Teague Documentary Update - Oct 2012
The Vanity Kodak of 1928. owned and photographed by Ralph London. It's time for an update on the progress of the Walter D. Teague documentary . My last update was July 2011 when I returned from my research trips to New York City, Aspen, Oregon and Denver. Well, the reality is that when classes start in September (being a full-time professor) I don't have much time to work on the doc at all. But, in the fall, I worked with my industrial design students to recreate, digital models of some of Teague's greatest designs. They painstakingly studied photographs and patent drawings to make these designs with Solidworks software. Kodak cameras, Steuben glass, and Sparton radios were re-created so that we can show them 3 dimensionally and animate them for the film! It's going to look amazing! The raw, unrendered Solidworks model of the Sparton Sled radio model 557 1936. Modeled by Sean Missal. ...