The making of the Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel poster

Day One. Saturday

Closed show of the unfinished copy of the movie (no CGI and no titles).

Day two. Sunday

First sketches, raking through ideas.

Days three and four. Monday and Tuesday

Choosing promising concepts.

Day five. Wednesday

Presenting five drafts to the customer.

The bottom version got okayed. Making the arrangements for photo shoot on Saturday.

Day six. Thursday

Buying the photo props.

Day seven. Friday

Setting up the lights.

Preliminary pictures of the characters.

Placed an order for a background explosion picture with two illustrators.

The first artist.

It won't work, looks too much like an oil drilling oopsie.

The second artist.

This one goes to production.

Drawing letters for the title.

Studying WWII posters for original typefaces.

Making different alternatives.

Modernizing our text by modifying letters “Л” and “Д”.

Looking for the slogan face, searching the posters again.

First sketch.

Improving it.

Day eight. Saturday

Shooting photos.

Picture perfect Stalin.

Makeup artists comments.

Day Nine. Sunday

Busy with the photo.

Day ten. Monday

After 150 more corrections we are ready to send the file to the customer.