Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget

Feature - visual development - Aardman Animations

My involvement with Chicken Run 2 began back in 2015, when I painted a series of pitch posters used to help present the film to financing studios.
In the first movie they escaped, this time, they break in! I painted these images from line sketches by Richard Williams, Dave Vinicombe, and Peter Lord.

PITCH PAINTINGS:

POSTER:

Eight years later, in 2023, I returned to the project to collaborate with director Sam Fell on a specialty poster created for the film’s premiere and signing sessions:

Drawing inspiration from 1970s film posters, I explored a range of compositional directions before refining and locking in the final image: