I got a project a while back to make a flyer for the Sacramento Horror Film Festival. Specifically to promote their showing of REPO! The Genetic Opera. The movie is campy, but it has undeniable charms. Perhaps because I had to re-watch it fast forwarding and freezing to get the details of his helmet right it has rubbed off on me.
I did a very raw initial sketch for the project to get the basic layout and position of the three figures. I decided that I liked the idea of the Repo man in the front with two Genterns flanking him. That initial sketch is below to the left.
After the first round the client was happy so I did a refined sketch (that involved watching scenes from the film for around an hour to get the details of the costuming correct). Then for the second proof I put the refined sketch with the copy incorporated. After that proof I flipped the text around so the angle was reversed, because it pulled the eye into the composition better. Then it was off to photoshop to rasterize the vector illustration and add the texturing. It was a nice project and I’m pretty happy with the result.
I did get a message back from the client:
Hey, so i took your flyers down to LA for the fangoria convention and people LOVED THEM. I ran into Terrance Zdunich and Darren Bousman and they LOVED them too. Darren asked for one he liked it so much. People were using the flyer to get autographs from them. GREAT JOB! I’d like to work with you again on more REPO art and poster stuff. Great work!!!
Tim M.
