Quick Sketchie

A quick sketch and paint in the office…hhmmmm I need to practice more…

Ballistic Parry: Side-sketch

Just an time out sketch, nothing official.

Ballistic Parry: Preliminary concepts ver.2

I made some changes on Parry’s appearance…
1) By tuning down his spikey hair style;
2) Unsharpen his face, rounded a little;
3) What he is wearing remains the same, but with “explosive” colors to make Parry still a bad-ass kid who so passion in rocket science;
4) Blue shorts, to cool down the “burning rocket” above Parry torso.

Parry ver.1.0
The first version I did after changing feature mentioned, the physical scale is small, short legs and arms, big palm and head;

Parry ver.2.0
This version has the same features but in a different scale, a more refined version with little realistic touch, though the face still looks the same.

Ballistic Parry: Preliminary concepts

Story board for the storyline:

Men in RED

People from foreign countries will probably not understand what it means, but those from Malaysia.

Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration

OMG, atlast graphic applications make use of hardware graphic acceleration!!!

Santa Clara (CA) – GPU acceleration is one of the most significant trends in today hardware industry, opening the doors to an entirely class of software running desktop. What will be possible is fascinating to see on a monitor, nut it is not tangible, if you just hear about it. It appears that the next Photoshop will be one of the first mainstream applications that will tap into the GPU for a speed up. And, at least from what we have seen during a first demonstration, the progress is simply stunning… (read the full story).

Source: tgdaily.com

Welcome to DW~CreativePlayBox!!

Greetings!! Ok not actually a bad news yer see, I officially announce that all non art & design related content of darkwingsdesign.wordpress.com will be moved to to http://dwplaybox.blogspot.com. Which means from now on THIS weblog will be a fully art, design, caricature creation and all sort of creative activities; consider it is a subordinate section of www.darkwingsdesign.com.

The previous posted content will be removed soon; the content category and even the weblog title will be reset to serve the new direction.

So welcome to DW~CreativePlayBox!

Humanized Cartoons – Jessica Rabbit Untooned

Remember Jessica Rabbit? She is the sultry human cartoon wife of Roger Rabbit in the 1988 Academy-Award winning film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The movie mixed action with animation to create a marvelous “toon” universe.
Jessica Rabbit was “untooned” and made to look lifelike and the result is pretty impressive.

“I was able to complete the face relatively quickly but the real challenge was everything from her neck down,” the designer says of the untooning process. “Trying to piece together parts of a body from multiple photos on top of a highly disproportionate body was pretty difficult. I considered only doing the face but I predicted pitchforks and torches if I chose that route.”

Source: TrendHunter.com / pixeloo.blogspot.com

Drawing With Mosquitos – Malaria Kills More Than Hitler, Stalin, Tanks & Bombs

A campaign by África Directo. The message that “Nothing and no one takes as many lives as malaria” is ingeniously delivered by drawing portraits of infamous dictators such as Stalin and Hitler, who have the blood of millions on their hands, using hundreds of mosquitos.

The print ads also use mosquitos to depict killing machinary such as tanks and fighter jets dropping bombs. The wonderful campaign was created by Spanish ad agency Sra. Rushmore with great art direction by Ana Delgado and Marta Herradura, and creative direction by Miguel García Vizcaíno and Paco Conde.

Source: Trendhunter.com

Zipper Clasps – ZipHolder

As most guys know, an open zipper can be pretty embarrassing.

Well, worry no more. The ZipHolder makes sure you avoid such embarrassing situations, as it neatly and securely holds the zipper in place. The mechanism is achieved by attaching a small “rope” to the zipper handle which can be hooked to your jeans’ button whenever you want to secure the zipper.

I would think it’d would be an annoying extra step to unhook it before you can zip down when you need to go the bathroom really fast though.

Source: Trendhunter.com