Wacom Inkling first test

It just keeps getting better and better.Wacom have given us another tool for our digital studios but this one brings us back to basics we can now digitally capture our doodles or sketches that we might do on a piece of paper or sketchpad in front of the telly or in my case sitting on top of a mountain far away from anyone.
the sketch I did in the RMIT University wacom lab was on a piece of A3 photocopy paper with the sensor attached to the top.I sketched with my normal light hand and I was impressed to see how the pressure sensitivity of the pen even picked up my very light lines.The ability to draw in layers was also a bonus and as you can see I was the able to import my sketch into my favourite Alias sketchbook.By the way the sketch was an idea for a concept for a new Santa's sleigh for a Christmas card image I will post some more demos later.

Back to the Future

I'm good with colours and still have vivid memory's of the orange metallic paint finish on the Holden Hurricane concept car that sat down in engineering at Fishermans Bend during my time there as a young automotive designer. The team at Holden have restored the concept car and the paint color is spot on. I was rapped to be invited along with Ian Wong by Tony Stolfo Design Director GM Australia to view the Hurricane yesterday for the first time in over thirty years. The Hurricane represents the advanced thinking that automotive designers provide through future concept models and recent projects like the EN-V showcase the capability of the team at GM in Port Melbourne.

Alias Sketchbook concept sketches

Very pleased with Ryan Foncecas latest concept sketching skills Folio Demos

Alias training at Delinate

Myself Ryan Fonceca and Ian Wong spent a few days training and observing demos in Alias at Delineate thanks to Autodesk.It was invaluable working with Chris Blundell changing the surfaces on a digital model just like a designer and modeller would do on a clay model.Playing with Alias Showcase on the finished model was inspiring.Thanks also to Rob Veitch at Delineate. I will post more of Ryans final pre major work on his single person transport after his final exhibition this wed evening at RMIT University.

More digital folio layouts

Some more excellent folio pages by my RMIT entertainment concept design students.note their signatures appear on their sketches...always have ownership of your concepts

Digital Folio Design

Just to help any student or professional putting a digital folio together as a multi page pdf presentation, here are some sample pages by myself, Ryan Fonceca and Glen Tay.Just a few hints, wide screen is a good format and sketches are more important than finished images to show your design creativity.

RMIT Entertainment Concept Design-Folios

The exhibition on thursday night also showcased what my Entertainment Concept Design class has presented they were also required to present their work creatively on a CD WITH SOME VERY CREATIVE RESULTS

RMIT University 1st year concept sketching

Just a sample of what the students displayed at the exhibition.

RMIT University Industrial Design - Exhibition

RMIT Industrial Design held an exhibition of works from year 1-3 last night. The work of first year students in the communications course just gets better and better with industry guests praising the display of concept sketching, wacom rendering, and solidworks CAD modelling. Innovative approaches with wikis and blogs have proved to be successful with the O-I Work Integrated Learning (WIL) project an outstanding success. Staff Bernie Walsh, Ian Wong, Leigh Parker, Troy Nyssen, Jim Samartgis, Phillip Slattery, Ross Williams, and Ryan Fonceca are committed to developing the highest standard of industry required capabilities in the students.

Orange

It was only a week ago I posted that Orange had made another comeback as one of our favorite fashion colours and coincided with an exhibition called Orange by Ian Wong. Well today a very special Orange concept car returned to fisherman's bend ....the Holden Hurricane. I first saw this bright orange thing when I was a young designer at Holden Design downstairs gathering dust. Now completely restored, the Holden Hurricane will be displayed at Motorclassica at the Melbourne Royal Exhibition Building from October 21-23.

More racers

More 1st year students nullabor racers