game developers and creators. Every pack needs a cover that sells a sound you can't hear yet. Since 2025 I've designed more than 75 of them across 32+ genres, from pirate and chiptune to Japanese and comedy — 2D cover art, 3D box renders and the illustrated side-panels that make the store read as a collection.

Client
OvaniSound
Role
Product cover design, 3D renders, packaging art
Delivered
75+ product covers · 3D box renders · Side-panel illustration · Volume stickers
Discipline
Design · Product Covers · 3D
Five OvaniSound music pack boxes rendered in 3D — Ambient, Dark Fantasy, Ambient Fantasy, Horror and Spooky

01 / The brief

Sell a sound with a picture.

A music pack is invisible until someone presses play. On a store page the cover does all the selling, and it sits in a grid next to every other pack in the catalog. Each one has to name its genre in a glance and still look like part of the same family.

  • Genre at a glance

    Funk, Horror, Ambient, Epic. Each cover has to say its sound before the title is read. (What even is “funk” as a picture? A time, a sound, a lifestyle — all of it.)

  • A catalog, not a one-off

    Series run past volume 13. New covers fit a series theme — graffiti for Hip Hop, duo-tone side-panels for every Vol. 3 — without repeating the last one.

  • Moving off AI

    Earlier covers leaned on AI imagery. The catalog moved away from it, so covers were rebuilt as real art: licensed stock, compositing and hand-painted light.

  • Release-day pace

    At the peak, 30 distinct covers had to ship in a single week — each one finished, rendered and store-ready.

02 / The approach

The cover sells. The side-panel tells.

Every box has two jobs. The front stops the scroll; the side rewards the people who look closer.

  1. 01

    One scene that reads small

    The front is the hook: a single strong image that still works as a thumbnail in a store grid.

  2. 02

    A side-panel that builds the world

    The spine is a second piece of art. Ambient Fantasy's stacks ice caves, a lakeside, a sword, a dragon and a knight under the German castle on the front.

  3. 03

    Composite, then paint

    Most covers start as several licensed images. I blend them, paint in light, outline details and add reflections until they read as one scene — like the fisherman added to the Casual Vol. 8 mountain lake.

  4. 04

    Render it as a product

    Each cover is wrapped onto a 3D box so the store shows something that feels physical, not a flat square. 2D volume stickers cover drops and promos.

03 / The work

Side-panels from three packs. The covers on the shelf at the top of the home page are the real ones — pick any to read how it was made.

Ambient Fantasy side-panel: ice caves, a lakeside, a sword, clouds, a dragon and a knight in a field
Ambient Fantasy — the first cover to pitch a detailed side-panel.
Hip Hop Vol. 4 side-panel: the Statue of Liberty, a graffiti crown, glyphs and a teddy bear
Hip Hop Vol. 4 — New York, the graffiti crown and a nod to Graduation.
Spooky side-panel: dancing skeletons, a Jack-o'-lantern in a witch hat and a cat with a broom
Spooky — the brief came back “more goofy”. So, ghosts in sunglasses.
OvaniSound 2D volume stickers beside 3D renders of the Analog Gear, Ambient and Ambient Fantasy boxes
2D volume stickers and 3D box renders, side by side.

04 / The result

A store that reads like a collection.

Every box is different, and every box is clearly Ovani. The covers hold together across genres and volumes, the side-panels give fans something to collect, and the catalog no longer depends on AI imagery.

  • 75+

    product covers across 32+ genres

  • 30

    distinct covers shipped in a single week

  • 2D+3D

    cover art, box renders and stickers for every pack

See the covers in the Ovani store Next case studyTeen registration campaign

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