First blueprint sketch of the Saw Shark!

While taking a break from my design job, figuring out the marketing strategy to launching my toy business and cranking out a monthly canvas I found some time to push ahead with a compatriot for good ol' Captain QUINT...

...I know it's not much right now, but the design will be prototyped out, just like QUINT - and similarly documented, so y'all can follow right along!

I still don't have a name for this one yet, though, I am scouring through some old large-fish-predator type VHS (remember those) tapes for some form of mental spark!

Troublefish got a face lift!

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Troublefish just received a new online look!
Come Ye All - and check it out: www.troublefish.com.

Along with the new skin comes some new content on the "famous" Captain QUINT; everything from color variations, a brief backstory, and the much anticipated "making of..."

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram also got themselves an appearance update...

Oh yes, there is also a nifty mobile version so you can check in "on the go".

Sneak peek from Troublefish

While on location in the Bahamas (see picture) I've been doing a bit of research on some of the resident marine wildlife as inspiration for the next shark concept to join Capt. QUINT in his retro-tech nautical world...

 

...introducing, the Smalltooth Sawshark of the Caribbean.



Capt. QUINT - a catalogue of camouflage

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... prepare to be amazed! I give you the wondrous catalogue of camouflage of Capt. QUINT! Similar to the turbo props of days gone by, fuselages were painted in a variety of colors and patterns to blend in with different terrains.

Though I have a story in the works (in collaboration with fiction writer, Michael Ard-Kelly)... though, for now, I'll let the images do the talking...

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Capt. QUINT - the finished prototype!

Behold and read on in awe!

The long-awaited and much-anticipated Capt. QUINT one-of-a-kind, hand-made, blood-sweat-and-tears (with the occasional rage and denial) prototype is finally complete in all its fantastic glory!

Getting to this stage was not a simple task - I'm pretty sure that I had to go through every step at least twice - if it wasn't due to equipment failure or uncontrollable weather issues, most mishaps could be chalked up to human error (usually due to severe sleep depravation).

It took me the better part of 6 months to reach this stage (and almost $2000) but well worth the journey...

To recap the sequence just check out my earlier entries:

Cocktail napkin doodle (not recorded in this blog)

Red pencil blue-print mock-up (see last image in this here entry)

3D digital sculpt (there were multiple iterations for this stage)

A few rapid prototypes (3D low resolution print outs from the STL - digital sculpts)

Full color rendering

High resolution prototype:
rapid prototype with high build filler, sanded smooth and base coat applied

Painted prototype (air brush and spray paint)

Texture mapped 3D digital sculpt

(not yet blogged about) clear hard plastic stand concept - shown here in silver - and initial package design.

Capt.QUINT - in color!

Here's a sneak peek at a "promotional poster" that I've been working on for some good old fashioned marketing and PR.

It's a digital (Photoshop) illustration at this point that I'm looking on doing a limited "artist proof" fine art print set and ultimately a sizeable (4x3 foot or larger) acrylic one-off painting on canvas.

It's airbrush time!

The year was 1999 the last time this equipment had seen the light of day. The paints are new (the ones from back in the day had transformed into oddly shaped super-balls), the compressor idles smoothly, the hose is air-tight and the brush is still calibrated - other than the very likely potential of grave user error the painting of my one and only prototype (see unpainted sculpt here) should turn out flawless!

I'll be doing a whole lot of practicing today...