Skate Tag!

After an all nighter IT'S FINALLY DONE!

Skate Deck Design

With concept after concept, I finally came up with a finished design.

Final project for Sound

Here's the final Sound project me Dan and Brian did for Fred's class. All of the sound FX, and dialogue is my voice acting lmao. Enjoy

Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike Trailer Spoof

Skate Decks

I worked on some concepts for my skate deck. I'm probably going to do my logo for poison in my background.









The shrunken heads one was interesting I'm torn between it and my logo design. I'll think about it.

Box Construction & FINAL PRODUCT

I started with some concept sketches of what I wanted my box to look like. I did a couple test layouts to try and get an idea of where to put stuff and how to design my view window so you could see inside. I decided on adding it just on the front because I wanted the rest of the artwork to remain intact. The design was very simple but the process was pretty time consuming. After the sketches, I grabbed my tools and I went off on a box creating adventure.



Tools of the trade










All my cut up slices to each side. It was extremely hard to get the folds to work right so I had to resort to doing each side of the box individually or else I'd never finish.




I ended up slicing up a template just to test the overall integrity of the box and how it would look. It was kind of flimsy because of the board I used so I figured out another method to use for the inside. I didn't want the box to fall apart in people's hands. In order to give off the impression of an actual package I reinforced the inside with foam board and spray painted it to add to the grungy effect of the outside.



The foam board worked out pretty good and actually adds to the look from the inside. while giving some reinforced support since the toy itself has some weight to it and the amount of pressure being put on the box when it is grabbed and picked up.



Since my slices were ready to go I just glued them on and voila! Time to fold!









After touching up all the corners with some more glue this was the result of the folds on the front & side.






Back & other side









This was a logo I designed previously for my blog. Aconitum ("Poison" in Latin) So it took over for the skull and crossbones icon on certain products. I thought of the concept of making it into a different company name. Poison was related to sickness and sickness is contagious so BYAAAH new Toy corp.




Since my toy was a robot, I wanted to add something to the logo that would relate to it. A killer robot can't run without gears and machinery inside him. So I went into Photoshop did a few mirrors and cuts and I had a gear. Added some text and some blood and it was good to go.


From concept work to actually cutting out and building the box it took 8 hours. Adding to the overall time spent working on this project to a whopping 50 hours. That doesn't include the time taken to go buy supplies. The entire toy with the box costed me $42 for paints, tools and sculpey. Also another $10 for supplies and prints. I had a blasty blast with this thing and I am very happy with the way it turned out.

Toy Factory COMPLETE

It all started as a bunch of wire and goo. Now, it is the most amazing thing I've ever had the pleasure of creating.



Here's my 1/4 done pic of my toy. It's bones are coat hanger and wire, his organs TIN FOIL! On occasion I had to use a vice grip to hold certain parts firm as I sculpted the main parts.




Completed phase 1 raw before baking. I needed to do my bot in stages as to end up doing it properly without going too far away from my original concept sketches.



Look at his jet pack BLAST OFF!



Phase 1 bake. It took about 20 mins to harden properly. After it was done I let it cool for about 5 mins then continued on with phase 2: Detail Work.




Phase 2 Pre-bake, I added in the antenna detail, the jawline, shoulder pads, joints, and his big legs and feet.



It's coming along nicely, so far there has been few problems. The mohawk burnt a bit on the tip but not very much. I was still able to keep it together. Bake time: 15mins



I managed to use my left over can of Warhammer citadel primer. There was barely any left in the can but it was just enough to cover just about all the main parts to paint.



Me going nuts trying to cover the black undercoat with my dark red acrylic. I had to do 6 coats to get it to cover properly. 3 coats dark red, 3 coats my own blood from slitting my wrists. What a pain in the ass. The end result was well worth it.



Robot dude chilling HALF WAY THERE!





AND DONE
After 40 hours of conceptualizing, testing frames, sculpey tests, drilling the base, wrapping wire on the frame, connecting it all together, finishing the skeleton frame, applying the sculpey, refining it, adding detail, painting, inking, touching up and finalizing everything. IT'S FINALLY DONE! WOOOHOOOO! Now... The good stuff.



BE AFRAID *Robot sounds*



The head that comes off. The ink really brings out the detail. GREAT SUCCESS!



The front of my mohawk sporting badass robot dude. What a crazy mofo!



Back details, the jetpack has a little grill on the bottom to show that it is indeed a jetpack. It's either that or his lunchbox or a 24 case of Molson.



BEFORE-/////-AFTER

Wire, clamps and sore fingers OH MY!

Here it is folks. The first step to the finished product. I managed to complete my skeleton for my toy robot. OH HAPPY DAY.. errr.... morning lmao
I tried as hard as possible to follow my original concept sketch. It turned out alright. I got my hands on my dad's tool box and borrowed some wire cutters and snips for cutting pieces of wire coat hangers generously provided by Andrew. Special thanks haha. The 20 guage roll of wire I picked up worked fine. Really easy to work with. The Hanger was the hardest part, so freakn hard to bend, I had to use a Vicegrip and plyers to bend the bastards. Can't wait to start with the sculpey. More on that Tomorrow.




Now onto my Colour concepts. I fooled around with my original sketch in Illustrator and traced it out so it was easier to play around with the colours. I'm going to go with the dark red scheme. It reminds me of carnage which my robot WILL CAUSE! Muahaha!




I LIKE! GREAT SUCCESS!




Blue Killer Robot vedy naice

The SCULPEY is ROLLING

So yesterday I picked up a bunch of books from the caff. The concept books are absolutely amazing and they have a lot of good stuff in them.





On to present events.. Today I went on a little adventure to get some resources for my Toy project. I managed to get a few things at "A Buck Or Two". Some acrylic paint, brushes and a couple rolls of 20 guage wire to wrap around my armature. Then I went over to Currys to grab some more sculpey but they didn't have any more. At least I got my tool set. My grand total of time and money spent was 3 hours and 30 dollars. Plus some McDonald's and an MP3 Player filled with E.S. Posthumus, Lost Prophets, Hoobastank, NIN, Anberlin, Sevendust, Within Temptation, Tool and Kamelot ROCK ON

I also payed a visit to West 49 where I finally found a black pair of shoes. Fallen's logo is so freakn' COOL! They also had a whicked sale so I got a sweet ass sweater and a couple T's. There goes my paycheck HAHAHA





I'm all ready to go and so is my new Toy design. I thought this one would be more interesting. I have a lot of hopes for this one and I can't wait to finish it. More on my box later.. My concepts right now for it are crap.

NINJA PUB WORKSHOP

So I went ahead and did some concept work for a mag ad I had to create. Then it came to me to do an ad for the up and coming "Ninja Pub". I thought why not? So I did some ninja drawings of different logo ideas. After finishing with the mag, I talked to Andrew about the flyers and if I could contribute my logo to it. The following pictures showcase the results.

Enjoy





Concepts for shurken and head/mask








After discussing my ideas with Andrew we both came to an agreement of which design I should use. This was the result of the final Illustrator line art.











Took me just under a day to come up with concepts and finish the final product for Joe's class.

Andrew's design with my logo can be found HERE











Time for a break.
What can I say? I found the idea hilarious so I made my own rendition of it hahaha.

Concept work and other things

Here's the concept work for what I'm thinking of doing for my toy. It will tie in nice with my soon to be adopted domain name.

















Nightbringer drawing.









Close up




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Toys and My sculpey

I finally got a hold of some white board to stage some shooting areas for projects. So I took a few shots of my Cyber Violator. I only got one that turned out good enough to post.

I love the way the flash reflected off of the paint to give off a real metallic look. This thing is probably worth a fortune on Ebay and is quite the kick ass character.



I also went to work with some more sculpey just messing around and seeing what I could come up with on the fly. A couple gas masks, a tiny head, a mouse head and some funky looking skull character. More soon to come when I pick up a couple more boxes and a tool kit at Curry's.

Cheers

Warhammer FORTEEKAY

Here's some of my more recent work with Warhammer 40k. I still have to get started on my Dark Eldars and possibly head over to Heroes World for some games. Too bad my life is comprised of School -> work -> sleep. Ah well, in due time

Enjoy