No Heroics: Stickers
This is the third 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).
While we were working on the illustrations and designs for the set, another ongoing priority was to create a set of stickers for use in one of the episodes, ie to actually be focused on by the camera. Without giving the story away, the idea is that within this world, kids can buy stickers of the heroes, much as they would with footballers or Naruto or whatever is hot right now. So as well as illustrating a couple of the actors for said stickers, I also had a list of cleared names that I could work from. In the end I created twelve stickers for the episode, and I've showcased a few of them below. In addition, I also designed the format for the stickers, which are really more like trading/top trump cards I suppose, and the Fanini logo. Excelsor's card was given a foil finish, much to The Hotness' chagrin...
It was cool to be handed a bunch of them when I visited the set at Ealing studios, and the playground memories of 'got...got...need...need' came flooding back. Although I have to say that the only sticker book I ever finished was for the Transformers cartoon series - my Mexico '86 collection remains sorely lacking to this day...
Oh yes - thanks to Alex Amelines for Detonator's pose! That's all for now on the show, but I have more artwork to reveal over the next few weeks once the show is aired...
While we were working on the illustrations and designs for the set, another ongoing priority was to create a set of stickers for use in one of the episodes, ie to actually be focused on by the camera. Without giving the story away, the idea is that within this world, kids can buy stickers of the heroes, much as they would with footballers or Naruto or whatever is hot right now. So as well as illustrating a couple of the actors for said stickers, I also had a list of cleared names that I could work from. In the end I created twelve stickers for the episode, and I've showcased a few of them below. In addition, I also designed the format for the stickers, which are really more like trading/top trump cards I suppose, and the Fanini logo. Excelsor's card was given a foil finish, much to The Hotness' chagrin...
It was cool to be handed a bunch of them when I visited the set at Ealing studios, and the playground memories of 'got...got...need...need' came flooding back. Although I have to say that the only sticker book I ever finished was for the Transformers cartoon series - my Mexico '86 collection remains sorely lacking to this day...
Oh yes - thanks to Alex Amelines for Detonator's pose! That's all for now on the show, but I have more artwork to reveal over the next few weeks once the show is aired...
posted by Sam G at 11:12 AM
2 Comments:
Looks quality Sam! Can't wait for the series to start and to see your work on the box.
Best wishes
Phil
how cool to be able to work together on this series, you lucky bastard!
Great designs btw
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