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

[Bauke Post]

@dieedi Nice job on your car so far! I don’t know exactly what to say, because I haven’t seen your concept/references yet. However, there are two things that stand out to me:

1. You don’t have loop running around all your major features (see: Mesh Modeling Bootcamp)

2. There are some 6 sided poles on an edge that you will probably make pretty sharp, the poles will cause some pinching.

Good luck!

[Morten Fjellheim]

My front and top wiev referance images doesnt seem to be very acurate. Or one of them probly are, but i dont know which one. Is there any way to determine this, or maybe it can be fixed?

[Bauke Post]

@arev First of all, the selected vertex is not in the same spot in top & front view. I would advice you to make some very simple shapes for the car and see if you can align the different background images as correctly as possible. If they don’t quite match, it would be smart to use one of the views as the main image you’re working from and use the rest for reference.

Good luck and have fun!

[silentheart00]

@baukepost It looks like the shapes are pretty simple, it’s the detail that will take some time.  For the most part, looks like curved boxes and cylinders.  Break it down into simple shapes and see if you can do it.

Anyone else’s thoughts?

[silentheart00]

@theluthier Yes it is, the Apollo Intensa Emozione.  It’s a type of hypercar, which is a class of the fastest possible cars above things like Lambos and Ferraris.  These cars are stupid fast and so much engineering is put behind them.  There was a documentary on Netflix, I think, about hypercars I suggest anyone to watch.

But, I’m still exploring possible ideas.  It’s either a muscle car, a BMW, or a horse cart.

[William Miller]

Hmmm, I’m starting to rethink my decision to model a tank.  Maybe I should make something more exotic.

[William Miller]

Do you know where I can find blueprints and concept art for exotic, futuristic vehicles?

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@williamatics Check this website https://www.the-blueprints.com/ (you’ll need to create an account). The vector format blueprints are not free unfortunately, but they have decent .png/.jpeg format of basically everything:

https://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/sciencefiction/

[Jeremy Pouillot]

@williamatics https://drawingdatabase.com/category/aircraft/spacecraft/  

but every vehicles can serve as a base shape for scifi

[Kent Trammell]

@dieedi 2 things I’ve learned about building vehicle exteriors:

• Establish edges and crevices first (meaning shape and mesh component), then connect the space between with geometry
• Don’t be afraid to separate into multiple pieces

Building your care as one big piece is going to drive you nuts. And judging by the gridded pattern in the geo, my guess is you starting from a cube. The grid pattern is only going to hurt the workflow. Also, I’m going to go over all this stuff in the next livestream.

[Kent Trammell]

@arev They look accurate to me. Since you’ve matched all verts to the top blueprint, you just need to match the verts in the front blueprint in the up/down direction. As in your selected vert needs to come down a touch till it aligns with the hood border. And all the other verts going backward need to come up to align with the hood order. Does that make sense?

[Kent Trammell]

@tbrbn What a great find! I never thought to look up sci-fi blueprints. Thanks for sharing

[Kent Trammell]

@silentheart00 I gotta watch that documentary. Never heard of hypercars 😳

[Kaj Suominen]

Homework Submission Week 1

wow, its been 4 years since i did this. https://cgcookie.com/u/louhikarme/projects/cartoon-plane-finished

lot of has happened since. and learned many things during that, also the most important one, you never stop learning. there is always something new. And things you thought you knew gets new perspective while watching someone else troubleshoot quads. Thank you for excellent live stream, learned few things that went straight to toolbox to be used later. 🙂

as you know I do mainly game assets currently and don’t have that much time to do high poly models, so this is also a fresh class to be part, and i’ll hopefully get enough time to get this thing further. What i’ve set myself for this is to combine hardops with sub-d and have meshes that i can convert relatively easy into low polys aswell if needed. and hopefully figure out good middle ground with all of it.. which means bool tools, cleanups to get back to quads.

goal will be ford coupe 1934 hotrod.

and the blockout for rest of it.

so, there is going to be challenging places with the curved body and the windows atleast.

[Marc Hany]

Hey guys can i use this as a blueprint?

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