80.1 v5

After three and a half years, I have finally completed my "Metal Fear" project. Since the last update in February 2022, I have added descriptions for four additional vehicle concepts and the logo for the "Metal Fear" paramilitary group.

"Dance Rivals: Rhythm Resonance" is a groundbreaking dance battle video game where players engage in 1:1 dance-offs, inspired by Tekken's gameplay mechanics.

Taking the next evolutionary step with more styled 3D SVG models. This is the last phase before doing large-scale projects with this technology.

I finally returned to 3D SVG. To be honest, I was planning to give up on this technology, but it helped me warm up to JavaScript, and now I can do impressive things with it.

The "Status Grid" is a graphical tool to track and visualize the status of project artifacts. The design of the status grid follows the "less is more" principle.

I decided to do a CD cover design because all other ideas would accompany too much work at the moment. For saving time, I reused material from past projects.

This page contains several experiments that I did with Zdog.js. Zdog is a 3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG by Dave Desandro. Documentation can be found here: Zdog.js.

The Hexapod is a 1st generation multi-legged moving apparatus which serves as an All-Terrain Armed Troop Transporter (AT-ATT MK1). It is used for tactical defense operations on difficult terrain.

Turtok is a 2nd generation chain-driven Autonomous Multi-Terrain Tactical Combat Vehicle (A-MT-TCV MK2) with a dual-monolithic body structure and extreme firepower.

The Stalker is an All-Terrain Armed Scout (AT-AS) lightweight, bipedal moving apparatus. It is used for reconnaissance ground operations on difficult terrain.

In 1915, the US Patent Office granted John R. Van Wormer, a toy manufacturer from Ohio, USA, a patent for his waxed cardboard milk carton. Particularly, his invention addressed containers made of paper.

Drops of Life is a tiny collection of 9 voxel concept artworks that I made on a daily basis between October 29th and November 6th, 2021.

Calmness is the 2nd entry of the Floating Islands collection. This artwork represents a calm and peaceful place in the sky. This rocky island in the clouds is covered with dense ground vegetation.

It is not easy to create realistic grass on complex surfaces [1] inside MagicaVoxel without using 3rd party shaders. However, there are techniques that can be very helpful to support the manual process.

...work, buy, consume, die, inform, feed, control, feed... this is a design reload of my 1st try to adapt the original slogan and concept design of The Designers Republic from Sheffield, UK.

A proverbial "Schubumkehr (thrust reversal)" was necessary to proceed with this project. A good candidate for this project reload was the experimental project "Detonator."

Three years after the first ideas popped for this project, I had a plan for a concept for designing the levels. References to old-school sprite-based games are very helpful, and by the way, why the hell...

Within the Mech Warrior games, gamers take control of a single battle mech and combat other battle mechs, tanks, infantry, and more, from within the cockpit of their machine.

The addressed problems from the 1st try were accompanied by a downscaling and optimization of the original track texture in Photoshop, followed by additional re-modeling in MagicaVoxel.

Solaris was inspired by Stanisław Lem's "Solaris" novel. The plot is about a crew of scientists on a research station who attempt to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence, which takes...

Work, buy, consume, die... WTF is that? This is an anti-consumerism slogan from tDR. The Designers Republic (also tDR, and styled as The Designers Republic™) is a British graphic design studio...

This was the first and last time I participated in a professional industrial design competition. I designed this concept in May 2012 for the Michelin Challenge Design.

Hello everyone, I'm Martin aka DocMcFly. My background is 3D CAD industrial design and engineering. I'm a hobbyist concept designer and I do voxel art since 2018. I'm influenced by 90's video game pop art. From the design perspective I follow the principle of minimalism. I don't have a specific roadmap for my projects. I often experiment with different tools and techniques. I run the website '8ty.one' that features my projects in concept & graphic design; and coding. My works can contain trace elements of NSFW. And by the way I am an adult and I don't censor myself, especially not in regard to my opinions. However, I'm an open-minded individual and open for other perspectives. Nice to meet you.

PRIME | VG CONCEPTS

3D JUMP'N'RUN | 3D SVG | 8-BIT LABS | DROPS OF LIFE | FLOATING ISLANDS | MECH WARRIOR | METAL FEAR | MILO | SCHUBUMKEHR | SOLARIS | STATUS GRID

8-BIT RETRO | CINEMATICS | FEMTROID | MOONWALKER | PIXEL LEVEL | PUMPKING | SOCIAL MEDIA TRANSFORMERS | TURBINEPUNK

Tips

ASYMMETRY | DOODLE | MODULARITY | PROTOTYPING | READABILITY

TUTORIALS

Grass[vox]

BLUESKY | CHARACTER AI | CODEPEN | NEOCITIES | PIXIV

Android Arts | Artmong | CSS ZEN Garden #143 | Ephtracy | Eye on Design | Gareth Washere | Generative Artistry | LOSPEC | Markos R. Kay | Qi Sheng Luo | Romy Ramlee | Shichigoro | Unwinnable | Wait But Why | Wait but why | Xa on the moon | Y2K Aesthetic Institute | Zdog

[?] Are you a pro concept artist?

No, I'm a hobbyist.

[?] Do you take commissions?

Not at the moment.

[?] Wanna join our dope NFT project?

WTF!? No!

[?] Can I use your stuff to train my AI algorithm?

STFU!

[?] Do you use AI tools?

Partly, I use ChatGPT4 for data analysis, grammar/translation but I don't use AI backed image generation for concpets or designs.

[?] Are you open for collaborations?

It depends, however I like to participate on community projects.

[?] What 3D tools do you use?

Moi3D, SolidEdge, MagicaVoxel, Nomad and in rare cases Blender.

[?] Where do you want to go?

The BACKLOG gives a small hint on my future projects.

[?] Why don't you focus on one style?

I don't want to become an expert for one specific style. I love to try out new things. This can derive a new perspective on a topic that I'm working on.

[?] Do you use references?

Generally, I don't use them. I don't want to copy others, I want to create something new but if I discover an interesting detail I try to adopt.

[?] Do you know good books on concept design?

I like "Designing Design" by Japanese designer Kenya Hara for layouting. I like "Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams" in regard to industrial design. I recommend to check the 10 Design Principles by Dieter Rams.

[?] Why don't you use large pics on your landing page?

Less is more. I prefer a fast loading page while trying to avoid white spaces and meaningless big pictures.

[?] Why do you use Japanese characters on your landing page?

This is part of the aesthetics of this site, I'm a fan of the Japanese internet pop culture.

[?] Do you speak Japanese?

I don't, ChatGPT 4 helped me to translate texts for this site from English to Japanese.

[?] What is TurbinePunk?

Turbinepunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that incorporates retro-futuristic technology and aesthetics inspired by 20th-century turbine-powered machinery. It is my favourite BACKLOG project and I will release more concept designs on this topic soon.

[?] How to contact you?

Via Discord -> _docmcfly_

[?] What about data privacy?

This website doesn't track visitors or collect user data. Zero data collection = zero problems.

[?] Can I use your content?

Okay, but before you are doing so please check the COPYRIGHT section.

My content is under copyright according to CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. You must not use the material for commercial purposes. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the this site if you repost the material. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.