create hdri for hypershot…

I found this tutorial on how to create and work with HDRI images (environment images) for use in hypershot.  I found that an easy starting point is to COPY one of the default hdri files and paint over it.  COPY- put your version in your own directory- DO NOT OVERWRITE THE DEFAULT HYPERSHOT HDRI FILE!!!

concept art…

Here are resources for those of you interested in concept art for entertainment and game design.

Individuals:

Syd Mead was the first industrial designer to get involved with movie design (most notably Blade Runner and Tron).   Also here is a gallery of his early work, the US steel book.

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what I did on my summer break…

Started an internet radio station!  Lots of fun, lots of work -give it a listen here:

(stream link)  http://listen.radionomy.com/dive-bar-jukebox.m3u

(page link)  http://www.divebarjukeboxradio.com

free software…

Here are some free programs that might help you out.

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you suck at photoshop…

Go watch this hilarious series of how-to videos involving Donnie, the angry photoshop guy.  Probably NSFW.

(Also available on youtube)

Seriously, it was funny and I learned a bunch of new photoshop tricks!

illustrator resources…

An on-going list of resources for our favorite vector drawing program…

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old design texts online…

Horizons” by Norman Bel Geddes.

The GM Fururama Brochure:

Designing Business” by J. Gordon Lippincott:

Lippincott & Margulies were a very influential New York ID firm founded in 1943. They evolved over the years to focus on brand strategies. They still exist as Lippincott Mercer.

kuler.adobe.com

A nice resource for color schemes; fun to play with, too. 

www.kuler.adobe.com

presentations…

This is one of my teaching secrets- presentationzen.com - Garr Reynolds blog on professional presentation trends and techniques.

Garr spoke at Google here.


history of industrial design…

Here is a link to a nice series of articles by Quentin Roper on the history of industrial design.

the future that never was…

Paleo-Future - http://www.paleofuture.com/

Norman Bel Geddes was one of the first to get the public excited about the neat Jetson’s style future that lay ahead. I recently found an electronic copy of his ground-breaking book, Horizons, here:

http://www.archive.org/details/horizons00geddrich

Here is a link to the Bel Geddes collection at the University of Texas:

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/belgeddes.scope.html

syd mead’s USS - a portfolio of probabilities…

USS - a portfolio of probabilities _03 by Prof. Michael Stoll.

These are the first futuristic paintings that really got Syd Mead noticed. We are really lucky to have a digital record of these paintings, as this was a very limited printing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mstoll/sets/72157603779992640/

book list…

These are books you should be familiar with and probably buy if you find them ;-)

(This list will be added to periodically as I find time to work on it!)

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ip rights and scad…

IP Rights and SCAD…

A lot of my students ask about what degree of control or ownership the college may wield over student projects. I think that a lot of misconceptions exist because of the Right to Use policy that SCAD has (I’ll bet that many other schools have a similar policy).

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