A nice 3D rendering is very precise and easy to refresh for design changes, but it just doesn’t have the soul that comes from someone spending a lot of time getting it right like this.
If you like cutaway artwork – Google the name “David Kimble”. He is a master illustrator who got his start many years ago doing a cutaway of the “Enterprise” for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry:
Note that in this cutaway, things look literally “cut-away” meaning that if a wall is cut then you can only see the next object behind that wall, and you see the exact edges where the wall was cut.
David later evolved a style of ghosting the cuts such that you can simultaneously see the outer skin, and what’s in the next chamber, and even what is beyond that… For example, on a car you might be looking at a wheel and tire in the outer view but also be able to look right through the tire treads at the suspension design, and beyond the suspension see the turbocharger mounted on the engine’s exhaust manifold.
David uses airbrushing on a clear mylar sheet and paints on both sides of the sheet to get the ghosting effect. Sometimes he even uses several sheets to get the effects he needs, but the end results are true works of art. You can’t imagine the planning it takes to figure out what angle to view to expose maximum information, and to figure out where to make the cuts, all the time keeping all the components in their correct locations and alignments relative to each other. AND – he does this (or at least he used to when I worked with him briefly 20 years ago) all in his head without the benefit of a 3-D Cad-Cam computer to keep it all straight. If he’s not using a computer now then he’s a masochist, but either way he is a genius.
*sigh*
Brings back old fantasies. (Not the ones about Christina Hendricks.)
A nice 3D rendering is very precise and easy to refresh for design changes, but it just doesn’t have the soul that comes from someone spending a lot of time getting it right like this.
Jim
If you like cutaway artwork – Google the name “David Kimble”. He is a master illustrator who got his start many years ago doing a cutaway of the “Enterprise” for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry:
http://www.khulsey.com/dk_star-trek_starship-enterprise.html
Note that in this cutaway, things look literally “cut-away” meaning that if a wall is cut then you can only see the next object behind that wall, and you see the exact edges where the wall was cut.
David later evolved a style of ghosting the cuts such that you can simultaneously see the outer skin, and what’s in the next chamber, and even what is beyond that… For example, on a car you might be looking at a wheel and tire in the outer view but also be able to look right through the tire treads at the suspension design, and beyond the suspension see the turbocharger mounted on the engine’s exhaust manifold.
David uses airbrushing on a clear mylar sheet and paints on both sides of the sheet to get the ghosting effect. Sometimes he even uses several sheets to get the effects he needs, but the end results are true works of art. You can’t imagine the planning it takes to figure out what angle to view to expose maximum information, and to figure out where to make the cuts, all the time keeping all the components in their correct locations and alignments relative to each other. AND – he does this (or at least he used to when I worked with him briefly 20 years ago) all in his head without the benefit of a 3-D Cad-Cam computer to keep it all straight. If he’s not using a computer now then he’s a masochist, but either way he is a genius.