My Demo Reel

[Johnas]

Been thinking to make something like this long time already. My idea is to make some parts from my hometown and make a car drive through it with traffic and pedestrians. Modeling will be no problem for me but animation will I've never animated anything. Will be long project but interesting one for sure.

Started first traffic car already, Nissan Primera P10 which I will make dirty and rusty.

[LOST]

Lookin' good but you have some bumps on both fenders.

[RedStar]

Great idea man. I have to make one too but I will just make a model reel because i wana get a job as a mdoeler not animator or anything like that.

Anyways good luck with that and if you need some realy good help check out Maxforums - 3D Studio Max Artist learning resource

some good 3d max users there.

[Johnas]

Originally Posted by LOST

Lookin' good but you have some bumps on both fenders.

bad smoothing groups not bumps

Thanks Redstar, I'm sure I will need lots of help with the animation

[LOST]

Fix that and it will be perfect.
That's great idea dude! How many tris will models have?

[Johnas]

Static traffic cars will have about 5000-7000 polies of course lower is better. The car that will drive through the city will have more polies and I've been thinking that it will be Ford Mustang Fastback '66

[Xoliul]

Cool project Flash, is this for fun or do you intend on trying to get a job with it one day?
If you want to animate vehicles realisticly you could use Vehicle Studio 1.7, which is a car simulator plugin for Max. Because since we've had some animation lessons here at school, I've come to realize that I absolutely hate manual animation and would rather use fancy simulation plugins instead
I've got it here, do plan on learning it for animating my Cala once It's done and I get some time. If you wanna know more about obtaining it just hit me up on MSN .

[Johnas]

That sounds fascinating! Thanks for the tip, I'll have a look to it tonite. If I got something to ask I'll knock you at MSN ^.^

Of course would be marvellous if I'd get a job but sofar doing it for fun

[clix101]

Great idea! I've always wanted to do the same for my town, but in high poly >D lol, never got round to it for some reason :roll:

anyway looks really nice so far, keep it up

[Johnas]

Well I tried that Vehicle Studio and by golly it is nice piece of plugin

Too bad I cannot use my own models with the demo version

[revelli]

greate idea,
try to use edge padding when youre baking

[multimediaman]

take it from the expert of over-planning demo reels/3d projects... I think trying to recreate a section of existing city isn't the best plan of attack...

If I'd have it to do over again, I woudl've just modeled freely - designing the buildings as I went along, because you'll find yourself having to go back out to that same section again like you wouldn't believe.

It took me over 2,500 photos alone to try to recreate a small section of my home town, and quite frankly, I should've taken about 8,000. Gathering the resources is such a waste of time.


A better idea might be to take some model railroading catelogs, like walther's or something, and create some of the buildings in there, while trying to keep them realistically sized (model railroading stuff is compressed for smaller sizes, and only is a charicature of the buildings)

At least that way you have the refs right in front of you, as well as an idea of what type of environment would look cool.

Some of those industrial buildings like concrete processing plants, or sawmills would make for excellent models

[RedStar]

Flash i got that plugin also and WOW it rox. It is a shame demo wont allow me to use my own car either.

[Xoliul]

You demo users need to get in touch with me
Good to hear you like it though, glad I made the suggestion. I think i'm gonna try it out some more right now

[Johnas]

LoL Xol, well I'll get back to you later tomorrow then
I bought C&C Tiberium Wars and it is eating my modeling time quite alot atm

Thanks for the tip MMM, didn't think that myself at all. I also started to think that I won't make exact copy of my hometown but to make it look bit like it. Would be too much of work for sure

[Johnas]

Started another car for the reel, Volvo S60. Still very early WIP.




I'll prolly make only simple dark interior for the statistic cars so they won't take too much time to model. The main car will have more details.

[rallydriver]

Sweet! Somehow those low-poly cars that you make looks so clean and you manage to maintain the shape.