Illustration

Hacker Field Guide

Illustrations supporting an online article about the common terminology of the hacker world. The concept turns the network into the weapon. Ordinary cables bend and coil into demolition tools, the instruments used to tear a system apart.

Each tool was modeled and rendered in Blender, then finished in Photoshop.

Client: Raytheon
Programs: Blender, Adobe Photoshop
Credits: Illustration, 3-D, Creative Direction

Wide render of an open laptop with a shattering screen, red network cables snaking around it against a dark teal field.

Glowing red network cables coiled into the silhouette of a claw hammer.

Glowing red network cables coiled into the silhouette of a handsaw, the cable itself zigzagging to form the toothed blade.

Glowing red network cables coiled into the silhouette of a power drill, its cord ending in an ethernet connector.

Glowing red network cables coiled into the silhouette of a pair of bolt cutters.

Glowing red network cables coiled into the silhouette of a circular saw, the cable curling into its toothed blade.