Salgood Sam's Blog, page 5

Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2

Shortly after moving to Montreal in late ’97 I joined the crew at CinéGroupe on Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2 – the sequel to a film that i had really enjoyed as a kid.

It was exciting to be on board at first, and I worked on the film for about four months as a senior designer doing locations and props mainly.

I worked under Director . He seemed cool, but the production was disorganized, mismanaged and literally generally under equipped.

The first day on the job I discovered they had no desk ready for me, paper or pencils. So, I was sent home for a few days. When I returned the next week they had managed to scrounge together some equipment for me to use.

Paper and pencils were still in short supply for some time though, so it was a good thing we had lots of erasers.

No really, that’s not a joke. But we made the best of it. Also for a floor with three productions on it, we had just one photocopier. That was fun.

The film did get done. But for my full time on the crew, there were a lot of production management problems. For me in the end the line producer quit, and then the director quit on the same day over the mounting disorder.

I left shortly after, I was never credited on the film for my work, but they ended up using my designs for the pit nearly for verbatim, some of the shots look a lot like different angles I drew on it.

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Most the rest I did I think ended up scraped when the new director took over. Here’s some of the highlights of the work I did on the job that I saved. Just a fraction of it really, but they were my favourite bits.

Despite the awful train wreck of a film that was made, and the comically badly managed production I witnessed, I’m pretty proud of this stuff, and would love the chance to do something like it again on a decent production.

Early on we were all asked to take a stab at designing the main character too, who was based on Julie Strain.

They didn’t use it but this set starts off with my take on her too. Fun. Course, not nearly enough skin compared to what they went with, but oh well.

Illustration

A sampling of my best colour artwork.

I enjoy

the narrative & symbolic,

the challenge of creating iconic

timeless images for my own stories,

and in the service of my clients.

Including malleable bespoke

line and stylization for

each project.

I work in B&W as well.

Contact me about rates anytime!

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Illustration – Colour

This is a sampling of some of my best colour artwork.

I do some work with mixed media, typically watercolors and pencil crayons.

But most of my colour art is done in B&W wash, and then digitally

coloured to make it easier to render, edit and refine.

I’m generally available for freelance illustration work!

Contact me about rates anytime!

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Ink & Line

This is a sampling of some of my best line work.

I do work in colour but I really love B&W line art! Or with simple tones and tints. A graphic aesthetic, limited tinting or wash but all about the INK & LINES. I love to adapt and morph my rendering style to the aesthetics of a given idea.

That’s something in the case of contract work that can be developed to suit the project. I tried to encompass the range of my past work in this sample, and assure you it’s all me, and i’m open to all kinds of projects.

Contact me about rates anytime!

Illustration – Line

This is a sampling of some of my best line work.

I do work in full color but I really love B&W line art, often with tones but very limited use of colour.

Any colour here is either just those of the media, or a simple shifting of the tints of those.

I’m generally available for freelance illustration work! Contact me about rates anytime!

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A Bastards Tale | Memory

A personal memoir told in short anecdotal, somewhat poetic form. Something that started as me thinking about doing a book about my father, but evolved into a short story series that really is more my memories than his biography. This first story introduces me, and my family.

A Bastards Tale | Key

The third story in the A Bastards Tale series. For me, this is a story about how my father introduced me to the idea of just how huge the universe, and turned me onto science as a kid. It shapes a lot about who I’ve become, that night under the stars. And yep, he really did take me on his bike when I was small, strapped to his stomach with a long leather belt. Later I sat behind him. But i think he got that I found it frightening sometimes, and far more often we took one of his cars.

We Became Someone

A story based on the song “I Invented Someone” by Spearmint. Its an experiment, each of the first four pages introduces a couple, and the last resolves their relationships.

The rise and fall of it all

Elliot falls between the cracks and discovers a different pace of life on the streets of Chicago. The rise and fall of it all was a collaboration with composer and filmmaker John O’Brien.

Pin City

A experiment in style, and a fragment for a Sci-fi fantasy project i’ve been toying with. I might return to it if I can find the time one day. For now, this is Joseph Cotton! A dishwashing doodler in a strange life.