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Man Who "Can't Draw," has "No Design Experience" Creates Stunning Supercar for "Suicide Squad" Movie
Matt McEntegart makes up for his lack of drawing skills in the studio
Earlier we posted that Ironhead Studio got zero credit for creating costumes for Batman v. Superman. Will Matt McEntegart get any credit for creating the Joker's supercar for Suicide Squad, the next movie in the D.C. Universe?
Enter a caption (optional)What's amazing is that the car didn't come with the six-figure price tag you'd expect. That's actually an Infiniti G35 wrapped in an $11,000 fiberglass body kit and a $3,000 interior designed and created by McEntegart. (Those are the stock prices, anyway; no word on what he charged the studio.) Even more amazingly, McEntegart explains, "I can't draw, I have no design experience, so I just shaped it out of foam."
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Enter a caption (optional)McEntegart's company, Vaydor Exotics, is a Florida-based outfit that uses pros from the marine industry (i.e. guys who know fiberglass) to produce the eponymous kits. Here's a look at how they tear the original car down to get it ready for the graft:
You'll notice that there are shots of McEntegart and team crafting the parts, but no footage of them doing actual assembly. That's because, interestingly enough, they only sell the kits and do not build the cars.
Anyways, those of you in ID school now, particularly you Transportation Design majors, know you won't get much credit for not being able to draw. But it is interesting to see that McEntegert was able to ovecome that deficiency in the model shop. He might not have the drawing capability, but he's certainly got the eye for 3D and the hands for carving.
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Ouch, that 'stunning' design really hurts my eyes.
Looks better than most of the 'new' 'supercars' coming out IMO. It's far from perfect, but compare it to anything from Noble, Factory Five, Pagani, Fisker, etc. and I'd say it holds its own. I'd never drive it, but then there aren't many modern cars I would drive.
I guess in the end, its all subjective. The internet is losing its sh*t over this thing and I'm over here hurling aggressively.
Hey Rain, By "stunning" do you mean a hot mess of contradictory and derivative forms piled up on each other? And by "Supercar" do you mean a rebodied used car? Very cool build capabilities, imagine how nice it could have been with a designer on the team...
Amen.
It's the content like this that make me question Rain's credibility.
Since I can't edit my post, here's another great "design"
Stunning can have different meanings. A more accurate headline is "man who can't draw, has no design experience creates stunning supercar" - that looks like it was designed by someone who can't draw and has no design experience.
I consider this to have been designed. Cars have been designed exactly this way over the years. You can just 3D scan the thing if you need to reproduce it. I'd go so far as to say that drawing skills have nothing to do with product or auto design, as long as you can get to the desired end result needed for the job.
Drawing is but a tool, the man used a different tool to design his car, nothing wrong with that. If more transportation designers used different tools (or were taught to use different tools) we might have a few different looking cars out there.
I'm not gonna hate on this, I can only have respect for someone who pulls this of. Some people prefer to do everything themselves. Yes, the design could be more resolved, but it takes a lot of time and money to learn how to do that (schools are expensive yo). Who knows, he might still improve and seeing what he's done, I'm pretty sure he can pull it off better than most of us. All it takes is perseverance, and he's got plenty of that!