Degree Show Trailer

After the fall of the Kelpie, I took on some work for the degree show trailer that a classmate is working on. He needed a background and since I no longer had a film taking up all my time and some concept art to fill up, I thought what the heck. The film has a sort of comic film-noir feel, so I looked into that sort of thing and came up with a few bits and bobs before doing the background.

When it comes to drawing mobsters, is there anything more fun than fedora's under streetlights and tommy guns?

So I started drawing the city pretty straight up-and-downy and it was pretty damn boring. 

Tried to make the buildings squinty, but that still wasn't looking all that great, so I checked out the comic 'Spy vs Spy' that Calum referenced in the script, and was inspired to do a faded skyline, and to make the horizon extremely squint.

spy vs spy... in case you didn't guess...

some skyline style tests.

Spot the Godfather reference ;)

The final background, (complete with degree show film references) with a texture overlay, gradient, and colour corrected to more sepia tones, rather than straight up black and white.