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Posted By: Jotaro Kujo

The art of a hero
Artist is an integral part of show's success story

March 16, 2007
By George Haas
Most comic book artists would be happy to have several hundred thousand fans eyeing their work each month.

Tim Sale gets upwards of 14 million people checking out his illustrations - every week - on the hit NBC show "HEROES," which centers on a group of ordinary people with amazing abilities.

'HEROES'
When: 8 p.m. Mondays

Network: NBC

Sale's dynamic artwork is an essential part of the show (which returns with new episodes at 8 p.m. April 23 on NBC). His often giant-sized paintings are stand-ins for the work of Isaac Mendez, a painter and junkie (played by Santiago Cabrera) whose precognitive powers enable him to "paint" the future.

Sale also created the "9th Wonders" comic book that character Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) uses as a road map. Hiro, who has the power to teleport himself through time, obtained the comic from the future and follows the book's plot religiously.

Both the paintings and the comic help link the series' diverse characters, while teasing viewers with images of things to come, such as a nuclear blast in New York and a scene in which Hiro is shown fending off a dinosaur with a samurai sword.

The 50-year-old Sale is used to creating fantastic images.

His collected works include myriad superhero comics, including "Superman," "Spider-Man," "Daredevil" and "Catwoman." A "Batman" graphic novel he produced was the inspiration for the recent "Batman Begins" movie.

But nothing has been quite as fantastic, or as unexpected, as the success of "HEROES," which was the highest-rated new drama of the fall season.

"No one saw this coming," Sale said recently in a phone call from his art studio in southern California.

Sale said he was originally hired to draw a few illustrations to go along with a script creator Tim Kring was pitching to NBC.

Kring was friends with Jeph Loeb, a writer and producer whose credits include "Smallville" and "LOST." He serves as executive producer on "HEROES."

Loeb had also partnered with Sale for a number of comics and graphic novels and recommended the artist for the job, which was to create a handful of character drawings and action scenes.

"The character of Isaac was in there, but I don't think anybody, including Tim, quite expected the art to be as integral a part of the plot as it's become," Sale said.

For instance, one of the key elements of this fall's "save the cheerleader, save the world" story arc was a dramatic painting of a frightened high school cheerleader being chased by a shadowy figure.

What's really amazing is that Sale doesn't actually paint.

"I'm color blind," he said. "I can't paint."...

In further evidence of NBC’s efforts to use video sharing sites to promote is traditional network programming, the media mammoth is teaming with online company VMix to air clips of “Heroes,” “30 Rock,” “My Name is Earl,” “Scrubs” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” on a dedicated Web site “channel.” NBC also signed a pact Wednesday with Break.com to produce an original online TV series.

The deal is the second such arrangement in recent weeks as NBC cut a promotional deal with Google-owned YouTube, which is currently amidst a $1 billion-plus lawsuit by Viacom Inc. for copyright infringement.

Content owners see Internet video and video sharing sites like VMix as a valuable means to promote its prime-time programming. However, as the Viacom case demonstrates, they are very reluctant to let site subscribers view their TV shows and movies without compensation.

NBC Universal took its efforts one step further by inking the Break.com deal. Break.com is a video site for men.

This represents the first time Break.com has joined with a major entertainment company to bring professionally produced content to its audience of 16 million unique monthly visitors. The ad-supported series offers brands an opportunity to sponsor original digital material that reaches a large audience of 15- to 35-year-old men.

The working title of the program is "Breakers," and it will feature beautiful women finding creative ways to break different objects. The series is set to launch in the second quarter of this year.

"This is a realization of our vision of combining the best in original user-generated content with top professionally produced material to create the most compelling entertainment experience for our audience," said Keith Richman, CEO of Break.com.

The availability of content through so many outlets also raises the stakes in the digital right management (DRM) game as content owners struggle to build strategies for protecting their video assets in an environment where they may be viewed multiple times in multiple formats.

“If you are going to have multiformat video for use on laptops/desktops, TVs, and portable devices, you may need to store multiple formats and deliver only the one that’s appropriate,” explained Tom Nolle, president of CIMI Corp.


Spending on DRM software and hardware to protect entertainment, commercial software, and other information will exceed $9 billion dollars over the next five years, says a new market research report from Insight Research Corp.


By the close of 2007, total worldwide spending on DRM will reach just over $1 billion, and by 2012 business spending is forecasted to grow to nearly $1.9 billion, according to the new research study.

Unlike some of its competitors, VMix is interested in more than just video clips. The firm inked a pact with Tribune’s interactive unit in January where it will provide tools the media giant’s dozens of Web sites including ones operated by the Los Angeles Times and Newsday