What About Blog?

I actually hesitated to post a comment to another designer's blog tonight for fear that he would, in turn, look at my blog, and see only Sippy Kitty and a handful of dated sketches from way back Winter Quarter. Hence, some work from Spring Quarter.

I know I said I loved L.A, but if I'm being perfectly honest here, New York makes L.A. look like a stupid little strip mall in the desert. Presently looking into the possibility of legally marrying Brooklyn. It's a stretch I know. Enjoying my time here as much as possible, as the design scene isn't exactly "up my alley". It saddens me to leave, knowing there's just not an NY career here for me.

Explaining these pieces - The first 5 pics are of what I eventually came to for my Cadillac studio. I'm not exactly thrilled with the design so much as I am thrilled with how boss those top 3 renderings look, but this is what happens when you make drastic decisions in the modeling process with less than a month to go.

The bottom 2 pieces are of an Alfa Romeo door panel I just thought was kinda hot, and sustainable BMW fashion, featured on 2 ridiculous models with no material thickness or restraint in the physical vulgarity department.

I'd write the obligatory "expect more work soon" thing down here, but I don't want to jinx it. Looking forward to seeing my Cincinnati folk September 1st - unless my attempts to become something retarded like an ice cream truck driver or a life coach work out- in which case I will be staying in New York forever.

Sippy Kitty

Above: Our manufacturing and processes class is finally something other than a joke with no punchline. Our last task was to design a simple product using the plastic processes we'd just learned - a task that resulted in this : Sippy Kitty, a low-cost canteen and water purifier for children in the third world. I'd like to say it turned out "cute" but "slightly menacing" seems more appropriate.

Nothing Productive

Loving Los Angeles - sketching my ass off at Hot Wheels. Unfortunately, can't share any of that until 2010, when those 1:64 nuggets of happiness hit WalMart shelves, and I'm forced to actually acknowledge that WalMart exists again.

Gotten hardcore into biking - and my super-nice, super-gorgeous bikini model roommate (I'm not making this stuff up) just GAVE me a $1,000 Dawes road bike in an effort to spite an ex-boyfriend who'd left it behind. Sure it's made in China, but it's a Veyron compared to the $200 Schwinn I've been flogging. Getting to the point: If I'm not working, I'm biking - unless of course it rains...

These post-apocalyptic prestige cars are the result of said meteoroligical event. Call it Death Race 3000, call it Mad Max - call it whatever. I had fun with it.

Will be posting some more work soon - hopefully. Need to redesign my Cadillac - badly.

Cadillac Project: Final Critique

Cadillac Project is finally done for this quarter (we'll be modeling these guys in the Spring when we get back from co-op)  Just want to thank everyone in studio and out here on the interwebs for your feedback, advice, and encouragement.

Concept Paintings

This is Terry.  His interests include watching Bravo, cuddling up with a good romantic novel on a cold rainy day, and bludgeoning unsuspecting victims with his enormous mace.
This is Jennifer.  She enjoys long walks on the beach,  hates mean people, and spends most of her time hunting and devouring innocent campers somewhere outside the Catskills.
This is Craig.  When this sensitive fellow isn't pursuing his career in musical theatre or going door-to-door for UNICEF, he enjoys assuming his role as the destroyer of worlds.  

Concept-LT: A few missing pieces

The most cliche movie poster ever - It serves as a caricature of my target market for the Cadillac project - an assassin, a transporter, and a bond villain.
The existing Cadillac logo from '99 didn't really fit my concept too well, so I developed a new one - combining existing Art & Science brand language with a lot of heritage elements, very much like the car itself.
Major sketch developments - a collection of project milestones from my weekly sketching.

Sail Cars!

When we eventually run out of gas - given the recent drop in petrol pricing has brought back all manner of bad habits - we will need billowy sails to pan our gas guzzlers across the scenery - Hence the sketch page.  Final renderings should find their way to the blog some time next week.

The Blueprints

Above:  An early iteration of the Cadillac Concept-LT interior.  I'm building this guy in Alias to assure that my interior design will fit my vehicle package.
As the quarter is wrapping up, so is my Cadillac project.  Above is the package drawing for what, save for a few cosmetic changes, is my final design.

2021 VW Vanagon

For this Descom assignment, we were asked to ideate on and render a 7 passenger family mover.  I decided to resurrect an old favorite - the VW Vanagon.

Descom - Rock Climbers

Final Rendering in Photoshop
Alias underlay - hadn't done one of these in a while
Ideation Sketches
A couple extra view of my 3d-modeled buck

Cadillac Project - More Sketch Pages

Another round of sketches on the Cadillac project. I'm still all over the map, but I feel there's at least a unifying aesthetic that's starting to emerge.

Cadillac Project - Sketch Pages

These are a few sketch pages from this week. It's a new sketch technique for me, so there's clearly a lot of room for improvement, but I'm really enjoying the process. The exterior direction is starting to take on a Gears of War feel - a sort of Art Nouveau meets the post-apocalyptic future. The detail is a little extraneous at this point, but I'm trying to allude to engineering and technology underneath that's beyond our present understanding. The Cadillac project is fast becoming an entertainment design project for me, which I'm hoping will be accompanied by some sweet character and environmental design before the quarter is out.

Descom Corrections For Midterm

A few re-touches of previously posted work for my descom midterm. The most dramatic change is the Dacia Sandero Transformer - he benefits from an hour of extra detail work (in place of alluded form) that I think really sells him. I'm considering leaking him to Autoblog in the form of a Transformers 2 sculpt sheet. Just kidding - my former supervisors from Hasbro would hunt me down and devour my soul.