The adventures of Wally - Comic

For transport design this semester we had to illustrate a comic book. Yep something like this sort of publication usually has a team of 10 illustrators, artists and team directors. 

Some of the key milestones that we had to hit were

• 8 Greyscale pages
• 2 Colour pages
• Pick an existing comic book character and add a twist to the original story.
• Design the car or transport that the main character uses.
• Show the exterior, interior, perspective shots throughout the book
• Emphasis on hand done, majority of the work was hand sketched on paper then scanned in to be outlined again in Photoshop and then colour/grey-scale blocked in.

Massive project! But well worth the time and effort to get it done. There's always more to add to these sort of publications. But I'm happy with my first illustrated comic book.

This comic book is not intended for commercial use or profit. It is purely a single run illustration for a University project. And does not have any connection to the original 'Where's Wally' Comic.

Telstra 2014 M2M University Challenge - Team Monash

Team Monash over the past 9weeks have been developing a M2M (machine to machine) solution for a particular problem that we have highlighted in the Public transport network of Melbourne. Especially in the train network. 

The product shall document the amount of people via weight sensors on trains and log that data to servers which will relay the information to the consumers (mobile app users). This system of informative data will give the network specific data to improve efficiency and dispersal of trains on particular networks whilst informing the transport user of train details such as arrival time and carriage capacity. 

The issue at hand is that PTV (Public Transport Victoria) spend a substantial amount of money each year to survey the amount of people that use particular train services throughout the train lines of Melbourne. There are many more reasons for this viable system to be implemented. And will be highlighted in video coming soon!

Train model 1:30 scale. Force sensitive resistor squares under body.

Working prototype in progress! Exciting!

The challenge ends on the 13th of June. In a weeks time. We are looking forward to wrapping up this project and hopefully we get into the next round. Only 3 teams out of 18 teams from around Australia are chosen to present in person to a board of judges!



Check out our Facebook page for updates and information on our project.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Telstra-M2M-Challenge-2014-Team-Monash/481171241983493