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

[Kent Trammell]

@williamatics That’d be awesome!

[Aaron Rudderham]

@theluthier Ah fair enough, sounds great then! I’ve admittedly been concentrating on concept more recently so I’ll switch my priorities for this month, really looking forward to this.

[Bauke Post]

Car modeling exercise

The blockout phase of my car exercise is finished and I’ve already learned something: modeling cars is hard! Some of the edges aren’t there in my real model, but they were added by the computer because of bent quads and ngons. 

Two questions: 

1. How good do you keep your topology in this stage? Do you think it’s bad to have some triangles or would you just clean that up later?

2. Should I already separate the panels and start detailing?

https://sketchfab.com/models/1da9312edf3c4f6fae45aff5d9566525

[William Miller]

Wait, we’re starting already?

[Bauke Post]

@williamatics No, this is just an exercise :). I’ll edit my post to avoid confusion.

[Kent Trammell]

@baukepost Getting a head start! I respect that.

1. For vehicle modeling, your topology mostly matters for smoothing purposes. As a hard-surface object we don’t have to worry about deformation as with character models. That said, I think triangles are more ok than with character models. But I still try to stick with quads as much as possible.

   2. I’d say yes. Though I’m not convinced there’s a ‘perfect time’ to begin segmenting the model. It appears to me that you’ve blocked out the whole body pretty well and thus appears ready for segmenting.

[Bauke Post]

Sorry to ask another question, but I’m currently working in a little bit more detail on the front panels (which I have already seperated). I just can’t seem to achieve such a sharp point where the line ends when using subsurf. Do you guys have any advice?

[William Miller]

@baukepost I’m pretty sure Chris Kuhn has done that in his motorcycle course.

[Bauke Post]

@williamatics Thanks, i’ll take a look!

[Bauke Post]

@williamatics I couldn’t find it in the course, are you sure he covers creating a sharp point that starts on a smooth surface?

[Kaj Suominen]

@baukepost either have holding edge that you spread out from the point where you want to have the point be. or use triangle to get similar effect. though latter propably will be trickier since sub-d is question.

[Bauke Post]

@louhikarme I tried adding some holding edges, but it gives me some pinching. Not a whole lot though.

https://sketchfab.com/models/cd8217044701437785564a5e54532888

[Zach Zellman]

@baukepost did you try having a face loop that wraps around the corner? Like the topology on the mouth of a character, that might help.

[Omar Domenech]

@baukepost 

Try something like this. Blue loops will have to be sacrificed. Topology gods demand it. 

[Bauke Post]

Thank you for your reply’s, this is really helpful feedback! I’ll try to improve it and please the topology gods 🙂

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