New Concept work

Here are some new concept work I have done for the project. Most of it are concepts to final designs of the restaurant.

These restaurants, which are the close to the final designs are loosely based on an restaurant I found during research. I posted a picture of this restaurant in an earlier blog. I like how these arches make it look like a rocket taking off. It should look really good when fully modeled.

Here are some concepts for the counter stools. They use a lot of open scaffolding and metal work in googie architecture, so I decided to make the legs look like scaffolding.

Here is the counter. It has shelves not much else to say.

Here is the coloured version of the restaurant. I noticed that they use a lot of white and a lot of chrome. The other colours are just to brighten it up.

These are abandoned concepts for the restaurant. I felt that it was too simple and looked too much like a house. The sign however I liked very much.

Concept work

These are some concept sketches I did at the weekend of the restaurant and the sign. As you can see I also couldn't resist doing some sketches of the character as well.

New Idea

Since my last big idea was meet with a rather luke-warm response and since we are rapidly running out of time, whilst my team mates are away in Barcelona, I decided to have a brain storming session, and I think I have have come up with a good idea.

The year is 1954, just outside of California. Aunt Pearl's diner is the busiest cafe on the interstate. Travellers from all over would stop for some good food and the friendliest service. It's the happiest restaurant you will ever see. But over the years, less and less people came and eventually the place was boarded up and abandoned. Time has not been kind. Chairs and tables broken, glass smashed and leftover food just rotting away.

This once joyful place has been left to rot and die, with only the flickering of a broken neon sign as a sign of what this place once was.

I felt that having a restaurant that was once a happy place, but is now rundown would be on one-hand fun to do, but on the other sad and poignant.

I have done some concept art to illustrate my point below.

Early Concept

These are some early concept work I did recently, trying to figure out the layouts and trying to design props in the Googie style.

Early Ideas

The group decided last week that each member would go away and come up with their own ideas and concepts. After a little bit of thinking I came up with this idea, a bar fight where both the fighters are invisible. The only way you can tell that the fighters are they is by the objects they pick up and crash into. That way the group could produce an interesting character piece without having to actually model or rig any characters. I felt that this was a good idea and drew up some rough storyboards. I haven't placed the whole storyboard up here, because it is probably going to change.