Lunch time colour study

This is how I'm imagining the final render will will presented, backlit with industrial sparks casting edge light onto the mech, surface illumination with red internal lights and flares from the mounted spot lights.... Modeling next!

Next mech cooking away!

Apologies for the lack of updates, been super busy on the new (gratuitous name-check alert!)  Bond movie, so starting to stay late to get this next one rolling... First stop, Photoshop

Great White Chase!

Hi everyone! Been a while since I posted anything due to work commitments but thanks to many late nights I've finished another machine!

I saw this amazing footage of a simple underwater camera being attacked by a great white so I wanted to create a drone sub that would attract sharks but rather than passively get bitten it would speed off whilst keeping them close enough for some awesome predatory shark footage, so I designed something that housed twin impellers, an underwater HD camera and various sensory GPS equipment - to boil it down, I wanted to create visuals of a cool sub getting chased by a great white! :)

It was modelled in Sketchup and brought into KS for some sweet renders, I searched for photo ref of great whites and imported these to use as backplates in KS, I would find and adjust an HDRI to match the lighting to the photo, its great being able to edit the HDRI and add lights in KS5, made for much less re-lighting work in Photoshop! Loving Clown Pass renders too!!!!! The render was then taken into PS, the plate was extend with many elements added and removed, painted out/in and cropped to create that cinematic wide screen look. This is how I go about producing visuals on a film when I use KS.

Unlike previous posts which were all about the model and render in all its glorious detail, these were more about the "shot", but its interesting to see how easily you can comp in a  KS render what ever the brief....

Hope you like them

Chris

Aqua Drone

Still in the early stages with this one but I've generated some cool product style visuals in attempt to pick a colour combo for the environment that I'm going to be putting it into. I'm imaging this is about a meter long (3' for all you imperial kids out there...) with 2 jet impellers and an underwater cam mounted on the belly..... Its function other than a being a remote operated jet boat with camera, its purpose for the environment visuals I'm about to do for it......? Well, stay tuned but I can say it'll involve some very fast Great White sharks!

Couldn't resist doing a little nod to one of my fave Manga films Akira, love Keneda's bike in that, hence the stickers.....

Get Ready

First test render, products shots first then environment visuals, this little puppy is a GPS controlled jet-boat with underwater camera so capture the great white sharks that give chase.... Stay tuned!

Next mech on the way!

The Starfish

I was looking at some motorbikes last week and admiring the way the hard mechanics are complemented by the smooth glossy paintwork on the fiberglass body, certain areas are cut away to allow some engine parts to show, it left me with a feeling that I wanted to create something that had this seductive material combination, glossy plastic and hard machined metal... I started noodling ideas in my sketchbook and still had this tri-head mech design idea from before that I wanted to develop further so began to push this shape around, creating flowing panel lines to break up the fiberglass shells, and designing mechanical parts that would be repeated around a center - but what does the mech do....? This is probably the first time that I didn't have an idea but wanted to created interesting shapes to allow materials to be assigned and just look dam good when photographed! I created some sort of turbine elements and exhaust vents, so visually it implies some sort of flight/hovering function - a lab drone.....? Could be, I like that and it's very fitting in white, but I know I wanted to try some other colours, red is sexy, more of a nod to the Ducati bikes I was looking at, tried a yellow version and it reminded me of an ROV sub unit, so that was the theme of the environment paint up, couldn't resist putting a shark in there (Jaws still burnt into my brain from a childhood viewing...!)

Hope you enjoy it!

ROV

Mind the shark

Original SketchUp model

Idea and form that hatched in my sketch book