Mesa Valley

Vehicle design and street level gang culture. The city had to read as a place with two authorities running it. One official, one not.

The patrol unit had to be recognisable in silhouette, at night, under sodium light, because that is the condition it turns up in for most of the story.

Colour does the identifying work before any mark appears. Red on bare concrete, worn as the same three garments across the whole crew.

Same process as the Code Blue characters. Leonardo for fast exploration under image guidance from my own reference and sketches, then painted over and photobashed by hand in Photoshop for the final plate.

Code Blue is an original crime drama I direct: character design, faction identity and every department badge across three law enforcement bodies.