I like your colors and shapes. With the wasp I feel like it needs something with the legs in the form of a weapon or another visible weapon on its body aside from the stinger. But, that's probably just me. I like the giant cannon on the other one, it's comming along nicely.
The antlion looks great! I think the front cannon (the big trapezoid shape) could use a little refining. It took me a moment to read it as a cannon. The head and body look good and I like the colors you went with. The wasp also looks good but the different color lines are a little confusing. Maybe thin them down to unify the big shapes?
I like your simple vector shapes. It does make things flat, but you said you are still working on it, so I am excited to see what you do. I love the colors and shape of the Ant Lion. Not sure how I feel about the cannon. I think you have the right idea to put it there, but I am not sure how it connects. A pivoting gear at the base it might help. You hornet is cool too! I know that the class last week talked about wing structure and if the wings are they strong enough. I think you wings need a little more support, but you are in the right direction. The jets on the black look like they are taped on, some kind of support would be helpful there too. However great designs and I am looking forward to you final products!
I'm interested to see the final rendered version! I feel like the shapes could use some love. They're fun and stylized, which is great, but I feel like if you spent some time studying mechanical objects in the real world and pulling some influences in from there, you could use your current shapes as the basis for something really spectacular. It might be worth it to go and sketch some construction equipment, or wander around a parking lot sketching car shapes and parts. You don't have to be a mechanic to start to get a feel for what gives a mechanical shape rhyme and reason. Part of the difficulty with this project is that we are adapting tiny structures to bear enormous amounts of weight. Bugs don't weigh several tons the way they do in the book in real life. Their bodies aren't built for it. What changes would need to be made in the structure to bear weight? What structures do engineers use to accomplish that purpose? How does metal/plastic paneling work on a car, an earth mover, a jet? As you educate your imagination with these ideas, your creations will become more believable
I like your colors and shapes. With the wasp I feel like it needs something with the legs in the form of a weapon or another visible weapon on its body aside from the stinger. But, that's probably just me. I like the giant cannon on the other one, it's comming along nicely.
ReplyDeleteThe antlion looks great! I think the front cannon (the big trapezoid shape) could use a little refining. It took me a moment to read it as a cannon. The head and body look good and I like the colors you went with. The wasp also looks good but the different color lines are a little confusing. Maybe thin them down to unify the big shapes?
ReplyDeleteI like your simple vector shapes. It does make things flat, but you said you are still working on it, so I am excited to see what you do. I love the colors and shape of the Ant Lion. Not sure how I feel about the cannon. I think you have the right idea to put it there, but I am not sure how it connects. A pivoting gear at the base it might help. You hornet is cool too! I know that the class last week talked about wing structure and if the wings are they strong enough. I think you wings need a little more support, but you are in the right direction. The jets on the black look like they are taped on, some kind of support would be helpful there too. However great designs and I am looking forward to you final products!
ReplyDeleteI'm interested to see the final rendered version! I feel like the shapes could use some love. They're fun and stylized, which is great, but I feel like if you spent some time studying mechanical objects in the real world and pulling some influences in from there, you could use your current shapes as the basis for something really spectacular. It might be worth it to go and sketch some construction equipment, or wander around a parking lot sketching car shapes and parts. You don't have to be a mechanic to start to get a feel for what gives a mechanical shape rhyme and reason. Part of the difficulty with this project is that we are adapting tiny structures to bear enormous amounts of weight. Bugs don't weigh several tons the way they do in the book in real life. Their bodies aren't built for it. What changes would need to be made in the structure to bear weight? What structures do engineers use to accomplish that purpose? How does metal/plastic paneling work on a car, an earth mover, a jet? As you educate your imagination with these ideas, your creations will become more believable
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