ToyotaCaltyDesign:SketchDemo

Curious how the magic happens? I have always been mesmerized watching master marker renderers and sketch artists at work… While visiting Toyota Calty Design Research, i had a chance to see Project Chief Designer, Ian Cartabiano, show us how it’s really done on a huge apple monitor and wacom tablet (he’s old school, and likes having the tablet while seeing the screen, versus those who love the Cintiqs).

So you can see one of my little home videos (one of these days with some combination of time, energy, extra pair of hands, etc i will make proper videos with real editing and maybe even music?) ~ giving you a quick skip through the presentation ~ from initial stages, to some highlights, to a flip back and forth between finished and initial sketches, and the crucial signature!

But honestly, if you want to learn how to sketch cars properly, you should probably go take Ian’s class at Art Center ~ after graduating Art Center, he got pulled right into Toyota and has been there for 11 years… while simultaneously teaching… keep an eye out for his latest exterior design, the 2009 Venza!

原文轉載自…
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/09/toyota_calty_de.php

Toyota’sCaltyDesign:ClayModelling

Yesterday Toyota (for the first time) opened up it’s Calty Design Research doors to a tiny group of journalists (Core77, KCRW/NPR, Architect Magazine, Dwell, Inhabitat, DesignMom, Zaproot, and i was honored to be included in the group)… and as we all know, security and secrecy in the car industry is nearly impenetrable, with design secrets that manage to be kept under wraps for years before the public even gets wind of the concepts, it was an honor (and SO much fun) to get an inside look at Toyota’s studios and their work flow… AND to be able to share it with you!

So first off, my favorite part ~ really it brought out the kindergartner in all of us, get handed a tool, and a HUGE (yes, life size car sized) piece of clay, and are told to go to it. And then sat down at a bench with mini’s to carve away at your own car? Ok so perhaps that only slightly over simplifying it, but i’m sure you can imagine the delight of poking at clay… while assisted by some of the most talented car designer and modelers… who with a quick flip of their wrist and a few slashes with a pairing knife, off fly a few pieces of clay and you’re staring at the dream sportscar you never knew you wanted. Then you see what my unplanned mohawked/finned masterpiece turns out like after more effort and less finesse. Let’s just say we fully understand and were quickly humbled by how skilled these modelers and designer are…

So take a look inside the Toyota Calty Design Research modeling space on the next page, and our experience hands on with the clay!

Faced with this, what would you make? You have half an hour…

They even put our masterpieces into plastic boxes with little plaques…

Their toy car…

My toy car… sculpture was never really my specialty… =)

And for a quick view of a “real” work in progress, here are some nice press shots they provided us with!

原文轉載自:
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/09/toyotas_calty_d.php

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我不知道這是甚麼! 只覺得超酷的!

《說好不准哭》

《說好不准哭》 馬志翔再推新作
去年在金鐘獎贏得最佳導演獎的賽德克族馬志翔，今年再推出新作「說好不准哭」。他說這一部片要獻給一對布農族的小兄弟。

就在去年以“十歲笛娜的願望“榮獲金鐘獎最佳迷你劇集編劇獎之後，馬志翔今年再次推出新片「說好不准哭」。描述兩個就讀小學，同父異母的布農族小兄弟，因為沒有錢繳學費，決定到台北找做工的爸爸的故事。

在某部落小學旁，馬志翔意外看見兩個原住民小兄弟遲遲沒有進學校，經過詢問之後，才知道原來是因為家裡沒錢繳學費，不敢入校門。也就是因為這樣的經驗，引發了他的靈感。透過簡單的故事，希望能夠呈現當今原住民族所面臨包括教育、工作環境的壓力。

「說好不准哭」劇情雖然單純，但深度刻畫原住民族面臨的壓力，發人深省。馬志翔表示，這部戲也將獻給當時所在部落小學門口遲遲沒有踏入校門的小男孩。
2008-05-23 原視新聞網
以上資料摘錄自原住民族電視台新聞網

延伸連結：
『原』力與我同在/馬志翔導演部落格

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日本藝術家 Hina aoyama (蒼山日菜) 的剪紙藝術作品，
剪紙藝術精彩動人。

butterflies, 2007

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CM426 Merlin car by Marijn van der Poll.

一位荷蘭的設計師 Marijn van der Poll (1973)受邀參與荷蘭汽車技術中心的創作展所設計的一款概念車型，CM426。他的設計靈感來自於1966~1974年間由美國競賽汽車俱樂部和加拿大賽車運動委員會聯合舉辦的汽車比賽所頒發的加美挑戰杯大賽的賽車。將空間有限且非對稱的駕駛艙設計於車身中間，並且以雷射切割不鏽鋼板材再於以焊接組成車身結構，接著再將由主辦單位所提供的後置引擎底盤平台結合車身結構，再以鋁製的鈑件包覆全車身，最後加上有如車頂防滾結構之後形成這輛獨一無二的概念車款。Marijn van der Poll 是在2002年於Design Academy Eindhoven 完成這項令人佩服的設計創作。
雖然個人相當讚許這樣實驗性的設計創作，包括在他的網頁裡有更多其他有意思的作品，我還是必須說，若非有獨特的意念或創作表達，我實在認為這不是一輛可以討論”美”的形式的車款，而是一段青春血淚所記錄下的偉大創作，就像畢業創作一樣偉大。

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