To get the ball Rolling I, Andrew Millist the writer and pre-production guru of the Saturate team have churned out some early impressions of what the characters and environments and the overall visual theme of the film will look like. I wanted to make a really contemporary, graphical urban style, one that incorporates the recent 80's fashion color scheme with some new school graffiti styles. I wanted it to be as though we were looking into the future from an 80's perspective.

To give a more unique visual presence to the characters I also wanted to incorporate some more defined graffiti weighting to their boddies and still retain some simple conventions with regard to how their look reflected their character.



So this here is just a quick lighting paint up to establish the mood. We're going for something dramatic. The city is also a first draft of the look we're going for, but in revision we're after something much more looming.

Here's the first draft of the graffiti spirit. He's sort of the hero of the story but represents something within the artist (Kido) that must overpower the opposition. I want him to have be created from various graffiti elements as though he is literally the embodiment of freestyle art.

The Cop. He's bad, machine like and ruthless. There isn't room in this guys ideals for creative expression outside the realm of the institutions by which he is governed and upholds. In revision, this guy isn't going to have any actual eyes, but so far we're happy with his weight impression.

Kido, he's the main character, an impressionable, curious and slightly cautious young man, with the desire to express his creative side. He's not directly rebellious but he see the need for color in his world and can't stand idly by, even if it means going against the grain. But is his will creative will strong enough to overcome the institutionalized preconditions which it must stand against? This is the first draft of him. We decided to review it as he looked a bit bland.

This is the re-vamped version of kido. I took the intiative of throwing some more sneaker fetish into the mix (I LOVE SNEAKERS...just a hint there) and I thought that really emphasised the contemporary nature of the visual theme and also tied it in well with the 80's overtones. Lot's more fidly bits added to add interest and general kickassness that will leave kids tugging on momies skirt to buy stuff like he's wearing :p