Ford

Epic snapshot.

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Teravolt Update

This very hero got a little Motorpunk update ;)

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References: Underwater Dogs

More of these beautiful photos on This is colossal...

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Blame it on Jason Kottke and the Amunt log!

Today, I'd like to post again something about how strongly my design work is shaped not only by art references but by all kinds of non-art things. Their colours, forms, textures, complexions etc. are essential parts of my initial design process. I get those inspirations or "inital sparks" from certain places on the internet, like from Jason Kottke's weblog or the Amunt log, two of my favorite sites I explore nearly every day. This very Motorbirds jet design here below is the fruit of one of those explorations and displays excellently how the inspirations determine the final design:

Photo via Amunt log

Photo via kottke.org

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Motorbirds Illustrated: Skipunk Motorsuit

This is another "semi-clean-up" design of sorts, I just coloured the rough sketch. One can see still all the scratchy lines etc. BTW, this here was a kind of warm-up thing too, I'm again on this skicat character, so I was toying around with it a little.

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Pic of the day: Undead Popeye

This sketch by Kerry Gammil made my day, today...

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Ferrari F17 Land-To-Air Motörhead

Part two of my Ferrari series: This bird controlled land-to-air Ferrari jet-skull displays the essence of my design style pretty well, I guess. Like André Franquin meets Carl Barks meets George Lucas meets Jim Henson meets Jules Verne meets Red Bull.

BTW, the photo (see end of the post) is a snapshot of one of the test flights the Ferrari F17 made from here - across the Atlantic - to the Swiss-Miss studio in NYC. Nice view Tina and her studiomates have, no? (Photo via The Brander)

Rough process pieces:

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Pose References

Jane Goodall and baby chimp, "Photos: Women of National Geographic"

Via El vigues errante

Update: Facial Expression References

Spider Monkey via National Geographic

Chimp with sons via National Geographic

Monkey self portrait via kottke.org

About this photo: "[...] A crested black macaque grabbed a photographer's camera and shot dozens of shots, including this fine self-portrait." (J. Kottke)

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Inspiration: Hanna Barbera Land Concept Art

What a find! I worked in a theme park designing team a couple of years ago, too. This find is pure heaven to me! They must be from the late 70s or early 80s, I guess. Anyway, they're great!

Via Theme Park Review

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Disney Animation Research Library

Via On Animation

By the by, I could watch this clip a million times:

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The Ferrari Needle

Snow Jet!

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Inspiration: The White Night

By Adolf Fassbender, 1936

Via kateoplis

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Modern Life

Those modern mobile devices keep us connected, everywhere!

Lately, I kept my development artwork quite rough. These here are not finished clean-ups, but coloured roughs of sorts.

By the by, the next post will be without any antennas, almost without any ;) Anyway, did anbody enter the Eustace Tilley book bag contest? I just checked out the gallery of entries and this one is my absolute favorite piece: "Made In NYC", by CG23

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I just couldn't resist your product today because of the package

I'm a great admirer of the style of magazine advertisements from the 1960s. This one here is from 1965:

Via Modern Mechanix

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Plumb Forgotten; NY Book-Bag Contest!

Gosh! Did I ever post the photo reference I used for the header of this very blog? No, I'm sure I didn't. Here you are:

Photo via eoopilote

Apropos! Before I forget! There is an Eustace Tilley Book-Bag Cover Contest over at The New Yorker. The deadline is Midnight on January 18th. If you're fast and talented (and a permanent resident of the US or Canada), this is your contest: "Eustace Tilley appeared on our first cover, in 1925. To celebrate our 87th anniversary, we invite readers to create a book-bag version of our iconic dandy. Twelve winners will be featured in a slide show curated by The New Yorker’s art editor, Françoise Mouly. One grand-prize winner will get their design printed on a Strand Bookstore tote bag and a $1,000 Strand shopping spree."

Those duckish and bullish Tilleys here are some older designs I did a couple of years ago for the Huckleberry Finn project (a project that never got the green), I just thought it would be nice to post them along with the info about the Eustace Tilley contest.

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