Product Design: From 3D Prototyping to 2D Sketching
Photograph Underlays
A course by Reid Schlegel , Industrial Designer
About the video: Photograph Underlays
Overview
“Using your rough prototypes as underlays, you will begin to create your page composition, focusing on which views are necessary in order to tell the complete story of the concept. ”
In this video lesson Reid Schlegel addresses the topic: Photograph Underlays, which is part of the Domestika online course: Product Design: From 3D Prototyping to 2D Sketching. Bring your ideas to life with a 5D approach to product design that combines a 3D prototype and 2D sketches to enhance color, material, and finish.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Photograph Underlays In the previous lesson, we learned to make our Frankenstein prototypes out of discovered parts, clay, and using the techniques we used in our previous models. In this lesson, we'll learn how to take our models, use them as photographic underlays in SketchBook Pro to do our final render. Before we get to that, I want to discuss what I consider to be a good page composition. You must think about a few things when laying your page out and that'll inform how we photograph our models. Before working on our page composition, let's decide what we'll sketch in SketchBook Pro....”
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Course summary for: Product Design: From 3D Prototyping to 2D Sketching
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Category
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Software
Autodesk Sketchbook Pro -
Areas
3D Modeling, Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Product Design, Drawing, Product Design

Reid Schlegel
A course by Reid Schlegel
Reid Schlegel is an industrial designer based in NYC. He believes that the purpose of his career is to consistently improve the human experience through design, finding the perfect balance between creativity and engineering. He found industrial design through his passion for solving problems through artistic means, working between both 2D and 3D.
For Reid it’s important to teach the power of design — a passion he fulfills as a professor of process drawing and digital presentation at The New School at Parsons. He has worked for leading creative and design consultancy firms Frog Design, and Smart Design, and is currently a director of industrial design at HUGE. Reid also showcases his work and shares design content with over 130K Instagram followers.
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