Next Alias Project

Will be following this tutorial

PhotoView 360 Render

Test render in PhotoView 360.

I Still Hate you Alias

I don't like Alias, Alias doesn't like me.... none the less, not knowing Alias is not an option and I'm tired of it always pooping on my design parade. I resent being in a situation where I am forced to adjust my design intent due to an inability create accurate geometry... so commence Alias tutorial overload.

Helmet Tutorial here

Vivre

Rally Fighter Reebok 3/4 Render

Finally had some free time to finish up this 3/4 render in the "Legend" colorway.

Rally Fighter Colorways

Reebok Zigtech Rally Fighter

My entry to the Reebok Local Motors Contest.

More Local Motors Reebok Sketching

Just uploaded it to the Local Motors Checkups Wall

Footwear

Local Motors Reebok Warm Ups

Obligatory Earbud Sketches

Recent Work

Car Sketch

Get Loose

Sedan Proportion Practice

VW e-GO 2.0

War n' Peace

Almost Done

I'm getting close to finally wrapping up my speaker project, it's taken me a lot longer than I expected, mainly because it's spent most of the time in various forms of incompleteness sitting on my work bench neglected.

The construction process was pretty straight forward, made my clay version, sliced it up, transfered the forms to wood and rebuilt it all.

First mistake I made was trying to cut corners and use a Dremel, which was a complete waste of time and ended up taking more time than a good rasp would have.

Once everything was test fitted I ended up deciding to go for a darker stain, which required me using General's Java Gel stain, which works pretty well when trying to stain a light wood to look like a dark wood. Unlike a oil based stain the gel stain works more like a paint and sits on the surface. Having gone through the process it would have been a lot better to just start with a darker variety.

For the varnish I used Rockhard Table Top Varnish from Behlen's. The finish isn't perfect yet, will probably redo it since there is quite a bit of swirl right now.

Playing with Lightroom

Couple of Pictures from my NYC trip that I have played around with using Lightroom. All pictures where taken with a $90 Canon point and shoot in auto mode.

I'm increasingly interested by the possibilities that a DSLR or Micro 4/3rds camera could provide.

Power Tool Racing Video

Short video of the power tool races from a couple weeks back. Thanks to Kyle Koch for putting it together.