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fifty custom fonts that I have designed over the course of my career. These resources helped a lot with the clearance department—because I designed the fonts myself, we were able to avoid the typeface copyright issues that studios are now so overly intent on honoring. I was lucky to be able to use Monstro's character illustration, done by Aaron McBride, on the cover. The papers were then aged with an "old paper" layer in Photoshop to show that they had endured rain, heat and dirt. I added to this scripted item some additional "disaster" tabloids. Some were conceived as more professional-looking regional papers, others as hand-drawn local papers. I will add here that in preproduction, I had no Italian translator. I tried my best with Google Translate and marked each graphic with a note that said it had not been translated by a professional. This is not an approach I would accept during live-action filming; it causes too many problems, since Google doesn't offer the idiosyncrasies and colloquialisms of an actual language. I hope I won't be judged too harshly if there are mistakes in these pages. I am counting on Disney to double-check everything. The second assignment for the wall were the two different wanted posters. One showed the dastardly duo of Honest John and Gideon, some of the first villains that the young impressionable Pinocchio meets. The other shows the coachman, who takes Pinocchio to Pleasure Island. Even though the film takes place in Italy, the filmmakers wanted a classic Wild West poster style that was a "quick read" A. A NEWSPAPER PLASTERED TO THE WALL IN THE OPENING SEQUENCE WHERE JIMINY CRICKET INTRODUCES US TO THE TOWN OF COLLODI, FEATURING MONSTRO, A GIANT WHALE-LIKE SEA CREATURE WHICH IS REEKING HAVOC IN THE SEASIDE TOWN. B. WANTED POSTER FOR CHARACTERS THAT PINOCCHIO MEETS IN THIS ADVENTURE 'ON THE ROAD.' A B