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

[Kent Trammell]

@baukepost This is looking so cool already. I second @tbrbn’s feedback.

[Kent Trammell]

@csehz Sorry to hear the plane exercise was more on the difficult side. The result turned out well. On one hand, having the physical toy as reference is going to be a huge plus. On the negative side, having a blueprint is super useful with vehicle modeling. Usually I’m against over-dependence on orthographic/blueprints (especially for organic modeling) in this case it a significant aid.

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel I’ll spill the beans: I too have found box modeling to be inadequate for intuitively achieving the smooth curvature of most vehicles. Edge-modeling is the ticket.

[Hans Christian Gross]

Homework Submission Week 1

Airplane:

Model with Primitives: https://cgcookie.com/exercise_submissions/13647

My chosen vehicle: 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Cabriolet B

[William Miller]

@baukepost Why didn’t I think of that?  That’s exactly what I’ll do!

[Neil Nicholson]

HOMEWORK SUBMISSION WEEK 1

HI.

I will admit that I did not look at the primitives video and kinda went all subsurface:

    https://sketchfab.com/models/701c3e449d1c450ba950746dfe1d9343

So after reviewing that video today – I have redone my models in cylinders and cubes.

  https://sketchfab.com/models/bc31f94dc9e7462e94e6bc562e44eb72

Primitives:

SubSurface:

I’ve not done the plane course yet – but I have watched some of it.

Cheers!

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@theluthier @dostovel 

 I’ll spill the beans: I too have found box modeling to be inadequate for intuitively achieving the smooth curvature of most vehicles. Edge-modeling is the ticket.

Shots fired 😀

From my (little) experience, if you want to have a one-to-one replica of a given car model, it will indeed be more easily achieved with edge modelling. Box modeling is more recommend for stuff you can allow yourself ” “artistic freedom” (understand: not having the energy to struggle 😉 ).

The problem with edge-modeling is how repetitive and not fun this workflow is (at least to me). It also give me the impression of not really working in a smart way, not to anticipate the following steps of the modelling. It’s a safe method, I can’t deny it but I don’t find it rewarding.

Box modeling is time-consuming on the beginning, but once you the proper blocks and major mesh flow which will give you the correct feature lines to sharpen, the remaining of the modelling becomes very simple. And you can definitely achieve great replicas of actual vehicle models with box modelling. Just allow yourself few days of struggle with the blocking part.

[William Miller]

I have begun the block out of my tank.

[Vlado Tasner]

Homework Submission Week 1

Airplane – I can see some tris happening on the glass on sketchfab, couldn’t figure out the issue, except that it wasn’t happening neither in unreal or unity with the same model.

Primitives Modeling

Blueprints:

BB18 25 Train
Ford V3000S

I want to go with the truck at first, but if it proves to be difficult regarding my time management, I might switch to the train.

Sorry for late-ish submission.
Cheers!

[Kaj Suominen]

@theluthier 

Homework Submission week1

had the plane on earlier post, and now this primitive thing. 🙂

https://cgcookie.com/exercise_submissions/14768

[Aaron Rudderham]

@lollito_larkham @theluthier Thanks for the advice you two! Never even thought about mirroring the blueprints, that should help a lot. I think until Tuesday I’m mostly going to study prerecorded content whilst experimenting with my model on the side so I know as much general stuff as possible before getting into the more specific field of vehicles.

Thanks for the grading too! I definitely know my primitives exercise could’ve been much better but that just gives me motivation to do better.

[Darren McBain]

@neilnico Hi Neil, just checking those links on sketchfab,, its showing as unpublished so we cant see them, either that or theyre set to private.  you can double check in sketchfab when you manage the model, should be a publish button there.

[Jere Haapaharju]

Homework submission week 1

Here’s my Small plane and the Primitives Exercise

Small plane by swikni on Sketchfab

I’m not so much of a car person so it was difficult for me to decide what kind of a vehicle would be nice to make. Finally I decided to reunite with my first car that I sometimes miss even though it was a piece of junk. Here he is: Mazda 323 from year 1998

Edit: The Sketchfab embed doesn’t seem to show properly but the “Small plane” -link should take you to the model

[Neil Nicholson]

@oboshape 

I have checked both models. one was in draft but the other was published.  I have now ensured that both are published. If there are any further problems please let me know.

Cheers.

[Jeremy Pouillot]

Homework B3-1806 Week 1

Because I’m not sure that it was count at my first post …

Airplane :

Primitives :

https://cgcookie.com/exercise_submissions/12087

And for the model … it not really exists but I’ve started with a jaguar blue print :

with a real model :

And currently it’s like something else (WIP of course …):

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