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Batmobile Design Competition: WINNER!
Congratulations to Paul Denton for winning the Batmobile Design Competition! Paul's rendering, seen above, captures that "bad ass" feel of the Dark Knight: it's moody, menacing, and full of drama. ...
CDF's Batmobile Design Contest
CarDesignFetish knows that you like cool cars. We also know that you like to sketch cool cars. What happens when you put the two together? A really cool design contest, that's what!
We're...
Dwayne Vance: Design and Render Vehicles Online Course...
Superstar Designer/Artist (and friend of CDF) Dwayne Vance is hosting an online class for rendering vehicles in Photoshop and Painter. This Thursday, March 3rd at 2PM EST (11PST) Dwayne will be hosting...
Sketch P*rn: February Edition
February is over, and that means more awesome sketches were released in the month. Point your eyeballs here for great digital work from Volkswagen, pencil sketches from Renault, sketches over photos...
How to Make Cute Cars
Cars that share the general traits of a baby’s face trigger the ‘Isn’t it cute’ response in consumers.
The Fiat 500 is the latest in a long line of "cute cars." So what is it about cars...
Category : Fetishing, Holiday Gift Guide, Product Design
This Interactive Recreational Entertainment Vessel (iREV) is a pontoon with a specific purpose. 10 people can sit around the central low smoke charcoal grill or a number of other modules that can replace it. This is quite the floating bar but at 24g’s you can buy one hell of a pontoon boat. Still it is a pretty cool product for floating around with friends. It is also environmentally friendly with 45% reclaimed material, 80% recyclable and it is made in America.
Category : Fetishing
I am sure by now you have all seen the new Dyson Fan. I look at it as inspiring to see someone take a mundane product and give it new high style life with some new beneficial features. Other people have scoffed at its high price and unneeded place in the market.
Oh well, what this post is about is the hilarious “Coretoon” form Core 77 making a spoof out of Dyson’s recent design. After seeing this I was trying to think of how to correlate this to the auto industry. Of course GM came to mind with their so called “NEW” Gm changing the way for the future.
Perhaps Dyson has created the cure all product? Who knows but enjoy the jokes…
Thanks Core 77 for creating this series.
Category : tools
Anyone with an iPhone has probably downloaded one or two (or 8, in my case) sketching apps. Question: What do most of them have in common? Answer: They’re pretty bare-bones and basic, and do little to separate me from sketching on a sticky note. In fact, I haven’t found any real reason to sketch on the iPhone’s capacitive touch screen save for scribing in a reminder to buy milk and cucumbers on the way home.
I’ve used SketchBook Pro in the past, so when I read that Autodesk was releasing an iPhone version of the popular software I quickly had my interest piqued. But, could it make me reconsider my i-sketching habits?
Category : Design, Fetishing, Holiday Gift Guide, Production Car
Automoblox is kicking off the holiday season shopping rush with two new series. The first is a heavy duty pick up with what looks like chrome rocker panels straight from the nineties. This is also a new material finish for the Automoblox line. Next up is a series of Hot Rods. Hell yeah!! These cars keep getting more and more detailed with every new model. These hot rods will make a killer addition to the everyday drivers you already purchased.
If that wasn’t enough they are even going to make a Halo package consisting of the Heavy duty truck towing a new Hot Rod. Sign me up!
I know my count is up to 6 with a mixture of full size and minis combined into one long ass limo thingy. These vehicles are a lot of fun for kids and adults. Be sure to be ready when these get released for the holiday season.
Thanks to Autoblog for the announcement and a slew of pics. Check them out !!
Admit it, we’ve been blessed by the internet: Fantasy football, ILoveSketch, Piano Cat. From the University of Singapore comes our latest obsession. PhotoSketch is a new software that creates photo montages based on compilations of images and a basic sketch that the user submits. Using keywords and some rough shapes (and what we are assured is a series of magic tricks) the software scours the images for those that match the keywords best, adjusting lighting and features and splicing out the necessary items. Placing them together over the scene is the last step, from which a montage is the outcome.
Currently available in a downloadable binary test package, the full software — developed by Tao Chen, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, and Shi-Min Hu, and which turned heads at Siggraph Asia recently — aims to be web based to allow for maximum searches of images.
While there are still a few hiccups here and there (no shadows under characters, for instance) the algorithm-based software is actually a fairly solid mix of filters, photo splicing tools, and keyword differentiation.
Download the binary here, or tune in to the PhotoSketch development blog to watch the progress.
Images and video courtesy PhotoSketch team