Twisted ToyFare Theatre: Behind the Scenes Week 3

July 23, 2008 on 6:12 pm | In Twisted ToyFare | 2 Comments

Continuing our regular series peeking behind the scenes of TTT, here are the storyboards for The Rambo Connection part one, the first strip storyboarded by me, Jon Gutierrez, unfortunately.

I say unfortunately, because…well, look at them! I’m profoundly embarrased by them now and I have to say I’ve gotten much better at drawing these (and drawing in general) since this strip, even though it was only a couple months back. That’s right, keep reading this blog and you will witness my people slowly look more and more like…um, people. (Although I’m not sure why Arnold suddenly looks like Guile in part 2, but it seemed to work. You’d think I would’ve done Van Damm that way, though.)

This strip really went through more changes than any other TTT I can think of. The original idea was one, six-page strip with the Manly Men of Action recruiting the new action heroes – only to get wimpy actors like David Schwimmer. It went through a bunch of rewrites and reworkings before we got to the Segal conflict. If you look closely at the storyboards, you’ll see a bunch of panels that are darker or off-angle to the rest. We changed the script around so I had to draw some new panels and if I had to move some, I just photocopied them and taped them to the page. (I’m lazy!)

Consequently, we also lost a LOT of jokes along the way. My most missed one was the MMA gathering around after their meeting to watch the new action film they found “There will be blood,” which they found horribly dissapointing.

Well, until next month – please don’t judge me on these drawings!

-Posted by Jon