Pupple is a concept car I designed when I was 14, winning the Outstanding Design Award in the 2008 Michelin Challenge Design. It was selected out of hundreds of international entrants to be displayed at the North American International Auto Show. The theme of the contest was safety. To achieve this, the Pupple suspends passengers inside a gimballed sphere which rotates so that external forces are least likely to cause injury. Information about the outside world is relayed through a system of cameras and screens.

The 3D model was created in Autodesk 3DS Max.

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Software

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows

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Camera

Canon EOS 5D

Aperture

f/5.0

Shutter

1/30 s

ISO

ISO 200

Software

Adobe Photoshop CS Macintosh

Date

2007-07-16 12:11:20

1 Original 3DS Max model

1.1 First version

I made this in 3DS Max and then rendered it in Mental Ray and made a background in Photoshop.

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Software

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh

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Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh

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Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh

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1.2 Second version

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Software

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows

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Software

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows

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Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows

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Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows

2 Second 3DS Max model

The second version has a notably different door but the rest is roughly the same.

The first two images in this blog post also show the second version, and here are two more infographics I prepared.

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Software

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows

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Software

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows