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Corona, Silent

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Corona Typewriter. Digital Image; Blender 3D, Illustrator CS3. © 2010 Peter Demaria & ETA

This illustration has been in the works for well over three months. I started out by wireframing everything in Illustrator CS3, then moved on to color and shading/highlighting after everything was looking just right. The drawing also incorporates a few parts that I built and rendered using Blender 3D, a little bit of an experiment on my part but one that worked out pretty well. The typewriter is an old Smith-Corona (produced in 1932), not my own, in need of a little TLC and a very pretty writing machine.

Being relatively new to Blender 3D (arguably the best in free, open-source 3D software), I wasn’t quite sure how it would suit my purposes. Thankfully the Blender 2.5 public beta has a snappy new GUI that makes working with Blender a LOT less convoluted. Everything I produced in Blender could be drawn in Adobe Illustrator, with actual reference close at hand, but how often do you get the chance to learn something from scratch? The Blender community provides great documentation, and every time I hit a wall I could pretty much count on there being a video tutorial to walk me through my issues. Thanks to BlendertutsNewbies.com in particular, Kernon Dillon is super good at relating modeling techniques and knows the software inside and out.

If you know me you know that 3D graphics are not a big deal to me, as a rule I’m less likely to enjoy a movie if it is over the top with CGI. That said, 3D is in its embryonic stage, and the merging of live action with 3D is far from seamless or believable in many cases. It is time consuming to produce, and resource-draining to run (Blender crashed at least a dozen times rendering small parts for Corona on my meager MacBook). BUT it is super handy when you are recreating materials using different kinds of lighting and deciding how they might best reflect light or cast a shadow. The software is getting better by leaps and bounds, and already you can see that big cheeses like Adobe are taking notice.

This illustration is on the market. Pricing is, as always, dependent on context. Different licensing = different pricing. Let me know if you have a special use case, I would be glad to accommodate. Enjoy!

Tags: blender 3d, corona typewriter, vector illustration
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Solaris Massage

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

If you are ever in Kansas City Missouri (I can’t really vouch for the Kansas side of it, but the Missouri side is awesome…) and you’re feeling a little tense, you should check out Solaris Massage in downtown KC! They offer all kinds of relaxation aid and fix-you-up services.. and are good friends with Scottfitness, an awesome 24hour gym located in the vicinity.

I recently had the pleasure of working with owner Kip Ludwig on creating a fresh logo for her business. She wanted to keep some aspects of her old logo without losing the punch of a fresh design (a woodblock print feel, and other visual elements representative of her business)… The result is eye-catching! I’ll be posting some process pics in the near future… stay tuned

Tags: branding and Identity, logo design, vector illustration
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Studio Sketch Lounge

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Concept Logo, AI CS3. Peter Demaria ©2009

Got this random email about a design contest and gave it a whirl, concept was a logo for a start-up called ‘studio lounge’ (they promptly changed their name too sketch lounge a week later… hmmm). Presumably the start-up was a production company that created applications for mobile phones.

At any rate, I didn’t submit the design because the contest seemed a little sketchy, but the illustration came out pretty sweet! So sweet I decided to use it as a background for the ‘blurb’ section on my home-page…