The Making Off: Land Cruiser low-poly

[rallydriver]

Hey all.

This is my weekend project. The plan is to make a low-poly Toyota HJ60 from the 1980s.
Also there is an idea that new 3d-modelers could learn from this how to start doing low-poly cars and to see how the poly structure goes.
Remember, this is just my way to do it.

Here is the start. I will be showing pics from the progress regurally:

Starting from a box: Using real car dimensions, I made the box. Real widh, height and lenght

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What I´ve done now, is that I have cutted more lines using QuickSlice. Moving Vertexes (points) and also chamfering the rooflines, A-pillar and C-pillar.

Basically, just editing the box.
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Here you can see what I´ve done now.

*Made chamfers around the side of the bonnet/fender

*Cut the basic wheel arch shapes using Cut tool in Vertex mode. You can see that I have not made any extra lines by cutting in the rear wheel arch. I just cutted my way out, just like cutting paper with scissors.

*Making some basic lines for the front grille and lights using the same Cut tool in Vertex mode.
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See how I made the lines. In real car they are deep grooves. Yet again I cutted the lines by hand. Then I selected the polys so you can see what lines I mean.

After cutting them, then I extrude them inwards to make the groove. See the pic. I also had to do several tweakings and made some normals (dont worry about them in the beginning. I just made them so you can see the grooves)
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The hood.
Again, just cut and move operations.
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The fender flare and the front lip.


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This is the way to cut round edges. See how I made a new cylinder object with 12-sides. I used it as a guide to make the headlight.
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And rest of the front is now detailed.

Total time spend on this car to get into that point: 2Hours
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Done the windows and windshield trim. Just simple Inset and extrude jobs.
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Door handles: Again, just using Cut tool to make the shape of the handle area, end then extruding inwards and out wards for the handle.

Also added a detail that the real car also has.

[AandreiI]

Sounds great, this could be very useful

[tom120934]

Nice idea. To get it fully readable, I suggest you to edit the same first post. I'm looking for more !

[rallydriver]

Update:

What I´ve done now, is that I have cutted more lines using QuickSlice. Moving Vertexes (points) and also chamfering the rooflines, A-pillar and C-pillar.

Basically, just editing the box.

[Nik]

This is a great idea indeed, since there is many beginners (like me) that needs tips and tricks.

[rallydriver]

Update:

Here you can see what I´ve done now.

*Made chamfers around the side of the bonnet/fender

*Cut the basic wheel arch shapes using Cut tool in Vertex mode. You can see that I have not made any extra lines by cutting in the rear wheel arch. I just cutted my way out, just like cutting paper with scissors.

*Making some basic lines for the front grille and lights using the same Cut tool in Vertex mode.

It may look/sound confusing since I´m not very good at making "tutorials"

[rallydriver]

Update:

See how I made the lines. In real car they are deep grooves. Yet again I cutted the lines by hand. Then I selected the polys so you can see what lines I mean.

After cutting them, then I extrude them inwards to make the groove. See the pic. I also had to do several tweakings and made some normals (dont worry about them in the beginning. I just made them so you can see the grooves)

[rallydriver]

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The hood.
Again, just cut and move operations.

[rallydriver]

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Let the pic tell itself

The fender flare and the front lip.

[nublet]

very nice tutorial. i can definitely use this. thanks for sharing with us!