I got a bit more work done on my screen-printing design. I did the two knobs above first and then I thought I’d move past components and try something bigger. I decided my imaginary modular needed a keyboard connected to it. I wanted it to actually be a sweet looking hex touchplate inspired partly by the upper controls of the Buchla Marimba Lumina and partly inspired by the amazing papercraft work of Dan McPharlin, who in this picture is obviously also inspired by the Marimba Lumina.
I had a hell of a time getting the hex touch-plate section to look correct in perspective. Where I ultimately left it was a compromise and it still doesn’t look very good to me. Before I finish the complete design I will have to fix the proportions of the Hex-plate. The keyboard body is based off of a Roland System 100 keyboard.
I still think it looks like a rad melding of two kinds of synths but it still needs tweaking to really hit the concept home.
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5 responses to “Day 181 – More Parts To The Imaginary Modular”
To get the correct perspective you can create the basic shapes in Google SketchUp, maneuver it into the the desired view and import it as reference.
Ah! I’ve never used google skecth-up. It did occur to me as I was creating it that I wished I was working in 3D. Thanks Dean!
2 words: BAD ASS.
Three words: super bad ass! My thoughts on the hex perspective are to use a method that I often employ when doing vector work, take the bottom edge of your gray “faceplate” and duplicate it then drag it down to the top of your hex buttons and make sure they line up perfectly with that, then do the same for the bottom edge of the hex buttons and so on and so on for all the white shapes that create the hex surface. This is hard to explain… The only reason I’m saying to use the bottom edge of your faceplate is because I think that’s the part that the viewer naturally wants everything else to line up to. Hopefully this made a tiny bit of sense and helped you. I know you’ll get it either way, this is just a short cut I use.
Awesome work!
Thanks for the advice Jared! I should have done that. There is definitely a discrepancy between the upper half of my faceplate and the bottom half. I should have lined them up but I kept getting tripped up by the thought that its a an ultra-wide lens and how much larger things should be closer to the camera. If I had done some preliminary measurements I probably would have been able to recognize my problem.
I couldn’t get myself to continue work on this tonight but I am working on something else (vector art) which is cracking me up at the moment. Thanks for the kind words though.
You too RabbitEars! Until tomorrow.