At Aviary, we like to ask the hard-hitting questions most journalists shy away from. Most importantly: We can put man on the moon, but we don't have frigging flying cars yet?!
Luckily, we don't just identify the problems - we also solve them.
This time around Aviary's resident industrial designer Meowza has drawn up a plan to unclog the world's highways and put flying metal projectiles in the hands of every man, woman and child.
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We had so much fun playing with industrial car design, that we made another video as well:
Here's another example of Meowza changing an already sleek design by Ben Messmer of our friends at Local Motors.
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These works made heavy use of color adjustments, blend modes, painting, transforming and sourcing.
Kudos to Parliament and Arcade Fire for the musical accompaniments!
Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
BONUS: Here are some Worth1000 concepts for more flying cars!
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Posted by Jay on 2008-03-12 22:27:32
This is simply awesome. Meowza you and Ben have a mojo goin' on. You have raised the bar for fun and transportation smiles :) Love the music, and never mind the typos. You guys rock.
Posted by Dan the Man on 2008-03-13 11:04:25
I do not get the point of the wheel in the very front of the first car. Does it turn into a flying motorcycle? Its still cool.
Posted by Phydeau on 2008-03-13 11:26:24
Quite impressive. This looks like it is going to be awesome. Meowzas redesign of Messmers work is great. I hope that I don't have to wait to long to give this a try myself. Any ETA on this becoming available?
Posted by Joss on 2008-03-13 12:44:35
These flying cars could become possible in not so distant future thanks to Heim Theory. See that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory#Heim.27s_predictions_for_a_quantum_gravity_force and this also: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg18925331.200 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225771.800 /J
Posted by pic_me30 on 2008-03-13 14:19:18
where can i get this aviary software? free to download anywhere?
Posted by RCFE on 2008-03-13 16:31:48
That is really awesome work. Very, very talented! Thanks for posting these videos and the layered work!
Posted by Avi Muchnick on 2008-03-13 19:07:17
They work fine for me - are you certain you have flash / javascript enabled?
Posted by trouble on 2008-03-14 15:15:51
The end result of the second car kinda looks like you just turned it blue & added wheel wells.
Posted by Jack on 2008-03-14 17:11:30
looks cool dude, should enter your work in this competition. www.ibeatyou.com/competitions/v/5
Posted by Efreak on 2008-03-14 17:22:07
Posted by trouble on 2008-03-14 15:15:51
The end result of the second car kinda looks like you just turned it blue & added
wheel wells.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...Besides, they also added the cockpit.
Posted by Mark Abucayon on 2008-07-09 22:30:19
Awesome what can I say its fantastic thou its simple but the idea very creative. Great Job.
Posted by ????? on 2008-12-20 08:35:18
Nice article. One of the more creative articles I have read recently .
Posted by Payday Loan on 2009-03-13 06:17:17
Hmnn…a car plane! Yes it is! A car with the design like an airplane. Such a nice invention. Human did never really get tired of making new inventions. Well…as long as the innovations aid us in our goings-on they are highly accepted. Inventions are at times otherworldly and amazing, and at times very mundane. The U.S. is a land that has a long history of them. Some of America’s most famous inventions include things like bifocals, the polio vaccine, and some controversial ones as well. There have been a few in the last year or two which seem straight out of science fiction. A flying car that gets 35 mpg, which can fold its wings and fit into the average garage, and it goes for about $200,000. There’s also a GPS headset system that mounts directly to a cow’s head-now we can finally find where the beef is. No doubt that the rest of the century will reveal some other astonishing inventions.
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Posted by Zach LeBar on 2008-03-12 20:38:44
really cool stuff guys. um...just a sidepoint, u have some big typos in your intro paragraph. just thought ud like to kno. keep up the great work though guys!