OMG PS3 - (continued)

Okay, last design for a PS3 display for a while.  I need to work on other stuff, but I am pretty happy with how these designs progressed from being fairly simple and "blocky" to something waaay cooler.  Enjoy!

OMG - More PS3!!!

Haven't done much designing of late, but had some time yesterday to throw this third concept together.  As much as I'd like to go crazy with some detailing, my gut tells me not to because that would be contrary to the very clean style and branding of the product.

I have another concept taht I'll be generating today, and then that's gonna do it for my "studies in playstation".  It'll be time to move on to something else.

More Sweetness

Finally got around to working on that "Hamilton Sweet" Display.  The theme should be old, worn, faded, but still solid.  Using washed out wood boards with rusted metal bands (with rivets), the whole display carries the overall look and feel of the brand.  Now if I can just figure out how to make the actual product and sell it, I think I'd have a winner!

PS3 Strikes Again!

At the advice of a colleague, I decided to up the ante with the second PS3 Display concept and get wilder with it.  Since this isn't a "real" project, I really am not that concerned with budgets or manufacturing... just a sweet design to do justice to the product and the brand.  Enjoy!

Film

This short sequence was made for my Independant Study class during my final semester in college.  The class focus was to be an extension of my senior thesis - Entertainment Design.

The tank model was designed and built by myself and the set was constructed with foam chunks glued to chicken wire frames.  The final sequence was an animation that I concepted and storyboarded but was actually made by my friend Reuben.

It's low-budget and low-quality, but overall it’s not bad for a first time out with concepting and producing a sci-fi movie sequence.  One day I may decide to take this into some of the more sophisticated software I have and make some adustments (like removing the background and playing around with the brightness and contrast).  But for now, I’ll let this work stand in it’s original form.

Student Film - Tank Blast

Fun?

I am currently building a new gallery of various owrks and pieces that showcase all of my doodles, sketches, marker rendres, and digital illustrations of sci-fi and fantasy things.  Be alert for such dangers as:

- creatures
- spaceships
- environments
- other randomness

None of these was for any other purpose than my own amusement and entertainment - I hope you enjoy checking them out as much as I've had doing them over the years.  This particular gallery will be updated regularly and I'll have to take it one peice at a time since I have a huge stack of doodles and sketches that need to be scanned and then formatted.

http://gallery.me.com/skyarrow19#100046

Hamilton Sweet

Another detour on the road to getting that PS3 project wrapped up is a little idea I've had for a couple of years.  As my friends know, I have a soft spot for whiskey (bourbon and scotch in particular) but I'm pretty much a fan of the entire whiskey family.  So the idea came to me - "What if I could make my own?"  "What would it be called?"  "What would it look like?"

One day while thinking about it, the name popped into my head - "Hamilton Sweet".  Yes!  Thats it!  Now with a name like that, it would have to have an old-time kind of feel to it and would have to have a bit of meaning behind it as well as some kind of credibility.  Well all of that kind of ties in nicely with my own family history on both sides hailing from the Ozark Mountain areas of northern Arkansas.  Perfect!  That region conjours up the same kind of imagery as the Appalachians of Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia, yet is distincively "Midwest".

So from there I invented a fictional distillery called "Old Hamilton & Sons Distillery" and based it generally in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.

Here are my ideas for the label and the bottle (not very smooth renderings, but I'm not concerned with that at this point).  My main objective is to use this product to design some nice POP displays and signage with to add to my portfolio... enjoy!