meat grinder

recently started a video game project... scifi first person shooter called meat grinder. its just started up in early concept phase. this is some of the stuff ive done so far...

anybody wanna help out, email me! we r especially in need of character designers and level designers...

form/style study, 3/5/10

created a form by putting down random lines... rendered it out a bit... trying to get less of a painterly style and more of a rendering style out of this brush.... same brush i used in the previous post....

my goal.. have better understanding of form, be better at style.. trans majors seem to have those things down.. time to step it up...

robot, 2/28/10

just spent the evening with a sketching group.. 'Studio L'... earlier they told me to work the color some more... this was the result after i got home and added a couple quick filters... i should also add some more detail but o well... next time... gotta keep practicing....



my "setup" ;)

back in action!

abstract form studies... goin back to hand sketches... feels really weird and fun at the same time... i like this technique... brush pen/ballpoint. lately ive been interested in zaha hadid's parametricist forms.... fun fun fun....

new coroflot portfolio!

i just uploaded some of my work up on coroflot these past couple days. its already been getting some pretty good feedback so far! its about time i put myself out there... ahh i just keep wishing i had more polished work to show off...

i really feel like im part of the new generation of designers now... especially seeing how much my sketch techniques differ from the old school designers... i learned those old school techniques from teachers, too... just that its different now that we're on the same playing field.

as part of the new generation i guess its my responsibility to push for new and better ways to design... wish me luck... and hope i dont starve to death cuz of my idealistic nature~

view my portfolio:
coroflot.com/nelsonwah

sketchbook stuff

back to pencil on paper.... feel like i gotta take a break from the tablet... after going totally digital last term...






and these were from before the term that i guess i never posted...

turkey, 12/14/09

quick photo study... i think i lost some of my painting skills these past several wks with finals and all -_-;;... but still learning... trying to get back into it...

done with finals!

this is my product 2 final.. the project turned out pretty well i think... want to come back to it later on to do the environments...

^ final presentation model 

^ this was the other environment i was working on for the environment design class.... slowly getting better with details....

robots

had my final for robotics class 2day...

black is my favorite color...

im starting to look more like a product designer...

my model rendered in bunkspeed hypershot.... my first time using this software... pretty sweet!

wut i like about my design.... it looks nice from every angle ;)

moretta

an update on my concept fashion hotel.... my solidworks model... a clothing rack... for the shopping experience... 

starting ideations for interior concepts...

itll b something in between venetian carnival and modern style.... so many things ive never done b4... its sink or swim time!

wip

this week's environment hw... gotta detail and refine this for next wk... i dunno why i have trouble with details -_-;;

need to start practicing this on my own after the term ends.... 

environment color studies...

 

these were for this wk's hw for the environment class.. color studies... 

a color comp i started but didnt get around to refining... i feel like my thumbs are always better than my refinements in a way... i guess i really need to improve my detailing skills...

environment thumbs

this was our first hw assignment for james paick's environment design class at concept design academy. pretty fun class... makes me wanna switch over to entertainment hahaha....

the last 3 thumbs are sparth master copies... the rest are my own.

hotel concepts, fall09 wk1

designing hotels this term for my product studio class. heres some of this week's blue sky concept sketches..

i call this one waterfall city... concept was a cavernous type living environment that makes u feel like u are standing underneath a waterfall. waterfalls could serve as partitions separating indoor spaces, also can diffuse open spaces to feel more intimate.

secret garden.. concept was a romantic intimate environment. the space is supposed to give you the experience of feeling like you are the only two people in the world.

base, 9/2/09

i worked on this design on and off this wk... kept making changes to it... it started off as an interior at first then turned into an outdoor shot... then i made it evening instead of daytime... pretty fun just playing around with it, but got sick of working on the same piece so i just called it finished...

dwell, 8/23/09

this started off as one of those generic sci-fi environment compositions but then i worked the architecture a bit and it came out slightly less generic sci-fi...

interior sketch, 8/20/09

i originally did a bunch of quick interior compositions for my boat... but then wasnt really sure if it would go well with the exterior so i left it out.. i came back and reworked this one a bit in color... tho it looks like i still need to figure out a better way to do color...

identity crisis??

actually i used to b afraid of trans design... i had some bad experiences with car design wen i first started out. did this for a design competition... we'll see how it goes... i wasnt too sure wut theyre looking for... but it was a good warm-up project b4 fall term starts. 3 more weeks!

meteora, 7/1/09

i was inspired after looking at exodyssey by steambot studios.. trying out some new photoshop techniques that ive seen lots of people using lately. practicing with mountains again....