Diploma project 2014 Mikhil Sonavaria

DIPLOMA PROJECT CONCEPT VEHICLE FOR THE MOVIE END VS END Sponsor : SELF

Volume : 1 STUDENT : MIKHIL SONAVARIA PROGRAMME : Post-Graduate Diploma Programme

GUIDE : BALAJI RENGARAJAN

2014 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (TRANSPORTATION & AUTOMOBILE DESIGN)

National Institute of Design Ahmedabad

The Evaluation Jury recommends MIKHIL SONAVARIA for the

Diploma of the National Institute of Design IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (TRANSPORTATION & AUTOMOBILE DESIGN)

herewith, for the project titled "CONCEPT VEHICLE FOR THE MOVIE END VS END" on fulfilling the further requirements by

Chairman Members :

*Subsequent remarks regardwing fulfilling the requirements :

Registrar(Academics)

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DISCLAIMER

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Originality Statement

Copyright Statement

I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and it contains no full or substantial copy of previously published material or it does not even contain substantial proportions of material which have been accepted for the award of any other degree of diploma of any other educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in this diploma project. Moreover I also declare that none of the concepts are borrowed or copied without due acknowledgement.

I further declare that the intellectual content of this Diploma project is the product of my own work, except to the extent that assistance from others in the project’s design and conception or in style, presentation and linguistic expression is acknowledged. This diploma project (or part of it) was not and will not be submitted as assessed work in any other academic course.

I hereby grant the National Institute of Design the right to archive and to make available my diploma project/thesis/ dissertation in whole or in part in the Institute’s knowledge Management Centre in all forms of media, now or hereafter known, subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act. I have either used no substantial portions of copyright material in my document or I have obtained permission to use copyright material.

Mikhil Sonavaria

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CONTENTS

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ACKNOWNLEDGEMENT 11 ABOUT NID 13 TIMELINE 14 INTRODUCTION & DESIGN BRIEF

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End vs End (The Movie) 01 RESEARCH 1.1

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Inspirational Work 1.1.1 Daniel Simon 1.1.2 Herald Belker Bollywood Movie Cars 1.2.1 Mere Dad ki Maruti 1.2.2 Hum hai Rahi Car ke 1.2.3 Challo Driver 1.2.4 Ferrari ki Sawari 1.2.5 Do Dooni Char 1.2.6 Ta Ra Rum Pum 1.2.7 Taxi no.9211 1.2.8 Tarzan, The wonder car

02 DESIGN PROCESS 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8

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Design Llst Original Story Board Logo Design Warm Up Sketches Space Craft design Helmet Design Space Suit Design Alien Terrain 2.8.1 Explorations 2.8.2 3D Model

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3.1.1 Doodles 1 3.1.2 Doodles 2 Direction 1 3.2.1 Mood Board 3.2.2 Sketches 3.2.3 Final Renders Direction 2 3.3.1 Mood & Inspiration Board 3.3.2 Sketches 3.3.3 Front Explorations 3.3.4 Rear Explorations 3.3.5 Final Renders Direction 3 3.4.1 Mood Board 3.4.2 Sketches 3.4.3 Side View Explorations 3.4.4 Side View Character Explorations 3.4.5 Vehicle Details 3.4.6 Wheel Explorations 3.4.7 Interior Seating 3.4.8 Final renders

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Introspection & Conclusion

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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Yendamuri Veerendranath -Author Kuttalingum D. -Software Provider Shiraz Iqbal -For the Idea Prateekshankar Dixit Amol Doiphode Suyog Patel Rajesh S. Batch 2011

Balaji Rengarajan, Project guide Vipul Vinzuda, Coordinator Transportation & Automobile Design

Mom & Dad Savini Sonavaria Forum Kapadia

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ABOUT NID The National Institute of Design (NID) is internationally acclaimed as one of the foremost multi-disciplinary institutions in the field of design education and research. The Business Week, USA has listed NID as one of the top 25 European & Asian programmes in the world. The institute functions an autonomous body under the department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. NID is recognised by the Dept. of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR) under Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, as a scientific and industrial design research organisation. NID has been a pioneer in industrial design education after Bauhaus and Ulm in Germany and is known for its pursuit of design excellence to make Designed in India, Made for the World.

NID has been a pioneer in industrial design education after Bauhaus and Ulm in Germany and is known for its pursuit of design excellence to make Designed in India, Made for the World a reality. NID’s graduates have made a mark in key sectors of commerce, industry and social development by taking role of catalysts and through thought leadership.

NID Gandhinagar is situated in the city of Gandhinagar, in Gujarat. As part of expansion plan, NID has started building a new postgraduate campus at Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat State. The upcoming campus is spread over 11,362 square meters. Campus will consist of a jewellery and automobile design centre along with lifestyle accessory design,

NID’s R&D Campus at Bangalore was set up as a joint initiative of and funding from the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India and was inaugurated in March 2006. R&D Campus commenced two research intensive PG Programmes namely Design for Retail Experience and Design for Digital Experience, from the academic year 2007-2008. From the academic year 2008-2009, the Campus has also commenced one more research intensive PG Programme, namely Information and Interface Design. NID’s Research & Development Campus addresses the immediate need for an exclusive Design Research centre in the country, by fostering the creative design spirit and sighting new opportunities and frontiers through NID’s design acumen nurtured over the four decades of intense teaching-learning process.

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TIMELINE The timeline mentioned here, is the timeline which I presumed before beginning the project. After digging deeper into the project I realized that, I not only have to do the things that I earlier thought but also invest a great deal of time in learning new softwares like MODO and Z-brush and trying new techniques.

The process also involved creating a story board, and ideating the vehicle keeping the story board in mind. In the Design & Convergence phase I had to divide my time, I was jumping from sketching vehicles to creating shots for the story.

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INTRODUCTION Science-fiction movies dictate what we expect from the future. Movies influence our need for technological advancements. In the year 2002 a Hollywood film Minority report featured gesture control & augmented reality and they are now available in our daily computing devices. Science Fiction author John Clute said “Science-fiction has never really aimed to tell us when we might reach other planets, or develop new technologies. Science fiction speculates about why we might want to do these things, and how their consequences might affect our lives and our planet.�

Imagination is innovation: Imagination drives innovation in the field of science; the utopian future perceived by concept artists in movies is how we fancy to live and travel in the future. Living on planet Mars or driving a space buggy on its surface may be a distant dream for us now but at least we can imagine how living on Mars will feel like or what kind of a space buggy would be in the market for such explorations.

Usually sci-fi movies are made up four elements. A plot, actors, time and lastly a vehicle. The plot defines the story and interaction of the characters. The actors enhance the plot and form an emotional connect with the audience. Fantasy concept vehicles in sci-fi movies play an important role in defining a plot or to suggest the time in future.

DESIGN BRIEF Automotive manufactures also use sci-fi movies with story plots based in the future to showcase the future design philosophy of the brand. Studying governing factors of automotive forms influenced by the selected theme, mood and inspirations. Both the movies and the companies benefit from such collaborations.

Conceptualize a concept vehicle for a sci-fi Bollywood movie script. Based on the purpose of the vehicle in the movie design a functional vehicle. The presence of the vehicle on the screen should be such that it mesmerizes the audience. The vehicle outshining the other stars in the movie must also become an icon for the movie.

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On 1st november 2013, There was a communication blackout for 18mins 13 secs.

After two days followed by the sun radiating weirdly.

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After assuring himself and gathering the courage to share his theory Ayan started persuading his colleagues and fellow scientists.

To convince the rest of the world he not only needed hard evidence but also a realistic plan about the mission. Ayan then decided to involve oem’s briefing them about the various requirements of the mission.

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After ayan had all the proof supporting his theory, he had to convince the world. So on 10th august a conference was held at the un headquarters in new york. He was nervous, the world’s eyes upon him.

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The presentation began...lets meet the team first.

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HOW FAR IS IT?

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If you think 500 light years is too far. Have a look at this.

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Q&A WITH AYAN What happens if the sun is lost?

99.9% of earth’s productivity is because of photosynthesis.

The current average temperature is 14-15 degrees. It will fall below 0 degrees.The oceans will freeze in 1 to 3 years.

The Global surface temp will reduce to -73 degrees Celsius.

The Ice age will return folllowed by extinction of human beings.

How far is the planet?

Keplar 186f is 500 light years away i.e. under 5000 trillion kms away. With our current technology we can achieve 62,120 kmph. which will take us approximately 22 lakh years for reaching the destination.

How is the distance measured?

Distance beteen the earth and keplar 186f is measured using Red shift. A type 1a Super Nova is used a standard candle. To meaure the ditance the brightness is compared with the standard candle.

How do we reach the alien planet?

What is dark matter?

There are many theories to cover such large distances.

One of them is bending the time and space fabric, second is using a worm hole and the third is using portals.

To reach the planet keplar we will have to travel at the speed of light. The most likely way of doing this will be the use of an warp engine. According to Einstein’s theory as energy increases mass increases so to travel at the speed of light infinite energy is needed because. Therefore the only way to achieve interstellar space travel the space needs to be distorted instead of traveling at the speed of light.

Dark matter is made of nuetrinos which is a high energy invisible excotic particle. Dark matter was created during the Big Bang and is causing the universe to accelerate. It is the scafolding holding the normal matter making up of 23% of universe & 4% of normal matter. It has helped in the formation of Stars. Light bends while passing through dark matter It passes through ordinary matter but is low on mass.

Dark matter does not interact with matter but gets affected by gravity. Germanium is used to detect dark matter. Germanium needs to be kept at - zero temperatures. Possible suspects of dark matter are MACHOS & Axions. MACHOS or Massive Compact Halo Objects have high mass and do not emit much light. They are present throughout the galaxy.

Axions are very light and were created during the Big Bang.

They change to protons and are also omnipresent in the universe.

What is a warp engine?

A Warp enigne is an antimatter Catalyzed Micro-Fission (ACMF) engine. A warp engine compresses the space in the front while explanding the space in the rear. The warp engine uses the Space-Time continium theory. In quantum mechanics, in vaccum particles exists which appear & disappear proving the existence of negative energy. The radiation from ACMF engine would be intercepted by a 4 meter radius silicon carbide shell. Additionally, 1.2 meters of lithium hydride will shield the fuel rings from high-energy neutrons that are ejected from the nuclear explosions, and 2.2 meters of shielding will protect the crew modules. The spacecraft would have a total mass of 625 metric tons, with 82 additional metric tons available for payload.

Warp drive equation for calculating the energy required for time- space jump.

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How to communicate with the space craft?

The current technology is insufficient, Laser communication will be used which will negate the lag time in the receivers.

How to reduce cost per kilo of sending something into space?

Current cost of $13,182 per kilo. Use of Ram jet Engines which are more reliable and cost efficient. Ram jets fuses hyrogen gas to produce a jet. Ram jets are currently being used for short range missiles.

What is a portal?

What is a Wormhole?

A wormhole provides shortcut to time. A wormhole connects to black holes. The rate of flow of time at the two planets is different and the flow remains constant in the wormhole.

Thee are no natural wormholes, wormholes will have to be created.The walls of a wormhole are made up of quantum foam. The CERN particle accelerator is trying to produce microscopic black hole.

A portal is an extra ordinary opening in space and time which connect to distant realms. They are formed when the geo magnetic field of earth connects with the magnetic field of sun. Sudden joining of magnetic force causes propulsion of charged particles creating an electron diffusion region.

Cluster probes suggest these portals close & open each day.

Some portals are small & short lived while others are large.

Energetic particles can flow through the opening of the portals. Portals can be detected using magnetospheric multiscale magnetic sensors.

How do we fund this project?

The only way we can fund this if every government in the world starts setting aside money for the project.

The investment in research & development of the technology will also benefit & change how our civilization sustains on earth. Donations by people and companies will also be encouraged for successfully funding this project. Tax benefits will be given to manufacturers and suppliers associated with this project.

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MISSION VEHICLES The success of the mission requires three vehicles: Interstellar space jump vehicle, a planet explorer and a contact vehicle.

Keplar Planet Explorer: This craft will take the contact officers into the alien atmosphere. The contact vehicle will be loaded in the bay and then air dropped once the craft reaches the necessary altitude. It is powered with two Sabre Reaction Engines.

Interstellar Space Jump Vehicle: The ISJE is the second most important vehicle of the mission. It will cover the most distance than any other man made object sent to space. It will travel 1000 light years once it leaves earth. The first test jump will be to the dwarf planet Makemake.

The construction of ISJE will begin in the year 2035 & will take twenty years to assemble with more than 10 trips/years from earth.

Contact Vehicle: The contact vehicle is the most important part of the mission and will require maximum time in design & development. It will be vehicle that the astronauts will use to explore the planet Keplar. The contact vehicle will be the first object to interact with the alien life from the planet Earth.

The objective of this vehicle is to provide safety during the exploration of the unknown planet. It will be medium of interaction between the two species. The vehicle will be powered with a nuclear fusion reactor.

Probes will be sent to Keplar so that the vehicle can be designed accordingly. Only after the astronauts are convinced about the capabilities of the vehicle and have complete trust in it the mission will be successful. For this rigorous testing of the vehicle will be done. The astronauts will be made to survive inside the vehicle for 3-4 days. As advancements in technology are made the vehicle will be updated. The vehicle will be further tested on Mars in 2050. The contact vehicle prototype will be made in the year 2020 and testing begins in 2025. Funds for the mission will be gathered by parading the vehicle with the heroes accompanying it.

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KEPLAR PLANET EXPLORER

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INSTERSTELLAR SPACE JUMP EXPLORER

HYBRID NUCLEAR FUSION PLASMA ENGINES

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GERMANIUM DETECTOR

SHUTTLE DOCKING HANGER WITH 2.2 MTS THICK LITHIUM HYDRIDE SHELL

ANTIMATTER CATALIZED MICRO FUSION ENGINE

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Although sceptical, the world did come to together, after the world leaders were convinced by the top scientists. And so mission save the sun began.

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the mission save the sun ends successfully thus saving future of mankind. the journey time was only five years but the mission took 75 years to complete and at a cost of 1500 billion dollars. because of the mission many fields of science & technology gained impetus. the use of antimatter fusion technology to produce unlimited electricity solved most of the fuel related problems.

The research done in cryogenics & hyberantion was profited by health services in increasing the life span of people. The dying of a sun in another solar system not only taught us to appreciate the readily available natural resources on earth and brought us together as a species. and Finally the mission answered the most daunting question: are we alone in this universe?

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01 RESEARCH & DESIGN

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1.1 INSPIRATIONAL WORK

1.1.1. Daniel Simon designs sophisticated vehicle-centered dreams for imagined futures, pasts, and sci-fi worlds. His mechanical fantasies come to life in movies, books, and reality, sparking true emotions with their detailed believability.

Simon summarizes his creative belief as ‘Style for All Galaxies’ and ‘Vehicle Design Unlimited’.

After obtaining his degree in automotive design at the internationally acclaimed University of Applied Science in Pforzheim, Germany, he enjoyed five years of explosively creative work at Volkswagen’s advanced studio near Barcelona, Spain. In 2005, Simon worked as a senior designer for Bugatti Automobiles. In 2007, his first book, Cosmic Motors, was published, opening the doors to Hollywood: he became vehicle concept designer on the feature film Tron: Legacy.

Simon now works in Los Angeles, California, on a variety of concept-design projects for Hollywood productions and clients (see list below). Simon restlessly fantasizes about alternative worlds, and expresses his personal visions through the ever-expanding worlds of Cosmic Motors, The Timeless Racer and DSX.

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1.1.2 Harald Georg Belker is a German automotive/product designer best known for his vehicle designs in films such as Batman & Robin and Minority Report. His designs range from Kaenon Sunglasses to electric bikes and Hot Wheels for Mattel.

Belker’s career started in 1991 at Mercedes Benz Advanced Design in Irvine, California. As part of the team responsible for the Smart Car design, he went on to work independently, eventually ending up in entertainment design. Here he had his most significant success. He also explored furniture design, his Maxelle chair winning the excellent award, and he is responsible for the design of the line of sunglasses for Kaenon Polarized, a Newport Beach, California–based company, that focuses on fashionable but active lifestyle. He has published a couple of design books, Pulse, explaining his future vision for high-speed vehicle racing, and Ride, which showcases the design of a futuristic electric motorcycle.

Since late 2012 he has been working for Anki, a robotics and artificial intelligence startup company whose headquarters is in San Francisco.

His latest book Pulse racing is a vision for the future of racing. The world of pulse Racing is introduced, illustrated and presented in graphic detail. Based on Mag-lev principles, newly designed & developed racing machines take the racers to the limits of human endurance. Tactics & rules make the winner a question down to the last milliseconds of a race.

Never before has the audience participated the way it does in this futuristic setting.

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1.2 BOLLYWOOD MOVIE

If you try and recollect cars seen in Bollywood movies, you would probably remember a Maruti Omni or a TATA Sumo. These cars were famously used by the bad guys while kidnapping someone or while chasing heroes around. But nowadays we see a lot Bollywood movies centring their stories around cars.

1.2.1 Movie: Mere dad ki Maruti Year: 2013 Vehicle: Maruti Eritga Usage: Main Prop Everyone’s dancing and making merry in the Khullar household, especially Tej who is all set to gift would-be son-in-law Raj and daughter Tanvi a brand new Maruti Ertiga car on their wedding day. While the wedding preparations are in full swing, Tej’s son Sameer Sameer uses the new car to impress Jazzleen thr “ Shakira of Chandigarh” and ends up losing it! The car goes missing, thus forcing Sameer and his best friend Gattu to form a complex web of lies to save Sameer from the wrath of his father.

1.2.2 Movie: Hum hai raahi Car ke Year: 2013 Vehicle: Hyundai i10 Usage: Main Prop Hum Hai Raahi CAR Ke is the story of two friends who on one New Year’s night decide to travel from Mumbai to Pune. But a trip that should only take a couple of hours ends up becoming an all-nighters, with wacky events keeping them on the road and preventing them from reaching their destination.

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1.2.3 Movie: Challo Driver Year: 2012 Vehicle: Chevrolet Cruze; Audi Q3 Usage: Main Prop Prem the grandfather wants someone to come in his grandchild’s life who would change his life completely. The hero is very strict by nature and changes his driver 5 times a month.

So by his this behavior. Prem becomes upset. But suddenly a women driver comes into his life and whole story changes respectively. At last Hero marries the Women driver and story ends successfully.

1.2.4 Movie: Ferrari ki sawari Year: 2012 Vehicle: Ferrari f430 Usage: Main prop A little boy, Kayo thinks of nothing but playing cricket. His father, Rusy thinks of nothing but his little boy. To fulfill his son’s dream of playing at the Lord’s Cricket Ground, the honest and upright Rusy performs his first small act of dishonesty: he borrows the gleaming red Ferrari owned

by Sachin Tendulkar, for one day. The only problem is he doesn’t inform its legendary owner. A wild, breathless, bumpy ride begins, a ride that leads to a menagerie of amazing characters: a wedding planner who’ll stop at nothing, a Laurel-and-Hardyesque pair of loyal attendants, a greedy politician and his reckless son and a mechanic who specializes in stolen cars. As the Ferrari zooms through this chaotic world of street-thugs and mass-weddings, another saga unfolds – a grumpy old man and his secret wounds, and an epic rivalry that goes back thirty-eight

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1.2.5 Movie: Do Dooni Char Year: 2010 Vehicle: Maruti Esteem; Bajaj chetak Purpose: Main prop Life can be tough for a man who teaches at a school for a living, lives in a DDA flat in Lajpat nagarDelhi and is coping with the double digit inflation rates and single digit increments in his salary. Add to that, A teenage daughter, a fast-track son and a wife who loves the good life. The life of the Duggals is passing by in simply taking care of the basics. Until one day, they decide to dream. Their ticket to dreaming comes in the form of a wedding invitation. An innocent little wedding invitation. What follows is a journey of chaos, realizations, calculations, confrontations and bonding. The crazy Duggals will fight it out at home (and the neighborhood) for what they think is a ‘good buy’ for the family! This family bonds in the most unexpected and hilarious situations. And just when they think they are sorted out, comes one big, lurking temptation. Much like the apple in the Garden of Eden. And then, begins another journey that will drive them, and you, pretty much nuts.

1.2.6 Movie: Ta Ra Rum Pum Year: 2007 Vehicle: NASCAR race vehicle Usage: Main Prop Story of one man, his family and how they overcome the obstacles that life puts in their way, together. It is the story of human spirit & how it ultimately prevails.

A pit crew worker in a racing team with a passion for driving who gets discovered. He gets drafted into a falling race team.

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1.2.7 Movie: Taxi no. 9211 Year: 2006 Vehicle: Premier Padmini Usage: Main Prop A cabbie and businessman both in need of big money partake in a two-hour adventure together.

1.2.8 Movie: Tarzan Year: 2004 Vehicle Custom: Dilip Chhabria vehicle Usage: Main Prop Raj Chaudhary attends college and works part-time at Kartar Singh’s garage to earn a living, here is where he learns different arts how to design fustic engines and cars. One day while returning home from college, Raj passes by a junk yard, saw a wrecked car and took a liking to it, brought it and bring it home. Raj spent hours and hours designing the wreck and eventually restores it to a car, with the latest technology systems, makes it look new and shiny. He decides to call this new car “Tarzan”. Unknown to Raj that this new car will turn his life upside down of having the worst nightmare in being implicated for a number of innocent lives taken and put him in the bad books of the police.

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02 DESIGN PROCESS

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2.2 ORIGINAL STORY After the script for the movie was finalized a rough draft was done for conceptualizing the scenes.This process also helped in listing the assets required for completing each frame.

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2.3 LOGO DESIGN The logo of the book takes inspiration from “Ack� which is the last alphabet in the Tamil language. The 3 dots signifies the sharing of the sun between the two species. The triangular structure also denotes coming together of the main three elements of the story.

Why? End vs End The story finally comes down to choosing the end of one species over the other.

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The final logo suggests the interaction of two species with their backs to each other. The two species go their separate ways after their interaction.

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2.5 SPACE CRAFT After I got warmed up, I started focusing on necessary assets of the script. Ideating & sketching interesting forms was the main goal of the process.

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2.6 HELMET DESIGN Initially for learning Z-brush, I started 3D modelling using the ideations done for the costume of the astronauts. These are just some of the explorations made.

When the contact is made with the aliens the helmet has pixels which map and recreate the expressions of the astronaut.

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2.7 SPACE The space suit was designed in the year 1969. The suit has three layers: Water cooled layer, pressurized suit with flexible joints. Outer Nylon fabric suit for extreme temperature. The pressure inside the suit is 3.5 psi.

International Latex Corporation & Hamilton Standard were the original contractors responsible for the design and the fabrication of the suits.

The designed suit has a triangulated structure in the fabric which maintains the necessary pressure. The backpack can also be used a glide on personal mobility device.

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2.8.1 ALIEN TERRAIN EXPLORATIONS The brief while conceptualizing the alien terrain was simple.

Make it look weird.

The aliens inhabiting keplar 186f have built their civilization under the crust. They keep themselves heated by harnessing the heat from the planets core. Planet’s average temperature on the surface is -73 degrees Celsius on the surface.

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Process of photo bashing with photos clicked using phone and images found on the internet.

Exterior of Keplar 186f

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Although the exterior of the planet is dead it is very beautiful because of the blue lava flowing from the craters. The blue colour is due to the presence of sulphur.

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The aliens on keplar 186f have built their civilization under the crust. They keep themselves heated by harnessing the heat from the planets core.

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Z-brush Model 2.3 million polygons

2.8.2 3D MODEL The alien environment was recreated in Zbrush and then rendered in MODO. Time taken 2 hours. Recreating renders in Photoshop although would take lesser time, 3D models give the flexibility of easily changing textures and lighting conditions with a click of a button. The same 3D model can be used for visualizing scenes with different camera angles.

Texture Map 2000 x 1000 pixels

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3.1.1 DOODLES 1 In the beginning while the script was being decided I had very little to work. This doodling session not only gave me interesting forms but also a direction for the functionality of the vehicle.

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3.1.2 DOODLES 2 After keeping in mind that I wanted a vehicle to resemble a tank, these explorations were carried out.

The results were quite helpful later on in deciding the volume and the stance of the vehicle.

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3.3 DIRECTION TWO The second direction for the contact vehicle took inspiration from nature while maintaining the stance of a battle tank. In direction two, the idea was to create a vehicle that was soft to touch with a solid but brittle frame holding it. The exterior of the vehicle consists of a soft fabric. The vehicle bends, turns and twists while manoeuvring since there are no rigid parts on the vehicle.

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3.4.5 VEHICLE DETAILS Turret: The turret canopy rotates 360 degrees. Since the environment is new and unexplored the passengers need a 360 degree view of the environment.

Protective Exterior Shield: The protective surface keeps the chassis in place and also protects it. It is also made up lithium hydride to absorb radiation.

Chassis: The sponge like chassis of the vehicle is super malleable and adaptable. It is made up of ceramic carbon nano tubes. It will adapt and become softer or stiffer depending upon the on the surface of the terrain.

Free Axle: The Axle and the wheels are not physically connected to the chassis. There are given power and kept in place with electromagnetic tension.

Lift Points

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3.4.6 WHEEL EXPLORATIONS The wheels of the contact vehicle are made up of ventilated rubber infused with carbon. This rubber is super light & stiff .

Like the chassis it becomes malleable when required. The wheels have no physical linkages with the chassis. Electromagnetic repulsion is used to keep them in place and for generating motion.

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3.4.7 INTERIOR SEATING All passengers sitting in one direction. When the turret rotates the entire cabin rotates, the driver can maintain the direction of the vehicle while the turret rotates.

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3.4.8 the Meet Finalstar Renders of the movie End vs End.

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This diploma project is an amalgamation of transportation design with entertainment design. Trying to bring the best of both worlds together was not an easy task since the processes followed in both quite different.

Vehicle styling projects usually requires research on understanding the needs of the end user while entertain design on the other hand tries to satisfy the observer. The idea was to switch from an entertainment designer to a transportation designer and vice versa to justify this process. To start things off I had to create the story board. Once that is done the story board would be used as a mood & inspiration board for designing the vehicle.

Doing a self sponsored project has its own set of challenges but I am glad that I could turn the challenges into opportunities. Initially the idea of learning new soft wares and techniques was unpromising but whatever I have learnt during this has readily benefited my skills as a transportation designer. Before I venture into the automotive industry this project has allowed me push myself as a student.

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