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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Superheroes group caricatures for AXA

Client from Paris, France. The brief:-
"Hello
I found your website, and hope that you might be able to help me in sourcing a team gift.


I am looking to get a A3 size colour print of a team of people (10 people) in super-hero style positions (or something similar). I can supply photos of all these people, and some words to appear within the picture (project names etc). I would need 10 copies of the same print...


Thanks for the very fast response. I would need the printouts (in Singapore) for Friday July 29th, which I realise now is very short notice. Is it possible? Does it become easier if we choose a different style? Between my first email and now, I did a re-count and realised I have 14 people that I need to squeeze into the picture.....


I would need it for Friday evening. We have a team of 14 people that are disbanding and I'd like to get the same print for all 14 of them. We would have one guy in the middle, and the others would be around him. We thought super-hero's would be the easiest way to portray them, as its also quite flattering. I could supply you with photos of all of them separately....


I'm currently collating all the photographs of the people for you. The team is an AXA team so we'd like blue, red and white as the theme colours (our corporate colours), and the logo to appear somewhere discretely. Final number change now - its up to 15 people.....


For the superhero poses, we'd like something generic, no need to make one of the superman, and another batman etc. Something like a large group of invincibles, if thats easy! The team acronym is JAP, and if that would work on the front of their costumes, then great. If not, we'll find another way to weave it in....


Reason for Request: Our strategy team in Asia, called the 'Japan and Asia Pacific Regional Team', or JAP team for short, is disbanding. Up to now the team was based in Singapore and some members are moving to HK with AXA whereas others will leave the group. We wanted a picture of all team members, past and present, to share with them. We thought super-heroes might be a good idea, because of the intellectual stregth of the team and how they managed difficult projects to help AXA grow. However, its not a case of good vs evil, just strength.


People involved:
The centre of the picture should be Alex Kimura. He should be centre of the picture and a little bigger than the others, but not dramactically so (ie, not double size), as we don't want to undermine the importance of the other team members. The other people should be scattered in the picture in various action shots (flying, jumping etc). Our AXA colours are red and blue (please see attached file for the exact shades) so it would be nice to incorporate those in the costumes worn by the team members.
Preferred costume colour would be blue with the red 'switch' logo on the front....


I'd like to see faces and body, and put the AXA logo somewhere, along with the team name 'Japan Asia-Pacific Regional Team'....."

Group superheroes caricatures for AXA - pencil sketch
Pencil sketch....

Group superheroes caricatures for AXA - pen and brush outline
Inking in....

Group superheroes caricatures for AXA - colour in progress
Colouring....

Superheroes group caricatures for AXA
Completed, with caption added in digitally.

Group superheroes caricatures for AXA - printouts
The original A2 size artwork + 15 printouts + softcopy on cd.

Client's feedback:-
"Fabulous, thanks Jit! And thank you for helping me do all this over email, much appreciated! I can't wait to see the final product! My boss is bringing two of them back to Paris in a few weeks!!....WOW! It looks amazing! Everyone is going to be so thrilled! Thank you!"

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