Emergency Helicopter is an urban means for transportation concept that is specially designed to arrive quickly and perform as a rescuer from an accident spot. The compact helicopter can make room for two doctor crews, and a space to keep the wounded where the doctors can give them immediate medical attention. The injured person can board on the helicopter from the front side and remains equipped with a camera and built-in bad landing system. Both the tail rotor and main blade is designed in a more secured way for surrounding people. This copter would be very helpful for disaster situations.
Designer : Matthieu Tarrit and Jean-Charles Rodinger
The compactable bicycle concept was driven from the need of boosting urban space efficiency when it is not in use or being transported. The wheel is made of six modules, each with double pivot in their joints, allowing the wheel to be folded and become smaller. The spokes of the wheel are contained in the internal structure when you fold the bicycle and the spokes rotate to the system’s center where they attach with the center wheel. This bicycle is designed in a double triangle structure made of expandable modules with foldable ability. To keep the structure in position, the system has utilized a special X shaped component that aligns the modules to the exact position.
Victor says :
The Wheel is composed by six modules, each one has a double pivot in the joints, this allows the wheel to fold and become smaller, the spokes are contained in the inner structure of the wheel, when you unfold the system, the spokes rotate to the center of the mechanism where it attach to the center of the wheel.
The double triangle structure is composed by expandable modules, each one collapses to a smaller dimension and then this modules align by the rotation of the axis in the joint of the structure, to keep in position all the structure is used an special part in a form of an X that aligns all the modules to their position.
Designer : Victor M. Aleman
We ran across Winston, an amazing talent in a Liberian village we recently visited. Unbelievable.
Hmm, why he puts his hand behind his back every time?
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The fifth London Tattoo Convention was held at Tobacco Dock, London. Over 200 body artists from different countries took part in the convention.
There is a huge amount of complementary entertainment and visual experiences to enjoy, including exhibitions, artistic events, live rock bands, burlesque performers from around the world, let alone a range of traditional East End themed bars, restaurants and food stalls. But the best part of attending can be seeing the visitors and their tattoos.
If you think that digital art has no soul or dimension, you haven’t seen the work of these 15 visionary visual artists. Some work as concept artists or illustrators while others take more of a fine art approach, creating purely for their own pleasure. Many of them have backgrounds in traditional art, seeing the use of digital media such as Photoshop and Corel Painter as a natural evolution of the creative process but never losing sight of those mysterious elements that make a work of art truly effective.
Ray Caesar
Ray Caesar’s 17 years working in the Art and Photography Department of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has had a lasting impression on his work. One of the most famous and sought-after digital artists of the Pop Surrealism movement, Caesar has a unique style that blends otherworldly images with Victorian aesthetics. He creates models in a 3D modeling software called Maya, then wraps them in painted and manipulated texture maps and adds digital lights and shadows.
Bobby Chui
Digital painter Bobby Chui got his start designing Disney, Warner Bros. and Star Wars toys and that playful, imaginative tone remains in his illustration work for film and television today. Chui teaches digital painting at Schoolism.com and has won a number of CG Choice Awards from the CG Society of Digital Artists.
Of his choice to work with digital rather than traditional materials, Chui told It’s Art Magazine, “When I experimented a bit with Illustrator and Photoshop 3 I quickly realized that ‘digital’ will be the way to go in the near future. With digital art there is no need to buy paint or canvases and you can take your art with you to work on almost anywhere. You can’t do that using traditional materials.”
Cristiano Siqueira
Cristiano Siqueira, known as CrisVector, is a digital artist from Brazil who uses vectors, Photoshop and 3D to create his unique artwork. A former graphic designer, Siqueira was itching for a bit more creative freedom, which he has found now as a self-employed illustrator.
Siqueira told Abduzeedo, “All my illustrations are done entirely digitally I usually use 3 basic techniques: digital composition, digital painting and vectorial illustration. These techniques blend with each other many times, I may use composition elements on a painting (pictures insertion, for exemple), using vectorial elements in a composition or using digital painting elements in a vector illustration.”
Daniel Conway
UK artist Daniel Conway started out as an animator, but became intrigued by digital painting and soon taught himself how to create stunningly detailed fantasy art with a combination of Photoshop and Painter with a Wacom Cintiq, the hybrid LCD display and graphics tablet.
“I have a fascination with finding beauty amongst chaos,” Conway told ImagineFX. “I’ve always found the most memorable pieces of art are those that had some kind of an emotional impact on me. I really enjoy creating something that people can engage with. Emotion can be conveyed visually in many ways, from lighting and colour to the poses and facial expressions of characters.”
Sarah Rose Oliver
UK art student Sarah Rose Oliver hasn’t even graduated yet and she’s already making waves in the world of digital art, creating eye-catching pieces that have landed her on many a list of amazing digital painters. Her photo-realistic style is especially effective in portraits, which she creates using a Genius Pen Tablet and Photoshop.
Alberto Seveso
He might have no formal training in art, but Alberto Seveso clearly doesn’t need it. He has pioneered his own technique, which he named ‘sperm shaping’ for the shape of the vectors that he combines with images to create his own unique style. Many have asked Seveso to provide a tutorial but he refuses as he doesn’t want “clones of Alberto Seveso” running around and instead encourages other artists to go in their own direction.
Marek Okon
Polish artist Marek Okon creates each of his digital paintings as if they were a scene in a movie, capturing the most climactic moment of the story. A professional painter and concept designer, Okon produces his epic work on a Wacom Intuos3 A4 tablet.
On where he gets his inspiration, Okon told Psd tuts+, “When its a book cover, inspiration comes from the story I’m reading. During reading I see all the scenes in my imagination and then I pick one that will fit the cover best, one that will draw attention of the people passing by this book. When its personal works I usually create my own little story around the picture, so every piece of equipment presented, every location and character has its part in the world presented. I rarely go and create something accidental.”
Cris de Lara
Cristina de Lara Stockler, known professionally as Cris de Lara, made a name for herself in the world of digital art through her unique old-style pin-ups. Much of her work has a comic book feel due to the influence that working in the industry had upon her style.
De Lara told It’s Art Magazine, “The most important thing is what you can produce with your talent and skills, of course, the right tools help a lot, but you need to improve your skills every day to be independent of the digital weapons. If you really want to be an artist, in a digital environment, for sure a painting program helps a lot, but you should study art, painting, drawing, the masters and their styles and techniques, and so on, instead of being the best Photoshop operator, for instance.”
Tae young Choi
Game concept designer Tae young Choi uses Painter, Photoshop, 3ds Max and Maya to create imagery that fuses dystopian sci-fi and classical mysticism for his current employer, console game developer Midway. Though he says he’d like to work with more traditional media, he explained to Imagine FX that time and practical issues get in the way.
“As a professional concept artist, I need to create art very quickly and I’m asked to change the painting very often. That’s one of the main reasons for choosing digital techniques rather than traditional material at work. I guess I can be a ‘real’ painter after my retirement…”
Craig Sellars
Freelance visual development artist and concept artist Craig Sellars has a background in both classical animation and video games, and it shows in his work, which has a traditional painterly quality but illustrates the sort of bleak interiors and desolate landscapes that are commonly seen in games.
Wen Xi-Chen
UK/Shanghai-based artist Wen Xi-Chen is a pathology student by day, digital painter by night, creating stunning portraits using Wacom Tablet (Intuos2) in Photoshop and/or Painter Classic/ Painter X. She offers a number of tutorials on deviantART.
Don Seegmiller
Don Seegmiller is an artist, author and educator, passing on his gift for digital art at Brigham Young University. He has completed more than 600 paintings in 20 years, has had his work featured in a number of books and is a regular speaker at the Game Developers Conference.
A Corel Painter Master, Seegmiller says “A great deal of work in the video game, movie and other entertainment industries requires the development of a relatively rough concept sketch of a character into a more finished and refined piece of art. Often, this is not only to sell the concept, but also to give other people who will be working on the various aspects of the project a clear idea of the artist’s vision.”
Alon Chou
Taiwanese freelance digital artist Alon Chou worked in traditional media like oil painting and watercolor while a student at National Taiwan University of Art, and began learning digital art media only after taking a 3D modeling job with XPEC. Though he excelled at CG, Chou still identifies more with traditional artists in terms of his subject matter and style.
Chou told It’s Art Magazine, “What I want to express in my art is similar to the dramatic appeals in traditional drawings. I always hope to have a complete composition and plot. As for the contents of paintings, I wish to start with the emotions of daily life because we humans have all sorts of feelings. Anything picked up from daily life has the chance of becoming a touching piece of art work. Therefore, if there’s people involved in the work, I will make the emotion I want to express as the starting point.”
Marta Dahlig
One of the most popular artists on deviantART, Poland-based Marta Dahlig has gained a reputation for beautiful digital fantasy art. Dahlig uses modern tools like Photoshop and Corel Painter to create her works, but is inspired by classicists like William Bouguereau. Best known for her ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ series, Dahlig provides tutorials on YouTube and various websites so that others can see exactly how she produces her art.
Linda Bergkvist
Swedish illustrator and digital fantasy artist Linda Bergkvist, known online as Enayla, started out as a traditional painter. When she was given a Wacom tablet on her 20th birthday by her parents, Bergkvist didn’t even think she would use it. But soon enough, she was hooked, and since then she has become one of the most talked-about CG artists and worked as a conceptual artist on the film The Golden Compass.
15 Incredible Fashion, Editorial and Commercial Illustrators
These 15 artists create incredible illustrations using digital and traditional media, bringing stories and ideas to vivid life for books, video games and more.
The color is a radiant gold — the natural color of the golden orb-weaving spider, from the Nephila genus, one that’s found in several parts of the world.
Simon Peers, a textile maker who lives in Madagascar, conceived the project. Weaving spider silk is not traditional there; a French missionary dreamed it up over a century ago but failed at it. The only known spider silk tapestry was shown in Paris in 1900 but then disappeared.
These awesome images are the product of New York based artist Rosemarie Fiore. She has some unusual methods of image making which have included waffle irons and amusement park rides!
I started with a WVO kit from Frybrid. This company sells a rather high-end (~£2,000) setup for my model of Mercedes. The primary components are:
- Heated fuel hoses (hose-in-hose)
- 20-gallon fuel tank (with heat-exchange)
- Heat-exchanger under the hood
- Heated fuel filter
- Embedded computer to control dummy lights and switches between stock diesel tank and veggie oil tank based on radiator temperature
The idea is simple enough: Place a second fuel tank in the trunk and wait for the vegetable oil to reach a combustible temperature of 160°F. The temperature is important because vegetable oil is much thicker than diesel at room temperature, so you have to get the viscosity thin enough so the pumps and injectors can move it. By tapping into the car’s radiator hoses, the engine heat can be transferred through heat exchanges to warm the vegetable oil. Frybrid provides a reasonable kit, but to be honest, I wouldn’t do business with them again, as their customer service wasn’t the best. My system came with a faulty temperature sensor that I was unable to get replaced.
My conversion took one week with the assistance of a professional diesel mechanic. It was a stressful process ripping apart the car and just hoping that everything would work in the end. Having a mechanic around to offer tips, tricks and tools, and to make minor repairs on the ancient vehicle, helped quite a bit. I don’t recommend taking on your own conversion if you’re not already well versed with the automotive world. The downside of having a mechanic around is the cost (~£1,500).
Here are a few other bits of advice for anyone else considering such a project.
Do not buy an old car.
I’m not kidding — this was the single biggest mistake I made. Burning veggie oil is just a matter of heating and filtering, but keeping a 25-year-old car on the road is an entirely different challenge. If I were to do it again I would buy something made in the last 10 years that was well taken care of. I have spent just as much on repairs totally unrelated to the veggie oil as I did on the entire vehicle + conversion + installation. At this point the door locks do not work, the A/C and heating in the cabin are unreliable, the stereo is dead, and the odometer has been stuck at 86,000 miles probably sinces the early 1990s.
Oil collection and filtering is a skill.
I have an overpriced gear pump setup called the one shot. I like it because it’s self-contained in a Pelican suitcase, and includes a high-quality filtration system. But getting clean oil that won’t clog the vehicle’s fuel filter every 300 miles takes more than just this hardware. I like to collect oil from a local restaurant and let it sit for 30 days. Then I run the oil through a highly technical denim filter (literally old jeans from the thrift store). Finally, I use my one-shot to filter the remaining particles down to two microns out of the oil.
Consider making biodiesel
Lots of folks mix up the difference between WVO and biodiesel. Biodiesel is made through a chemical process usually combining lye and methanol with waste vegetable oil that causes the glycerin to drop to the bottom and leaves the lighter biodiesel to be poured off the top. I purchase methanol from a local car-racing supply store and lye from a pet-food shop to make biodiesel at home. It costs me roughly a £1 per gallon and prevents me from having to purchase diesel fuel for the cars stock tank. Just be careful: Both methanol and lye are hazardous.
Making your own fuel and converting a car is an adventure, and that’s really the primary reason to do it. Once you take into account the materials you need to buy and the time involved with maintenance and fuel production, I’m not sure that a real savings can be found. In my next post about Chance, I’ll include some performance data looking at one year of driving on WVO.
