[WIP] CGC Challenge #2 – Vehicles – Thibault Caradec

[Thibault Caradec]

Some more progress on the interior today…

[spikeyxxx]

@otowa You’re definitely getting there!

But don’t you think that the door looks a bit too small? You’re not modelling an existing car, so it’s all up to you, but look at some car references.

Even if you’ll just connect the vertices at the front of the door, that would already improve it, I think…

[Thibault Caradec]

@spikeyxxx Yeah, one of my biggest mistake here has been to not rely on reference images for a lot of very basic shapes and size of things. 

I just looked into it, there are several problems:

-On a “regular” car (not cabriolet), the door include the rear mirror, and contains the window “holder” that comes and connect to the side of the wind shield and the roof. 

-On a cabriolet, the rear mirror is also on the door, sometimes slightly backwards. 

The thing is : everything is very messed up in terms of topology on my side as far as the rear mirror and the base of the wind shield are concerned. 

Lesson learned : ALWAYS use reference image. 

The only thing that is simple to do that I can do is to just get the front of the door a little closer to the front of the car :

But trying to move the rear mirror now, or having to solve the whole windshield issue if I try to pull the door more in front is not really feasible for me now.

[spikeyxxx]

@otowa Already better as proportions go!

As for the rear view mirror, I would make it a separate object ( as it would be in real life), then you can place it wherever you like without messing up other topology.

But time is an issue here, so: if it can’t be fixed, leave it. At least you’ll have learned a lot and do things differently next time!

Keep it up! Cars are very difficult and you’re doing really well.

[Thibault Caradec]

Didn’t feel like modeling the rest of the car today, so I started thinking about the scene… 

So the HDRI is gone, and I need to find the best way to light everything in the current configuration. 

[Thibault Caradec]

Even though I already posted for Live Critique submission earlier, I already changed a few things :

-Added windshield rearview mirror

-Changed the shape of the car behind the seats

-Started working on the headlights

-Added chrome bars on the back part of the car

-Changed the shader of the car hood grid to reflect less light. 

-Changed the camera position (lighting will have to be adjusted later accordingly)

[Thibault Caradec]

My god I’m going to get crazy!

I’ve beenworking for a pretty long time now on a smoke effect on the hovering part. It was nice and baked, and I just adjusted the settings. Now, for whatever reason, the baking that took 20 seconds now is not progressing anymore, and I can’t find what I accidentaly changed that make baking impossible…. Gaaaaaah!

[Thibault Caradec]

Daaaaamn! That really was a pain to do… It’s not exactly how I imagined it, I’ll see later if I can tweak it…

[Thibault Caradec]

Some changes to the scene. 

Small issue now with this change is that the front of the car lose some white nice reflection, that I’ll try to tweak with “studio lights”

And I realise that this smoke is too dense maybe, now…

[Thibault Caradec]

Probably my last WIP post here before I go into 2 small details I want to finish. 

Today was tweaks day, trying to take in count what was said during the critique livestream. 

So time has been mostly use to tweak lights, the car material and…. That’s pretty much it. 

Final things that need work : Headlights, steering wheel, and small tweaks neer the door interior. 

[Thibault Caradec]

Oh, and just because I find it funny : This is the current lighting setup :

The small black square is for unwanted reflection.  🙂

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