No Heroics: An Introduction
This is the first of three initial posts on No Heroics, a forthcoming ITV2 sitcom which I produced several pieces of artwork for earlier this year. Produced by Tiger Aspect productions, the six episode series airs from September 18th 2008. It stars Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley), Patrick Baladi (Neil from The Office), James Lance (Teachers, Saxondale etc), Claire Keelan (also Nathan Barley) and Rebekah Staton (Pulling, Doctor Who).
In terms of my involvement, there's quite a lot to go through, so I wanted to set the scene first.
Just before the end of 2007, I was contacted by Dick Lunn about possibly being involved with this new show about a group of British superheroes who spend a lot of the time in the pub, and aren't necessarily all that, er, heroic. It sounded like an interesting take on the Heroes format, injected with a healthy (or perhaps unhealthy, depending on how you look at it) dose of British cynicism. Dick was the art director on Hot Fuzz (his credits also include the IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh and Black Books), so I was hardly going to turn the opportunity down. Although I should say at this point that it's Jenny Bowers I need to thank, a colleague of Dick's on Hot Fuzz. She'd seen the poster I illustrated for Edgar Wright, and had recommended me for the show. Thanks Jenny!
In the first week of January, I then sat down with the creator and writer Drew Pearce, the art director Victoria Burnett, and Dick Lunn (who was took the reins as production and set designer for the show), at Tiger Aspect Productions in Soho. Casting was taking place at the time, with a lot of the main roles having been decided. It turned out that I was needed to help bring the set to life with some comic and superhero inspired artwork, and to produce other pieces of artwork which would appear directly in shot in a couple of episodes. It was clear that at the heart of the show was a real love for comics and the genre in particular, with plenty of relatively obscure references being thrown around. Having spent the last few years creating portraits in both personal work and commissions, this really was an ideal project for me. So from January through to April, I was working hard on several illustrations for the show. Which I'll start to show you in my next post...
In terms of my involvement, there's quite a lot to go through, so I wanted to set the scene first.
Just before the end of 2007, I was contacted by Dick Lunn about possibly being involved with this new show about a group of British superheroes who spend a lot of the time in the pub, and aren't necessarily all that, er, heroic. It sounded like an interesting take on the Heroes format, injected with a healthy (or perhaps unhealthy, depending on how you look at it) dose of British cynicism. Dick was the art director on Hot Fuzz (his credits also include the IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh and Black Books), so I was hardly going to turn the opportunity down. Although I should say at this point that it's Jenny Bowers I need to thank, a colleague of Dick's on Hot Fuzz. She'd seen the poster I illustrated for Edgar Wright, and had recommended me for the show. Thanks Jenny!
In the first week of January, I then sat down with the creator and writer Drew Pearce, the art director Victoria Burnett, and Dick Lunn (who was took the reins as production and set designer for the show), at Tiger Aspect Productions in Soho. Casting was taking place at the time, with a lot of the main roles having been decided. It turned out that I was needed to help bring the set to life with some comic and superhero inspired artwork, and to produce other pieces of artwork which would appear directly in shot in a couple of episodes. It was clear that at the heart of the show was a real love for comics and the genre in particular, with plenty of relatively obscure references being thrown around. Having spent the last few years creating portraits in both personal work and commissions, this really was an ideal project for me. So from January through to April, I was working hard on several illustrations for the show. Which I'll start to show you in my next post...
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