Yay! The final part of my Details series is up on the Alias Design website.  Of particular note was that this part in the series was done in the Mac OS X version of Alias! I am pleased as punch to be working natively in Alias on my Mac and have few reasons to keep my Boot Camp partition around now. I look forward to all the projects that lay ahead for this software and it really is a game changer for my process. I plan on having a more in-depth ‘review’ soon!

Look for more tutorials from me in the future, but in the meantime enjoy!

J.

Autodesk recently updated Sketchbook Pro for 2010 (almost whole year early!). I was on the beta team for this one and it was a pleasure working with these guys. They have done an outstanding job refining an already great program. The addition of straight edges and ellipse guides makes the tool a whole lot more useful to me in many ways. It’s maintained it’s simplicity, but gained much of the attraction that sketching in Alias has had for years. Definitely give it a try!

This was a sketch I did during the beta cycle on a particularly rainy Sunday here in Seattle. Enjoy!

As mentioned in an earlier post, I have a fascination with Lego and Star Wars and when the two met, out popped another hobby. For the past few months I’ve been noodling away on a studio scale prop replica of the Millennium Falcon. It dawned on me that I should really document some of the process – especially since my product design background lends itself to an entirely different approach to typical fine scale modeling.

So as not to distract from the content of this blog, I started another one. I’ve been frantically populating it with stuff as to try and make-up for lost time so forgive me if the posts thus far don’t seem very organic.

Enjoy,

J.