I joined the recent challenge held by "Industrial Light and Magic" & "Artstation" It's a 3 phase challenge simulating a concept artists work environment. The first phase was to create at minimum 2 keyframes of any moment within the world of the original Star Wars movies.
These are my submissions:
A redesign concept for Darth Vader.
So what I'm changing is what if Anakin was given the task of redesigning his own repairs instead of Darth Sidious holding him back. Looking into Darth Vaders problems, or at least as much as I can find on the Star Wars Wiki Pages, Darth Vaders armor was very outdated and designed to hold him back and suppress his power. To keep him on a leash the Sidious could control.
Darth Vader was incredibly heavy and fought with calculated strikes to compensate for his new heavy body and armor. Anakin was incredibly fast and agile. He used his reflexes to get him out of a bad situation rather than calculating the enemies moves. In the end that was his downfall.
So some ideas with this was Anakin still wanting to hold onto his humanity as much as possibly. His helmet would open up revealing his face at Anakins will. Because the suit was pressurized to allow him to breath, Anakins lungs were removed completely, all of his oxygen is received through his body through mechanical air passages. His heart was badly damaged, his heart was removed completely and replaced with a constant pressure blood pump. If you were to check his pulse, there would be none.
I don't know why but Jedi loved to throw their robes down when getting into a fight, I figured Anakin would still hold onto his older ways and habits as he was transformed. To replace his cape, he would retain his robe and hooded stature. All of that is removed in a fight.
Anakins neck is completely replaced, I'm not sure if in the process his jaw needed to be removed but the idea stuck in my head as something neat, feeding off of Darth Maluk and Razael from Soul Reaver. Anakin would have projectors installed so when his helmet opens up, his old face would be projected over his head to give some sort of resemblance of normalcy to him.
This is a concept for a revamped ping pong game which is surprisingly really fun and makes a good party game. It's called WTF Ball!?! Basically you put two tables together so that the ping pong ball can run along the track. The object is to push the ping pong ball to the other side while your opponent of opposing team tries to push it back to your side and over the edge of the table. The thing is you can't touch the ball, you have to fan it acrossed and is very fun and gets everyone really riled up.
This is a model of a thumbdrive I designed in Solidworks rendered in Hypershot.
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I was creating a self promotion poster, something that would look pretty cool either hanging up in the office or just in your room and I realized this also has potential to be a design for me business card too.
"Design with Emotion" is my slogan and the symbol is myself as a robot. Sounds corny, I know, but the message is how I design something without life to have the qualities of life.
I've never really done graphic design before but I figure I might as well give it a shot. I was helping Colleen with some ideas for some graphics for the skis that shes making.
