Toyota 1985 4Runner

[Chrisfischer90099009]

Well, this is my first project at smcars. In fact it is my very first vehicle to model in 3d. I am a total noob.

I will be making my truck, a 1985 Toyota 4Runner SR5.
Wish me luck and help me along the way.


For some reason, blueprints don't exsist on the internet of a first gen 4runner, so I will be making them myself. Here is the progress I have so far.

After taking about 60 pics of my truck using the method multimediaman described in his request thread, I came up with these compilation pics.











Then I went into illustrator for like 8 hours and have this so far.






And that is where I stand at the moment.
What do you think?
Tell me if I'm doin something wrong so I can learn...

[clix101]

looks like your doing a great job keep it up and make sure u donate the prints at the end lol

[TomiL]

Awesome truck. Looks like first gen Hilux. But anyway I like your print progres sofar

[feral1]

bp's are looking real good, keep it going.


feral1

Make sure you add much realism in your prints

[DrumBoPing]

very good looking prints, wish i had the kind of patience for that

[Chrisfischer90099009]

Thanks for all the praise. I hope to be totally finished with the prints tonight, and of course, I will definatly share them.

[Chrisfischer90099009]

Here is what I have right now. More to come tomorrow.

[revelli]

what a lovely bp so far

[Chrisfischer90099009]

Well last week I tried to model the truck using this box modeling tut.
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...0&page=1&pp=15

Needless to say with my lack of skill in the modeling department, I was unsuccessful after 3 long attempts to transform his round car into my blocky truck.

I need to get at least a good rough model to turn in for school(May 11).




What is the easiest(NOOB!) method for modeling a boxy truck.
Thanks for your time.
-Chris

[revelli]

i would prefere polygon by polygon method

[feral1]

I would look in the tutorial section,they have some real good ones in there.
Have a look at REDSTARS tutorial, that will help a lot.

[Chrisfischer90099009]

This is what I got after my post from yesterday. I quickly found this on google.
http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/..._modeling_max/

It definatly helped me and this is my progress as of now.










I had a lot of fun getting this far!
Suggestions?

[Icetiger01]

very good by now

[Xoliul]

I'm just a beginner, but I wouldn't have made the doors seperatly, but modelled them together with the body, and add the creases afterwards.

Other than that, great work for a first I'd say

[Chrisfischer90099009]

Just curious, how come?

It seems strait forward enough. Do you think I will really have that much trouble getting them to fit?

[NightEye]

Won't be too much trouble. You can simply copy the outer vertices, and make the door from that.

The wire looks really clean! You just gotto work on your seams, they look a bit roundish. Nice work!

[Xoliul]

Indeed, I guess it's not too much trouble to create them afterwards. I'd just think you can be more sure the shape of the door is just right.

[Chrisfischer90099009]

After some work, after I got off work.





I haven't really started working with the smoothing yet, just trying to get the geometry down. So I know that some edges need work. I am really having a blast so far.

For when I get to it... is there an efficient way to control how hard an edge is when smoothing other than adding geometry using chamfer? Thanks in advance.

[TomiL]

Looks mighty fine. Makes me wanna try multimediamans method for blueprints. Anyway modeling looks clean so far and the car itself rocks!