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Robocop Head Concept Art

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 05:11:57 +0000

Wow, time moves quick. Lots of things going on, so I’ll keep it quick. Here are a few concepts for the new Robocop helmet designs. The main thing I want to talk about is the mouth guard. Everybody has always wondered “what if they shot you in the face?” (much like dumb and dumber). We’ll that a perfectly legitimate question. So why not have a cool mouth guard just incase. So I came up with the concept of the face guard. Which if I may say so, is a really cool addition. When he puts this mask on you really know he plans on throwing down.

Next up I plan on throwing out some concepts for Ed-209. Then after that wrapping up with the final designs. Don’t forget to check out the other Robocop redesigns here and here. then tune in for the finals coming in the upcoming weeks.

See ya,

Ohhhh. Guns, guns, guns! Robocop redesign

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:33:33 +0000

This week I worked on the some concepts for a new gun for Robocop. Since this is how I would do Robocop he doesn’t just get a handgun. That not how I would do Robocop. My Robocop should be more old west, law dawg. So in my version he gets a futuristic sawed off shotgun.

The future weeks I’ll show more on how things work but this shotgun would shoot five rounds before having to “reload” after that he has to switch to the second chamber by using the lever. For show he would use the leaver T2 style, with spinning reload like t-100 did. Yes there would be more simple ways to do it but this would look much cooler.

I figure he could reload the gun by halfway holstering the gun in his leg. There would be some sort of reload mechanism that would insert the shells.

That’s it for now. More Robocop redesigns to come.

Dont forget to check out last weeks in progress concepts for Robocop himself (HERE)

SOTW Robocop 2.0 Redesign

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 02:43:15 +0000

This weeks SOTW is a redesign of Robocop. A personal project I’ve been playing with off and on for a few months now, these are a few of the early concepts. Word on the street is that they are trying to revamp the Robocop franchise, so I wanted to give it a shot before they show anything. This way if the updated version comes out and I don’t like it I an actually say “I did something way better than that crap!”

On redesigns like this I always try to do almost a caricature of the old version. I want to change it as much as possible but still have the character be recognizable. If you can’t tell it is, then you have pretty much failed.

Anyways in the next few weeks I plan on redesigning everything from Robocop’s gun to ED-209. What you see here is just a start, and I have a lot more coming up that will be a lot more fleshed out. See ya next week.

SOTW Space Coffee Maker Design

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:37:20 +0000

This week the SOTW is going back to my Industrial Design heritage. But of course since I’m doing this for fun I wanted to throw in a sci-fi twist. This week I dreamed up a coffee maker for use in space, specifically in zero gravity. Call it an exercise in the absurd to get the creative juices flowing.

This was just a quick exercise for the blog, so I didn’t get to put in as much research as I normally would for a real product design. So here goes. I knew that whatever happened the system had to be 100% leak proof. So everything would be contained in bags (fig D). These bags would be LDPE with a heat resistant coating. This bag would be stored with water (room temp) then placed into the top of the coffee maker (fig G) along with the coffee packet (fig F). The coffee packet would be similar to what you get at those cheap hotels for your in-room coffee maker.

There would be a second bag in the actual mug. This bag would be completely empty and compressed. When the coffee maker is activated, the water is heated and the water bag is compressed forcing it through the grounds, then into the mug. No gravity needed and no liquid is released.

The mouth of the mug would be similar to existing baby sippy cups with the rubber mouth, which needs to be sucked on to release liquid. Another note is that the original water bag would be reused in the mug for the next brew.

Figure B gives you an idea of the materials. The mug would be made of some sort of brushed steel so that the mug can have a vacuum like a thermos and the main coffee maker would be made mostly of an ABS plastic.

Well that does it for now. Feel free to leave comments/ideas for the design. And remember in space no one can hear you percolate. Yeah I said it.

SOTW Space Fighter Concept Art

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:30:04 +0000

This weeks Sketch OTW is just a quick concept for a Space fighter. After letting it sit for a week I can already see a few things I’d like to add. Like a glowing jet stream and maybe some visible guns. But maybe this would work for a civilian model. I continued to overlay some metal textures from my favorite texture site. Most of the color was done by laying down a flat color I chose (each color on a separate layer) and then hitting them with the dodge and burn tools. Adding some color gradients at the end.

No thumbnails to go with this one so as a conciliation price I give you the evil Devil monkey! Enjoy!

Evil devil money ponders eating your soul!

SOTW Steampunk lava walker concept

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:35:54 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the Steam powered lava walker! This is a sketch I did a long time ago (see my first post) but never really got around to adding color to the concept. The inspiration for it was just by coming up with three random themes. Lava, steam punk, and 4 legged. I love picking the three random things because it gives you starting point instead of just pulling something from the air.

I tried something a little different with my approach by laying out flat colors and then using the burn and dodge tool in photoshop then going over a second time with some color to add the glowy parts.

I also overlaid a few textures that I got from HERE. Awesome site, with lots of free textures to choose from. It’s easily the best texture site I have found yet.

That’s it for now. With any luck I’ll be posting next week too. Hey nobody is perfect….

Toy Design Portfoilo Update

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:35:37 +0000

Yet another portfolio update. This time I’ve updated my toy design portfolio with a video. Lots of new slides on the video that aren’t on the website yet. Those slides will be added to the website next week. Also for next week the sketch of the week will be back (maybe sketch of the year would be more appropriate). I’ll give you a hint, think this but in color.

With out further adieu the 2011 video portfolio.

Graphic Design Portfolio Update

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:00:46 +0000

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted on my blog. I promise I’ve been keeping busy updating my portfolio and a lot of side projects here in Orlando Florida. I have a few concept sketches that I’ll be posting ASAP and adding a few pages to the portfolio section of the website. Here is the video portfolio I just made for some of my graphic design work. Feel free to leave a comment.