Apple iCam concept

Apple iCam is a camera concept that no one needs.

Apple iCam concept

The idea is to have a device that attaches to the iPhone, which then allows the user to have a camera with interchangeable lenses. The Apple iCam is a concept by Italian designer Antonio DeRosa that would add interchangeable lenses to the iPhone.

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http://cool3dconcepts.com/apple-icam-concept/

Amazing Photoshop Retouching

Stunning photo retouching by Michael Oswald

Full time, freelance movie poster designer, Michael Oswald has created very unique style. His artwork is a digital process that is best described as photo manipulation. He starts with a photograph, and digitally paints directly on top of the photo. It is a unique process which requires many hours of detailing.

Amazing Photo Retouching by Michael Oswald

Michael transforms the original female subjects into super stylish androids, robot pin-ups and sculptures.

Amazing Photo Retouching by Michael Oswald

Oswald is a true master of Photoshop and his work has been featured in many top art publications including Advanced Photoshop Magazine.

Amazing Photo Retouching by Michael Oswald

Workflow:

The first and most important step is coming up with a concept. I feel the best way to make interesting art is to have a good reason for making it. The next step is finding the right model and setting up a photo shoot. It is important to find the right model for an image and there have even been times when I have traveled to faraway places in order to find them.

Amazing Photo Retouching by Michael Oswald

Amazing Photo Retouching by Michael Oswald

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http://cool3dconcepts.com/amazing-photoshop-retouching/

IKEA Catalog

75% of the Photos are CGI 3d models in IKEA Catalog.

Martin Enthed and his team work in one of the many IKEA companies, IKEA Communications AB. “When it comes to products,” explains Martin, “IKEA of Sweden designs and develops the product range. The global marketing and communication department decides what communication about the range is important to reach the consumers. We then create concepts and communication ideas, which we produce in different ways. We do the assembly instructions you all know so well! We create product images, labels, the IKEA catalogue, the IKEA.com website, prints for in-package and on-package etc. We do most of the global communication for IKEA. All the communication we create and produce should ultimately help consumers to understand how IKEA can help them create a better everyday life.”

IKEA Catalog, awesome 3d images

In the summer of 2004, IKEA decided to change the way they produced their product images. They made the first tentative moves toward CG rendered, rather than photographic, images. “We made 8 or 10 quite bad product visualisations by today’s standards,” says Martin, “but it sparked something and we continued to work at it. In the fall of 2006 we first showed a product in the catalogue. The first CG piece of furniture was a chair called “Bertil”.

IKEA Catalog, awesome 3d images

The IKEA team didn’t feel there was anything wrong with traditional photography, quality-wise. Like any company, they just wanted to make things easier for the team to work on - to make the process simpler, cheaper and faster. With traditional photography, you need to have prototype furniture being built in different parts of the world shipped over so it can be photographed. Everything needs to be there on time and it can be logistically difficult, expensive and not that environmental. Then if there are changes everything needs to be re-shot. With CG re-creations of pieces, it removes a lot of this difficulty. However to start with, Martin says, “There was no vision initially to create entire rooms in CG, like we do now. We just wanted to create the individual pieces - the ones you see on white backgrounds on the web.”

IKEA Catalog, awesome 3d images

Making the Transition

When IKEA started to look at creating more than product images in 3D a few years ago, they already had a set look and feel for IKEA pictures. They wanted to keep the sense of reality and the feel of a "lived in" environment when moving over to digital workflow. They didn’t want their customers to see or even more importantly feel any difference. Says Martin, “We understand how important the knowledge of home furnishing is. How homes look, how homes feel, and so on. The experienced photographers at IKEA have been working with the interior designers on re-creating this feel for fifteen to twenty years, some of them. We needed to translate that knowledge over to the 3D artists who were tech-savvy but in some cases coming directly from school. We needed them to understand the kind of feel we wanted the images to convey. It was very hard at the beginning.”

IKEA Catalog, awesome 3d images

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http://cool3dconcepts.com/ikea-catalog-awesome-3d-images/

Milky PinUps

No 3d, just milk, high speed photography and bit of Photoshop.

AurumLight Studio, a London-based conceptual photography business, is making a splash with its fresh take on old pin-up photos. Pouring milk on models.

Milky PinUps, Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz

Photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz, has created a 12 month calendar inspired by 1940′s pin-ups but has added a twist!

Each girl in the calendar isn’t wearing real clothing, but MILK.

Wieczorkiewicz used high-speed cameras to capture milk as it was poured on each model’s body to create the illusion of clothing. Over 200 frames are used to complete each image!

Milky PinUps, Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz

Jaroslav is a Polish photographer that hails from London. He has a Fine Arts background with a degree is Architecture–which taught him how to solve lots of complex problems. That problem solving helped with the founding of this studio: AurumLight. The studio specializes in limited calendars, advertising, and conceptual photography; and they’ve had many campaigns in Europe and the US.
So when we found Jaroslav’s Milk PinUps, we were very intrigued as to how they were done.

Milky PinUps, Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz

The style and look of the photography brings you back to the pin-ups that proliferated in
mid last century, with such iconic stars like of Marylin Monroe, Betty Grable, Jane Russell, Rita Hayworth and countless other timeless beauties.

Milky Pinups, aims at replicating those popular pin-ups of that bygone era, and does so quite convincingly, adding an original element through milk in place of clothes.

Milky PinUps, Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz

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http://cool3dconcepts.com/milky-pinups/

Cool Photos using Paint and Liquid

Awesome Photographs by Iain Crawford

Iain Crawford is a beauty and fashion photographer based in London that has a pretty impressive portfolio. His images are beautiful, colorful, creative and full of style... Some of them have a retro felling while others are modern and contemporary. Among his clients you can find names as Lancome, Max Factor, Givenchy, L'Oreal, Vogue and many other. Iain's work is really a amazing and the images are very eye catching, so take your time to enjoy them.
Photographer Iain Crawford has quite a unique focus when it comes to fashion photography. He paints and peppers the models during the shoot, capturing perfect moments of chaotic color.

Awesome Photographs by Iain Crawford

Awesome Photographs by Iain Crawford

About Iain:

Iain grew up in Africa and Malaysia and developed a passion for photography at an early age. On moving to London, he worked as an account handler for Saatchi & Saatchi but left to pursue his photographic career. After spending several years living and working in New York, he is now based back in London but continues to work internationally.

Awesome Photographs by Iain Crawford

Awesome Photographs by Iain Crawford

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http://cool3dconcepts.com/cool-photos-using-paint-liquid/

Rotor digital camera

Simplified user interface

Charlie Nghiem reimagined simplified user interface with his Rotor digital camera concept.
Getting rid of buttons all together, a stacked cylinder composed of several rotating parts allows
users to choose their settings. When a section is spun, a corresponding line appears on the screen.

Rotor camera concept

To access the features and menus, just drag the thumb on the cylinder are in order to rotate each function. Each cylinder would correspond to a line displayed on the screen.

Rotor camera concept

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http://cool3dconcepts.com/rotor-digital-camera/

Cool Vespa digital camera concept

What would Vespa digital camera look like?

Trying to answer that question are two product designers from Chicago – Rotimi Solola and Cait Miklasz.

They incorporated the design, colors, and sleekness of Vespa scooters into a concept digital camera. A very sophisticated looking camera, to say the least.

Vespa digital camera concept

The translation of one typology to another is excelent.

The body of the camera is curved to make it easy to hold with its sleek and minimalist good looks.

Same colour scheme used in the style of a typical Vespa, the camera is a beautiful teal gray. The lens is positioned such that it resembles the headlights on a Vespa scooter. And the camera also has trademark Vespa text.

Vespa digital camera concept

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http://cool3dconcepts.com/cool-vespa-digital-camera-concept/

Leica X3 camera

Pretty interesting but flawed Leica X3 camera concept

Leica X3 Concept Camera by The Swedish based designer Vincent Sall. Inspired by the monocle, it's something in between iPhone camera and a DSLR camera.

Designer envisions a Leica X3 that is an extremely mobile version of the high-end compact that folds up and communicates with a smartphone to share its images. So basically this is a lovechild that is the size of a lens and transfers the pictures instantly to your smartphone, tablet or Mac via Bluetooth. The camera is automatically turned on when the lens is flipped out and a simple user interface allows you take pictures.

Leica X3 camera concept by Vincent Sall

Every day people around the world take millions of pictures. The modern culture of sharing photos with your friends and loved ones has never been bigger. This project is about filling the gap between big cameras with great image quality and smartphone cameras with limited quality/control.

Leica X3 camera concept by Vincent Sall

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http://cool3dconcepts.com/leica-x3-camera/