HOW STUFF WORKS: CHOCOLATE, WHISKEY & GAMES

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HOW STUFF WORKS: CHOCOLATE, WHISKEY & GAMES

October 24, 2011

This is another recent project for Discovery Channel. The popular “How Stuff Works” series required a set of three illustrations for their volume 2 DVD packaging. Among the subjects covered this time around were chocolate, whiskey, and games; very different but interesting subjects to render in 3D. As a technical illustrator, I’m usually drawing hard-surfaced, mechanical subject matter, so the organic nature of the “Whiskey” and “Chocolate” images made them particularly fun and challenging to create. Thanks to Bill Hartman at Discovery Communications for the great project!

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Curtis Sayers

Curtis Sayers is a technical illustrator. He strives to communicate complex ideas and information with dynamic visual solutions.

3 Comments

October 25, 2011 at 2:03 pm

Annemari Tarsitano

Hi Curtis,

I love how light describes the chocolate wrapper and how you were able to create a reflective quality in the whiskey glass. I give the assignment "Light and Shadow" to my photography students. You have achieved that objective with your illustrations here. Can't wait to see the series with my boys! Thanks for sharing your fine work!
October 26, 2011 at 12:45 am

Kerby | Brochure Printing

I cant believe it. At first i really thought these are real pictures. Then as I read the post, I was astonished that they are actually 3D illustrations. Great work. I wish I could learn how you do this.
October 26, 2011 at 8:44 pm

Curtis Sayers

Hey Annemari, thanks for the kind words! I took a photography class way back in college and wish I'd paid more attention. Never realized how it would impact my art later on. Hope you and the boys are well!

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Tanya Mysko
Fidelity
“I worked with Curtis on a few projects for Discovery. He has great detail in his illustrations and executed my vision perfectly. Curtis is talented, responsive and dependable.”

Bill Hartman
Discovery Communications
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More Aqua, Inc.
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Ward Hill Marketing
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Markem-Imaje
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