Tek4 tools have been hitting Home Depot stores. It was a very eye-opening set of challenges. I am interested in seeing how consumers will react to the products. We went for a more machined, high metal design. It is good to have a development team that trusts the ID team.

PS- Highly recommend the flashlight which is solid and bright as heck.

Updated Maxwell render that shows the bowl a little clearer. The idea here was to freeze a splash in time. I actually ran some cloth simulations to get some iterations, but decided to manually sculpt the surfaces. It might be cool to run a few sims and then sell the SLAs/resin casts. If anyone would like to donate a Z-corp print I would love to print this sucker out :)

Rough sketches for the Kamaz Dakar 2022 Competition
Sketchovers welcome :)

Wow- brilliant example of connecting the dots. Kudos to Microsoft. I never thought that I would say that. My impression of Microsoft has been fast follower with not much creativity, but Project Natal has given me a whole new impression of the MS team.This is a brilliant execution and idea.

I was just talking to a co-worker that if I were to do a Master's degree it would be in HCI- Human computer interaction, and learn some programming. Indutrial design really trains students well in design thinking, so that we can design the physical world, and come up with ideas.

For example back in 2003 I had an idea for a touch screen 3G telephone (which unfortunately I only have a thumbnail of from the waybackmachine). I am sure that a 100 other students had the idea too, but none of us had the wherewithal to implement the idea. So it is not enough that you have an idea, you need to have the tools or staff to implement that idea. Many schools teach that you need a well rounded education, but I always feel that that is never deep enough. There are too many idiosynchrosies in the tools that we use.

Guys like this really impress me- able to combine physical and software design to create elegant solutions.

So many things to learn....

Learning Dynamics in Houdini. Hopefully I can do some product animation in the future

I dont understand how military programs like this are documented in such detail. I am glad that it is they are-as the design methodologies are super cool to observe. The only thing I can think of is that the current Black programs must be super advanced if they can talk openly about the JSF design proces.

Photoshop composites

Character Design for a Silo Collaborative Challenge
http://www.silo3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16119
Base Mesh: Silo
Texture: 3D Coat
Render: Maxwell

I really should be visiting CAD monkey again. It has been too long.

Thunderbird 2 WIP: model in Silo, texture in 3DCoat

So I was feeling particularly Dogbert like today. Here is my plan. Now that the economy is crap, I will make a tee that frenzies the crowd
Then when things turn around...BAM

When King Barack takes over I will appeal to the psychophants

and the real crazies of our age