[ENDED] BC3-1806 – June 2018 Class Homepage – Vehicle Modeling with Blender

[Kent Trammell]

@jack07 Fantastic work so far! Great airplane, and that massive primitive cathedral! 🤩 Also creating your own blueprint continues to impress me. Big A on your homework this week.

I don’t think you’ve chosen an easy vehicle, nor do I think it’s cheating at all. There’s a lot of details in the truck that will prove a challenge I think. I say you continue it. Part of the challenge will be preparing it well for smoothing. I suggest you not leave any edge low-poly sharp but make sure to round it out slightly (as happens with holding edges + subsurf smoothing). That will make it look closer to the real thing as well as make it render beautifully, catching a sharp highlight on all edges – delicious!

PS: At some point recently our dev restricted embeds, including sketchfab it seems. I need to discuss this with him as it’s clearly a hindrance in this case. My apologies for that. I followed the links and saw your models on sketchfab’s site instead; still would prefer it shows here though.

[Kent Trammell]

@arev Modeling from a photo is likely going to prove tricky. The highly reflective car paint may be deceptive in matching the surface. But if you can’t find blueprints, it’s pretty much the only option, so it’s a valid one. Also consider that there’s very little chance the photo was taken perfectly head-on (meaning it’s not perfectly symmetrical) also there’s going to be perspective in the photo rather than being orthographic. I recommend favoring one side and accepting that the other side won’t be 100% perfect.

[Kent Trammell]

@clean3d 5 Power moons to you for that tip! Thanks for sharing.

[Bauke Post]

@theluthier How difficult do you think modeling this would be? It  also doesn’t have any blueprints, so that might be tricky.

[Morten Fjellheim]

@theluthier I have found some vector drawings, but they are not very good. It might work if i use images to sort out the details. 

[Kent Trammell]

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CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT #2 (June 6, 2018)

Week 1’s stream recording is now available if you missed it. Also I’ve secured a concept car blueprint thanks to the talented 2D/3D artist, Milen Ivanov! (Milen’s Instagram and ArtStation)

This is the vehicle I’ll be modeling and you’re welcome to model it as well if you don’t want to find your own! Just right click and “Open Image in a New Tab/Window” for full size.

[Kent Trammell]

@doulos4iesou Beautiful job on the exercise submissions! And I like the choice of 67 plymouth roadrunner. After doing a quick search, you may be in luck with a blueprint. Though it’s for a 69…

Also it’s definitely an A for this week’s homework 👍

[Lluís Donat]

Hi Kent and all of you hard surfacers!

Here the link to my airplane exercise: https://sketchfab.com/models/410db031fec442b385ee7dad6feae7de

,here the primitives exercise: https://sketchfab.com/models/94069ff682604c0691d980b57bf2b00f

and here my vehicle (let’s say it is) . It feels me like a real challenge to model all that stuff, including materials.

May the force be with us!

[Kent Trammell]

@michallis Great job on the exercises and I love the vintage car you’ve chosen. That blueprint is 👌. Easily an A for this week.

I love hearing about your motivation! That image is wild. Did the wheels really deform like that or is it lens distortion somehow?!

[Kent Trammell]

@silentheart00 Woah. Is that a real car? 😳

[Kent Trammell]

@baukepost That’s a cool design! You definitely could model from the one image. It’s arguably a little trickier but very doable. You’d have to setup a camera that matches your model to the art, like I do for the robot in this tutorial. I say go for it, Bauke 🤘

BTW, your exercises are well done. I love the LotR primitives tower! And the fact you modeled and entire sports car as practice, it’s safe to say you’ve earned an A++ this week 👏

[Kent Trammell]

@arev Awesome – you found blueprints for your vintage car choice! That will be a fun model. BTW did you post your exercises somewhere that I missed?

[Jeremy Pouillot]

Hey I’ve begin work on my car which, even in blocky model, looks cool to me but I’m facing some kind of problem, how do you manage multiple curves crossing each other ? 

The way I did it now is by adding triangles to follow the curve but I don’t like triangles …

If the answer is in recommended courses, I’ve began them (car modelling and moto).

[Kent Trammell]

@llusd Lovely job on the plane. Did you do the primitives exercise too? And good find on the blueprint + perspective photos (or renders?) of exterior and interior. You’re well prepared 👌

[Morten Fjellheim]

@theluthier 

Here is the airplane. 

Link to sketchfab model

https://sketchfab.com/models/fe8a8fa3283b41ccbd4911b48b5f20e8

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