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Creative Mornings Berlin talk

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Fri, 5 Dec 2014 11:47:00 +0100

I had an opportunity to give a talk showcasing BS series concept art at #creativemornings, "Taking a chance on planet Earth". Used Webpgr to build the presentation, take a look at the slides.

Piranhas

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:14:00 +0200

Asymmetric body highly maneuverable spacecraft. Piranhas are designed to patrol a thermosphere level of populated planets. The main task of the fleet is to split large asteroid bodies to avoid devastating collision with settled areas.

Skateboards hanger at Webpgr

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 01:50:00 +0100

Some time ago I performed a present for my good friend and co-founder of Webpgr, where I work.

The board hanger for Falko's various skateboards. The hanger is designed to hold 9 differently shaped rides with various wheel sizes.

For the wall hanger design I tested several variations and the final decision led to a kind of a parking lot design. Three from about 10 design variations presented bellow. I generated, multiple structural concepts where one of them was acrylic laser cutting, but due to low budget we cut to the vinyl sticker and off-the-shelf clips hanger. And the nice thing about this clips that it carries same name as Falko's family name. :)

7th Sector Sea Monster

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:34:00 +0100

Sea Monster is space to surface vehicle. The vehicle development initially based on ekranoplan layout to fulfil logistics tasks on water worlds of 7th Sector. Several innovative features developed for the vessel: orbital drop, thermo-resistant chameleon skin, teflon belly coating, wing electromagnetic joints.

Sector 7: Futurescape SketchWall Challenge submission.

First test flights revealed construction weaknesses of early four-intake engines. During Orbit Drop trials were discovered several engine failures which lead to crash of vehicle. The main reasons to failure were high drag force of the block shape, low power in generator unit to sustain stable anti-gravity field plus weak structure of the engine block. On the later stage of development the problematic engines were replaced with two fused double engines with classic round form which drastically improved safety and performance of the vehicle.

Coffee tank.

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:53:00 +0100

Coffee Corps hover tank is aimed to deliver hot beverage to soldiers on action field. It is fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armoured logistics unit.

Imagine if it will not get to trenches...

Coffee Corps Unit.

Mad Bat

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 16:39:00 +0100

Mad Bat is a hyper-sonic stealth unit. Convertible drone to pilot and backwards unit. The jet optionally carries external detachable engine at its belly.

Details.

Sketches.

Preliminary rendering.

Webpgr launch

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:00:00 +0100

Another space theme, this time for Webpgr. The artwork was made to be shown at Webpgr's launch party. The unique thing about the shuttle, that uses all thrusters, including its own. Massive start...

This version is adopted to be a wallpaper, so feel free to use it as the desktop image.

Reworked Barracuda BS by Denis Zholob.

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:51:00 +0100

Some time ago Denis made rework of his Barracuda Drone model. Since his first trial he drastically improved in his rendering skills and the result is a fresh look on futuristic Police bot. The design is originally based on my old sketch.

Unfortunately, I had no time to post it immediately, I hope he will forgive me that. ;) Many thanks to Denis for sharing the coolest rework.

Sketch Jam 4

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:16:00 +0100

Another wonderful weekend at Oberholz. Fourth Sketch Jam meeting with Andre Oustinov, Ola Liola.

This time I was into Automotive sketches.

At Webpgr

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:15:00 +0100

After some silent days...

Found my self founding a company that deals with web builder. One highly potential and interesting project. The company is a startup focused on development of new age platform for websites creation. Unlike others this does to creative the ability to work on unlimited canvas on animations driven web interfaces. The product breaks the rule of standardized responsive layout making the work flow of designer easier and fluent. Imagine the way you can edit the website like in Illustrator or Photoshop? Sounds like a dream. This drastically differs from the common tools like like Wix, Squarespace, or Webflow. The product is an interactive website composer where you can create websites that have support to mobile native gestures like swipe and pinch. It is unique in terms of the approach to designer workflow and final result. The project carries a name of Webpgr (sounds like web pager).

Recently, finished the logo design for the project which. The logo depicts "W" letter in brackets which stands for fictional HTML markup. The logo is has several options presented bellow for various occasions. The digital version is designed to be on screens and the colours it uses can not be printed. Light grey is for printed media like business cards face. Dark grey version for extreme cases where non of other options may be applied. The logo is born from a pixel.

The background is the part of the concept where zoom-in and zoom-out is the major them. It would be like a difference between space bodies and molecules.

Sketch Jam 3

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:21:00 +0200

Another nice week end session at coffee shop. Another mecha walkers and markers.

Some awkward drones and robots.

And XR-T4s unmanned flak walker.

Sketch Jam 2

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:07:00 +0200

Another calm weekend "Sketch Jam". We had great enjoyment talking and drawing mecha. If you in the area next time, join us.

Participators: Vadim and me.

Medium 6 legged drone.

Medium support manned and unmanned 4 leg walkers.

Sketch Jam

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:11:00 +0200

Recently we started to make sketch sessions or as we call it "Sketch Jams" at Oberholz coffee. Really nice environment in central berlin allows us to stay for 4-5 hours and make sketches.

Participators: Ola Liola, Vadim Motov and me.

Here are some results.

My chubby spaceship. Kind of a transporter with weirdo pilot outside.

And some mechs.

BSAL Drone, work in progress.

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:58:00 +0200

Here we go... Work in progress on BSAL spacecraft in Cinema 4D. Working on the design of drone which derives from initial drawings.

The project is moving slowly, just because I'm learning the software and its features. One of the main tools is used in the process is Body Paint. Awesome thing allows to paint over surfaces just like in Photoshop. Another discovery is the final render may look like it is drawn in Photoshop. The big wonder is that animation is stylised as quick 2D matte painting.

Work environment to your attention.

Clay material, which is very helpful to initiate morphology buildup helps to see bad surfaces. The spacecraft has flat fuselage packed with electronics. It has an option for canopy connection at the frontal bottom part. The canopy is optional feature which may be modelled in much later stage.

Real world size.

Next step is to work on clean white surface adding details like ribs, jets, braking flips.

The overall shape seems to look well balanced and dynamic.

The next step is to use rendered image for over-paint or sketch-over. Helps to develop plenty of variations in less time as it would take in 3D. The results were not satisfying, bit too obvious.

Later I met Vadim, a very talented guy, promising designer and good friend of mine Vadim Motov and requested to comment on the design. Vadim took it very seriously and made his version. Double tail and triangular intake, opening in the middle and some rigid wing connectors. Nice, ha! Several details are seems to work very well.

After the experiments, started to work Body Paint feature trying to lay down nicely the parting lines and markings. Something really surprising happened with the surface when I applied various greys. It became kinda weathered out and dirty emphasising the artificial Photoshop quick render look. Lovely appearance.

Additional details were added at this step. The flip got a chrome hydraulic cylinder and frontal part got sensors unit with glowing eye.

Up to now. The vessel is not finished yet, although the direction can be clearly seen, even previewed from various angles.

Plugins flyer

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:45:00 +0200

Facebook header. Yellow school bus packed with bass speakers for "Bass station" drum n bass party invitation flyer.

And avatar square version.

Mecha worm

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Wed, 6 Mar 2013 01:03:00 +0100

Experiments.

Hover Tank

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:45:00 +0100

Levitating lightweight tank with compressed infrared beam cannon.

BS Priest

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:39:00 +0100

Semi-cybernetic drone jet from 32nd Intelligence Cluster.

Publication on Business Boom Collective

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:16:00 +0100

Recent Sci-Fi Concept Art is published at Business Boom Collective. And by the way, it's nice source to follow.

Chromosome on the Cell cover.

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:43:00 +0100

The artwork was made for University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, Cellular and Molecular Medicine that published an article dealing with chromosome mutations. The Cell editors has selected the artwork to appear on the cover of well known magazine.

Layers breakdown. Naked chromosome. Output form Cinema 4D

Photoshop layers with protuberances and smokes.

Combination of both from above.

Publisher's final version.

Many thanks to Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., Jacob Michaelson, Ph.D. and Abhishek Bhandari B.S.

Barracuda by Denis Zholob

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:58:00 +0100

Denis is a 3D artist that picked BS Barracuda as an outline for his artwork. Attached few images form Blenderartists forum where he posted his work progress. Very well done! Even super tiny details are translated to the model. Thank you Denis, it's a great pleasure to see such evolution of an initial idea.

Life scene.

Pencil car drawings

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sun, 2 Dec 2012 02:25:00 +0100

BMW Gina

Shelby AC Cobra

BS NG3

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:25:00 +0100

Death of pilot scene at landing pad close to his interstellar cruiser. God knows why he was killed.

Concept Ships publication

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:07:00 +0200

Both Tarantula and Razor on Concept Ships Blog

Alpha markers testdrive.

noreply@blogger.com (bur) — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 03:25:00 +0200

Recently, I have purchased Korean Alpha Color Markers grey set. The test drive of the sketches made with Mclaren P1.

Looks nicely designed set. They remind me Copic markers as they have same form factor, colors tint and the friction with paper feels pretty close. Definitely, high quality product for slightly lower price.