Concept Development Tutorial / Move to LA.

I just got another tutorial posted on the AliasDesign Community site. It shows how I created the image in the last post. I'm pretty happy with it.

You can find the tutorial here.

I'll be moving to LA in 3 weeks, so crazy madness will be filling up most of my time until then. More than likely I won't be posting until I get settled in down there. I'll miss the Canadian falls, but will have no problem forgetting about shoveling.

SUH.

SID Master, lol

So I was featured in a series called Master of SID in Michal Jelinek's Blog, DaVinci: Visual Library. (SID = Sketching in Design)

I was pretty surprised to be included, as the caliber of people he has for this blog is way up there.
Anyway here is the link...

http://aliasdesign.autodesk.com/blogs/blog/view/Master_of_SID_-_Kyle_Runciman/

And an image made for the post, but not included.

Missed Opportunity

I need to start reducing my posts as this is getting out of hand.

I took a stab at the Peugeot Design Competition this year, fully intending on finishing and submitting. But my procrastination skills took over and now I can hope to finish it at some point later in life. Maybe for next year's contest...

The objective was to design a car/mode of transport for tomorrow's Megalopolis. Pretty Bland topic these days, but I came up with the idea of a truck with a custom conveyor bed that allows the driver to adjust the wheel base. You could also attach different items to this bed like bikes, more seating, or whatever else I didn't think of.Initial Concept Sketches
Initial AliasStudio concept Model
Shot of the 3 different lengths with box/cabin attached.
In short bed form with bike mounts attached
The furthest I got in terms of actual presentation ready imagery.

Nudes at work.

Sitting here in an empty office, I figured I would post some stuff I did at the Life Drawing session here on Wednesday. I forget the model's name, but she was very good at staying completely still.
I need some serious work on figuring out faces so that they dont look different in every image.

In case you're wondering: I do use a Bic 0.07 HB mechanical, by choice. lol.
10 minute pose - Resting 10 minute pose - Standing
30 minute pose - Sleeping

Heading to Ottawa tonight for the weekend, again. This time is to visit the Carleton ID Exhibition.
http://www.id.carleton.ca/exhibition/

Photoshop World 2008

Back from Orlando, FL. Finally.

The show was smaller than I had anticipated, but still a positive experience overall. I met some great people and got to work on some decent demos. Here are a couple samples of the works I did to promote the new release of SketchBook Pro.
I don't know why all I all the decent ones were gray scale cars, but that's how things go i guess.

It took 29 hours for me to get home, via air. After the whole ordeal, all I can express is, don't fly US airways. I made the mistake of going to the airport3 hours early

(Just for the air conditioning, more than anything. I am a true believer of showing up 45 minutes before a flight. That way, when you are confronted by long security lines, you can bypass right up to the front. I've never been in the Toronto airport more than a half hour before the security gates.)

Anyway, the flight before mine departed on time, and broke down right before lift off, so they had to deplane and board our plane. This somehow delayed our flight for 3 hours and cancelled any chances of connecting flights. So they put a bunch of us up in a Holiday Inn, and booked me in for a 7:40am flight the next day. At the hotel, I arranged for a wake up call, which didn't come through, and I ended up missing that flight by 3 hours. I weaseled/charmed my way into getting an extra long stay, free lunch, breakfast and movies as well as compensation for an alternate flight, which is a pretty big deal, from a nice lady named Cindy. After that, our 5:15 flight boarded on time, but a 20 minute rainstorm resulted in 2 hours and 22 minutes on the tarmac. After that, no hick ups.

On a side note, I guess someone noticed my digital painting tutorial and posted it on http://www.carbodydesign.com/. Last time I checked it had 570+ hits on the first day. Its the first tutorial on the main page.

And another side note,I will not be extruding tubes for a living at a waterslide design company, and will be remaining with Autodesk for another 4 month contract. Good stuff I suppose.

This image was taken by a dude I met on the showfloor. I convinced him to buy 2 seats of sketchbook. I'm a sales guy now.

YouTube Action. Nice head, bud.

It's been a while since anything exciting has happened, artistically, which explains the lack of posting. But, today I have 2 videos up on YouTube.

The first, is a SketchBook promotional video for which I provided all of the sketch work and acted. If its hard to decipher what the product is, think toast and espresso in one convenient package.



Second is a sketch of a character named Vince I have been drawing for almost 10 years now.
Again, this is being used as a Sketchbook promo, presenting tools and techniques for SketchBook 2009, which is to be released on Tuesday.


This one was sped up around 2000% to keep the video short. The actual illustration took just over an hour. Early morning pace.

I'm heading off to Orlando tomorrow morning to attend Photoshop World working again at the wacom booth, demonstrating Sketchbook. Yet, again. Hopefully I'll return with some decent work to pin up. And also a handful of job offer. :P

Digital Painting Tutorial.

I just got an AliasStudio tutorial posted on AliasDesign. It's a pretty standard automotive sketch with the obligatory female model adding to the composition. Turns out that it is the featured tutorial for the month, even though there are 2 other ones that blow me out of the water. Here is the link, and a sample image.

http://aliasdesign.autodesk.com/learning/tutorials/details/Digital%20Painting_133056/