Robbie McIntosh ID

Final Year project images

2011-10-14T01:50:00.000-07:00

final year project WIP render

2011-08-16T20:03:00.000-07:00

better pics

2009-11-15T02:09:00.000-08:00

oh by the way the camera worked, cept i kinda put it in upside down..

Thanks to kevin and justin for these great shots

good afternoon good evening and good night

2009-11-11T03:42:00.000-08:00

Gday all, after many hours of priming, bogging and sanding ive completed my blimp concept. Turned out great. Better than i had imagined. The pics are a bit crappy, dust and clay have clogged my camera phone lens, hope to upload some better ones soon. thanks to all that have followed me on this project and given support. Stay tuned for more adventures :P

Whats the time? its boggin time

model update

2009-11-07T02:44:00.000-08:00

Gday all, heres an update on the model. Got the rapid prototypes back and wee wee woo waa, turned out great we cant believe they were printed in plaster. whats best is the fan fit into the hole i made in the tail piece. ive added a feature running down the side of the blimp to add more visual appeal, as well as a bulge/tail at the back to help with proportion. I hope to finish surfacing and begin painting soon. Id be happy to be finished with claying and bogging, i swear the amount of dust and crud i have ingested has taken years off my life..

model progression

2009-10-27T22:21:00.000-07:00

Heres a couple of pics of the engine detail being made.

Rapid prototype model

2009-10-19T21:40:00.000-07:00

Gday all, been rather sick all week havent been able to update. Heres a couple of renders of the rear fan component alias model I may be sending away for rapid prototyping also some rims for the front side intakes.

photoshops

2009-10-06T19:35:00.000-07:00

Heres a couple of photoshops and an updated package.

Clay progression and proposed graphics

2009-10-05T01:54:00.000-07:00

Playing around with graphics on the main body to make the plain surfaces more interesting

Its coming alive

2009-09-30T06:24:00.000-07:00

Finally got the tail piece done. starting to come together. Thanks to simon for being apart of the armature!

Update

2009-09-22T12:42:00.000-07:00

Did up a tail part in alias tried to do a render like Miles Water house, bit of a fail i think but oh well

http://www.designertechniques.com/tutorials/miles-waterhouse-truck-rendering-page1.htm

sketches over clay

2009-09-16T18:54:00.000-07:00

The Following are sketches over the clayed surface and tail armature. What I wanted to achieve through these drawings was to highlight how i used surface changes to show my initial design ideas where i wanted create parts but found it too difficult/ineffective as mentioned previously. When i eventually paint the model i will use graphics to break up the barrel shape surface and will look to borrow graphic styles from the Bontrager Brand.

final sketches and final proportions

2009-09-08T08:21:00.000-07:00

A few updated ideas.

Initially wanted to create several different parted surfaces in clay although it ultimately proved too hard to distinct the different "parts" effectively so I ended up with something that was mapped out the same way, using the same features as the initial idea but used changes in surfaces instead or segmented parts .

prep for clay and initial surfacing

2009-09-07T06:33:00.001-07:00

Initial foam armature, first layers of clay - everyone thought it was a dogs head (bontrager the dog), i also heard crocodile, seal.. anyway remounted it in a more sensible orientation and sorted out an accurate proportion for the tail part which replaced the propellor at the back after feeling it didnt quite work as well in the armature.

new sketches QnD render

2009-09-07T06:27:00.000-07:00

This was a late idea that I ripped the styling off a Bontrager speed bottle, up to this point i was having trouble finding a obvious inspiration from the brand. The idea consisted of a smalled camera part driven by a large fan. The "head" as in the previous concept would be filled with helium to aid in keeping it airborn and reduce complete dependence on the fan.

restyle of original idea

2009-08-14T02:20:00.000-07:00

This is the newly restyled camera droid (minus the detail of the fans on the sides). Thought the older one looked too generic. With this one im going for something a little more organic.

The new image is a detail of the side wings/fan by the way..

At this point in the project i toyed with the idea of a blimp/airship style craft. The advantage being that blimps are cool and when filled with helium they reduce dependence on the fans on keeping potentially heavy camera equipment in the air. Cameras mounted to blimps are not a new thing but i thought it would be interesting to design one to a smaller scale as well as add a certain styling to a generally generic product.

final concept render

2009-08-11T02:50:00.000-07:00

This was the 1st concept I rendered, i was after something that looked fast/ jet like, i was ultimately unhappy with the overall shape and proportion

final concept 1 - humming bird

2009-08-10T03:25:00.000-07:00

After deducing that a camera with wheels would still pose a threat for cyclists I then looked to the skies. There are a few flying cameras on the market, generally the ones utilised in sport traverse wires or are flown like kites, there are also a few that I found that operate in a similar way to a helicopter. I thought the products from microdrones were interesting. Other inspiration came from military surveilence craft.

http://www.microdrones.com/en_home.php

I also got some initial inspiration from a concept design blog

http://conceptships.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=50

random photoshop render

2009-08-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

A render of an earlier sketch of a vehicle for Lance

more skeetches

2009-08-04T18:56:00.000-07:00

At this stage of the project I had chosen to go with a camera vehicle, that would work to make safer cycling events and provide a possible breakdown support vehicle for cyclists. As you can see in the two links below (the only two I found) both occassions the motorcyclist and camera man are not exactly minding the road in front of them. A split second lapse of concentration could bring down a whole pack of cyclists. The benefit of a robotic camera vehicle is that it would largely be free of human error..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL6zD0gsHkk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mH0aDotZAc

initial sketches

2009-07-28T23:45:00.000-07:00

The first set of sketches are just my initial styling ideas for a cycling support vehicle, naturally I was leaning more towards a ute or truck for the basic purpose of storage capacity. It was later determined that a large conventional vehicle had no place on narrow european roads and that a smaller more agile vehicle would be more usefull.

livestrong long distance cycling support vehicle

2009-07-28T23:42:00.001-07:00

In this project I sought to design a vehicle based around Lance Armstong and the cycling brands he races with. Utilising product styling ques from Trek, Shimano and Bontrager.