While many graphic designers prefer Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, avid motorcycle fan and graphic designer Gareth Fowler uses Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects to create some kickass concept 3D animations inspired by engines. Though his initial foray into Cinema 4D mostly consisted of static 3D images, his love of GIFs led him to experiment with his own animations and ‘virtual’ mechanical engineering experiments: Find more of Gareth’s animations on both his Instagram page and Tumblr blog. For the rest of his portfolio, be sure to check out his webpage, where he showcases his work as a graphic artist with some awesome drawings, logos, and much more.
As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack. What We’re Reading This Week: As Bad as WeWork Is, It Could Get Even Worse Ignore…
As if Xometry’s Instant Quote Engine and integrated instant quoting add-in for SOLIDWORKS weren’t enough, the rascals buckin’ the manufacturing trends at Xometry have introduced a finishing service to completely centralize your design-to-manufacturing needs. How does this help you? Ok, so you have a design, and parts in that design, that needs to be manufactured. From Xometry, you can source and secure manufacturing, and now, source and secure finishing. Typically, these processes don’t all happen in one place, but Xometry is making that happen. Plus, if you have a manufacturing vendor you just adore and source a finishing vendor worthy of high fives, you can connect them on the Xometry…
If you’ve ever accidentally let go of a helium-filled balloon as a kid and watched it slowly float into the sky, chances are you’ve also wondered where it goes. Does it float past the point of no return and into space, thereby giving an extra-terrestrial child the joy of finding a free balloon? Now that we’re older, we all know the air inside a balloon escapes long before it can exit the Earth’s atmosphere; dropping the empty rubber husk back to the ground just like your childhood hopes and dreams. Using the same principle, the guys at Garage 54 have taken a large weather balloon, strapped a scale model of…
Even though it’s just as important as eating three square meals a day, not everyone practices proper dental care. On a busy day, most folks would just quickly brush their teeth (or forget to altogether) before hopping in a car and driving to work—much to the bummer of their coworkers. Encompass was made to give those with less than stellar dental hygiene their quick and proper toothbrush fix before taking on the rest of the day. By putting the J-shaped toothbrush in both halves of your mouth, you can effectively clean all your chompers in just 20 seconds, according to the company. The secret lies in the inflating bladder and…
Setting off toward the sun, stilting his was down the silted, ash lined maze of a murky mountainside trial, Fitz McBunkle… charged. Though his forearms were lined with blades and his single eye ablaze, it was a slight hesitation in his smirk, a mis-step and a burp, that caused one stilt to split and skewer all these links. Rudy Siswanto – Cartoonish? Yes, but no. Bright, bold colors with details and action that just make you want to keep exploring every image. Wildlife Photo of the Year – Fox vs Marmot. Pretty much sums it up. See this and all the photos from the pros and youth. White Tower -…