Subtitles of the Movie

So before we move on to the finished penciling stage, I wanted to go ahead and give you at least one more tour through the though process of breakdowns so that you had an idea of the process because it's very much just repetition from here on out. It's 22 pages of basically the same thing that we did on Page 1; however it's useful to see it in this particular context a little bit different because we have multiple panels to work with. So I'm going to go ahead now and zoom in a little so we can see these panels and you can see here that we have Panel 1, we have our two main characters and I didn't bother penciling much of the background because I'm either going to use Photo Reference or I'm going to use SketchUp to create this background; most likely SketchUp using Photo Reference. However, here we have our two figures and they are not currently referenced. Even though I have a sculpt for the head of this President guy, I didn't actually go ahead and pull that out yet because I just wanted to get a sense of the general proportions and placements in the panel as well as their general demeanor. So, you know, this guy's very calm and cool and collected. This guy is kind of a little bit put off and out of sorts and you know, we're more or less just getting some of the acting down right now. You know, here's the side of Scales' head and obviously for this we would want to go ahead and use that SketchUp helmet that we created for that. These two guys here, we don't really need any reference for, although we might need a little reference for the clothing and I'm going to get a SketchUp model here for the sniper rifle and the suitcase that the sniper rifle comes in and also I'll have used some of Rob's cityscape background here for this background here. I have some podiums that I got from the SketchUp Warehouse that I'll use for the podium here that has the microphones. You can kind of see the microphones coming at you and the agent here I can more or less fake. I might get a little bit of costume reference for him but nothing too imperative. And then here is that crowd panel so you can see our agent sort of walking through the crowd with his hands in his pocket in plain clothes and then you have a woman walking this way and you have a couple people hand in hand walking this way and then you have a person with two children walking this way and a whole bunch of extra people in the background. So I've already kind of figured out what's going on in this panel; a lot more detail than I had in the previous. But this bottom panel I didn't do anything with and the reason why, let me zoom out, is because I realized immediately that the perspective on that bottom panel is just dead wrong. The deep perspective of the background looks good but then it doesn't jive with this perspective of the back of Scales, which his very much standing straight up and down or only at a slight angle and these two things don't work together. So I decided that before we went any further with this panel, we needed to go ahead and have a SketchUp model. So Rob and I worked together and we created a SketchUp model that will work for this so let me show it to you and bear in mind that this panel is also going to be re-used as the first panel for Page 3, so it's very, very imperative that we get this one right. There's a lot of stuff going on and some of the stuff is just placeholders. We have our police vehicles, we have some blockades and we have some people going down a street and of course, you know, when you're drawing you can add a lot more people here. These are just more or less to give you a sense that, you know, something's going on here. Now, there's two scenes in this particular SketchUp file. There's the before limo arrives, which would be the end of Page 2 and then there's the limo arrives, which would be the beginning of Page 3 and you can see the limo up here along with a new police car and whole crowd of people doing their thing and of course we would have a lot more people in this particular panel. I just have these props in here, or Rob put these props in here as placeholders so that we know what's going on. Now, of course, this being a 3D model in SketchUp means that we have the full ability to go in here and rotate the camera and do whatever we need to do to get the perfect shot here. But you can see now that we, since I have a Scales that I had sculpted in ZBrush and brought into SketchUp and then I went ahead and stuffed the helmet on top, I'm able to get absolutely accurate perspective of where he would be in space relative to all of these objects and this is very, very useful. It's one of those things that's not something that you want to put a lot of work into but because, like I said, we're going to see this exact same thing twice, it becomes very reasonable in my opinion to do it this way. You wouldn't want to do this on every panel because it would just take way too long to get your book out but for something that you're going to see twice or three times or four times and a great example of an artist who uses that effect very, very efficiently is Travis Charest. He does that great and if you're not familiar with his work, I highly recommend that you check it out. It's Travis C-h-a-r-e-s-t. Unfortunately not as well-known as he deserves to be. Now, that said, that would be our basic SketchUp process here for creating our reference for that bottom panel of Page 2 and the beginning of Page 3 but we also need to go and get reference so we have Photo Reference here and SketchUp models that I downloaded that are relevant to this particular page. So I've got a bunch of photos and you can see here I downloaded the bunch of photos and I got the most recent President, which is President Obama at this time and I've got him coming out of his limo and I've got him waving to crowds and a bunch of different shots and speaking at podiums. This is going to useful reference throughout the entirety of the book so I really felt like it was worth the time to go and download these and I just did a Google Image search and tried to find whatever it was that I was looking for and get important, useful information about things like where would the microphones be when the person is speaking, you know, where would the flags be if the person's speaking, you know, the door and the agent who holds the door, what do the agents generally look like, what are their clothing look like, you know, that kind of stuff. Very important to have this kind of reference. Very, very important in my opinion but I also downloaded a bunch of SketchUp models from the Warehouse and I have them divided. I have several limos that you can look at and you can decide if any of these work for you. I have some presidential files and this would be things like the podium and stuff like that and then I have some rooftop stuff. So like for instance, the two agents are sitting on top of air-conditioning unit. Well, I've got a bunch of different air-conditioning units that you can choose from here and of course you can get this stuff for yourself very easily by going onto the Warehouse and doing a search for any of these objects. The Warehouse is a fantastic resource and my only thing that I would say about the Warehouse is if you're going to use someone else's model, which is a-ok, there's nothing wrong with doing that, make sure that you give them credit and also make sure that when you do your own models, that you upload them to the Warehouse so that other people will have the opportunity to use your work as well in their projects because after all, this is a very sort of open-source kind of community in the sense that no one is really locking their stuff down and making you pay for it, which is a great resource for us starving artist types. And once you've done that, now you would go back to Page 2 and you would begin to refine those sketches and begin to work in the backgrounds and all that kind of stuff. So that's the thought process of your breakdowns.