The Aftermath~

YAY

FINAL SKATE DECK YOOOO

So here is my super final spectacular awesome skatedeck design.

Total time it took to complete is probably around 5 hours. This however, is excluding the board mounting, because I don't have neither the board or the print yet.

Annnnnd here's a slideshow of some process.

slow updater. :(

theres alot of stuff that i gotta rescan and what not. bear with me.

Enter the matrix...NOT. Welcome to our Microscopic Metropolis!

I really haven't been updating this thing for awhile now. But here it is, the long awaited toy sculpture!

BTW. I didn't have a handy camera with me, so you're going to have to deal with my shitty webcam. Sorry. ;(

Name: Flamber

Age: 99 days

Life Span: Unknown

Gender: Male

Diet: Fear

Abilities: Night Vision, flight.

Background Story:

As terrifying as it looks, Flambers are actually really friendly and helpful. They feed on fear, so their prey will become fearless, per-say. Despite the night vision they are gifted with, Flambers can't see very well during the day. Therefore they spend most of their daytime sleeping, waiting for the night to begin. Because of the way they look, Flambers are usually stuck with a bad rep, however, one species managed to see through that. That species is called Bunerg, and something very unique happens when these two cross paths.

When the Flamber latches onto the back of the Bunerg to feed, it releases a special liquid that helps the Flamber's wings complete. However, the liquid happens to be very sticky, so the only thing Flamber can do is take flight, along with Dremut. Now this isn't at all a bad thing, because out there lurks a fearsome beast, the Goblanator. The Bunerg are equipped with large legs, powerful enough to jump to incredible heights, which in turn the Flamber sprout ridiculously long wings from their back and enable both of them to fly to safety.

The Goblanator is the top predator around, solo Flambers don't stand a chance. But when attached to a Bunerg, they make a phenomenal team, and an epic escape. In fact, because they work so well together, they usually become awesome friends at the end.

Process:

Here's pretty much everything I did. The wiring was a PAIN...

And at the end one of the spikes from the hair broke off. :(

Practice makes perfect?

Haven't posted in awhile, mainly cause I've been bumming around way too much lately. The latest thing I've done worth posting are some sketches I did of my shoe and ipod. I know I stink at drawing, but heh, practice makes perfect:

As for my shoe, we were supposed to subtract parts of the object, so I drew half my shoe? ./creativity fail! :

Mascot on Steroids

For New Media tools we were practicing with the pen tool in Illustrator, and grasping the concept of tracing stuff out.

Our assignment was to choose either a team logo from the NHL or NBA or NBL or NFL.

I chose the Florida Panthers (mainly cause it looked way badass):

I haz play fetch?

I took two different approaches for this assignment. It was annoying to figure out what part to trace first. I tried to tell myself to get the bodies of yellowish fur first, but then that led to me being annoyed at how much time is being wasted. So I went with tracing a huge black outline of the beast:

Second layer was the fur:

White fur:

... and finally the details:

I chose this because it looked challenging enough.

And I'm not gonna lie, it was. Well it was really time consuming and it had me debating against sharp corners or curvy corners... I didn't know which would look better. I guess you could say this is my like, rough? I really want to make it better, but only if I find the time to. You gotta deal with this for now!

Edit: Curious about how long it took to complete this? After starting over twice, I would say it took about 3.5 hours. Breaking it down to about an hour for each layer. I don't know if that's bad or good...

SUPER NEW EDIT! :

Spent a little more time on it, fixing a few things here and there and adding a bit more detail...

These colors look better

RESIZED Adventure

Found a way to quickly resize all of these photos using photoshop.