Dir. Paul Verhoven. Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith
Planning for the first design (as it will for all of them) starts with a long old trawl for suitable reference images of characters and iconic moments from the film. Drawing Robocop over and over again has given me the abloty to eventually quicky knock up scamps without the aid of the reference photos. I spent a good couple of hours finding as many as possible in as many different positions ask could - i'm not a concept artist, and drawing accurate anatomy is really not my strong suit, so if I'll be cutting and pasting body parts for a bunch of different images to make one body, in a pose that is roughly what i'm aiming for. I can then sketch that and modify it from there.So even though I'm drawing from reference, I'm drawing from compositions that I've made from scratch, so i don't see it as copying.
Small section of reference images i sourced.
Out of all the reference imagery i collected, i managed to whittle it down to just a few elements that i wanted to include - more often than not film, posters usually feature the main character, with the supporting cast, relevant vehicles,creatures, buildings etc.. in the background in various positions. I don't want to follow that formula quite so much, and am looking to keep the layout quite minimal and un- cluttered.
Example of my own simple cut & paste mocks.
From this point it was just matter of producing lots of sketches until i came up with a composition i felt worked. I will be adding the film title in the same (or very similar) typeface as used for the actual films opening credits, and will be aiming to apply the same layout across all three of the posters - so that they all have a connection to each other and they work as a set of designs. A headache i'm currently having is about how 'illustrated' i should make them - as my sketches have had good feedback, and although i don't want to lose that feel to them, at the same time i feel they look too w.i.p. Also, as the film is set in the future and is based around technology, so cleaning up the linework to give it a more clinical,digital tone may be more suitable.
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