Show off your projects you are working on

[Johnas]

Purpose of this topic is to let you show your unfinished work here if you don't want to make a new topic. I recommend to use our attachment system or use thumbnails(Photobuckets or Imageshacks etc) when posting your renders or screenshots. If you don't want to use them please keep it under 640x480

[RedStar]

Here is something I did last week. Took me a total of 12 hrs to complete and was done for a client using 7 reference images. The cars name is Tata Sumo and it is an Indian car with almost no reference online lol.

[pedro.malheiro]

veery great work... and in 12h? amazing work

[schaefft]

Hahaha, 7 reference pictures. XD Looks like a good job, well done and fast.

[Icekid84]

Why does the hood raise up towards the front ? Not very aerodynamic if you ask me.. Anyhow for the time it took, looks great but meh ugly suv thats for sure

[ibeam]

it looks a bit like a g-class rip-off. looks nice though.

ibeam

[Icekid84]

Well usually I like to not ask for assistance but meh I'm having trouble with transition to high poly lol.. Id like to attempt it though. Anyhow I started this a couple hours ago and meh... its not that great.. I feel like certain areas could be better. I mean right now I'm not really concerned about accuracy ( I'll get that later) I really want technique and areas to improve on. So here is my WIPs.

BTW.. I thought to use this thread because its new.. and if I feel up to it I'll make it have its own thread, but right now its too experimental.

[greenvampire]

good idea for a thread, heres some of my sha-bang clogging up the closet

Peterbilt 351 - yep, still aint finished :? I've been plodding along with it, in reality its probably not that far away, but finding the time is just impossible.

Website / Drive-in - I'm currently in the middle of re-doing my website, with a truely Epic intro animation, its based around a Drive-In movie, out in Texas... no sneak peaks though sorry peeps


all in all, I have little to no time for personal projects atm, I'm working freelance for a games company, 13 / 14 hour days, my only free day being Sunday.... but due to recent building work on the house, my free time is taken up decorating and getting my new office ready ( I will post pics when done )

So I guess.... watch this space! 0_o


I've attached a render of the peterbilt... not sure if I ever uploaded this one to its WIP thread here, but this was a month or 4 ago lol .... its progressed a teeeeeny bit since then..... you know, moved a vertex lmao

[greenvampire]

IceKid, join up everything to get rid of those 5 + 6 sided polys, and it should smooth out perfect i'd imagine

[RedStar]

Ik - Its lookin good man! Although, why are you using reference when we have blueprints of that car?

[Xoliul]

Hey Icekid, why aren't you using blueprints ? There's some really good ones. I also have tons of (self-made) ref on this car.

[Icekid84]

GV : the Pete looks great, nicely detailed Also yeah I think I see what you mean.. I did that on the rear, I'm just so used to what chamfers do on my game cars, so I was timid about it.

Redstar : THanks, glad you like.. maybe I'll actually finish it and take it all the way.. not sure though lol

Xoliul : hey, well I dont like to get caught up in prints. Reason I chose this car was Ive done it a number of times and felt I knew it better than a new car.I sometimes say, " I dont like not being able to model any car I want because a print doesnt exist. I mean I know they exist for this car, but its like I dont want to get to used to them since so many cars I like/want to model dont have them.. its like training for me lol , yeah sounds geeky/wierd.

[greenvampire]

cheers icekid,
I know what you mean about the prints, its more of a gratifying process when you model from ref photos, and it always a good help if you know the car well!

[Johnas]

I use prints (if there are) in the beginning to make the basic shape. When I get to the details, I only use referencepics. Wouldn't be problem for me to model a car without prints either, matter of taste also me thinks

[RedStar]

So an update from my end. I have been learning other stuff besides car modeling and here is one of my tests. This is a chair leg. I did not model the leg but here is a picture of it in its default state. Than I put it into Mud box did all the detailing there, put it into max. UVmaped it. And than rendered out normal/spec/diffuse maps.

[Icekid84]

WOW.. thats impressive.. meh I need to learn to read through posts... lol mud box.. ahh the tool they use for face's too right? Not used or seen it in action but heard of it. Great job

[RedStar]

Yeap basiclly you throw your model in there subdivide it and sculpt right on the model and export it. And it comes in a polygon format kinda thing. Its cool though.

[flux]

shows how powerful normal mapping is

[Dark_Knight]

THAT IS ALL! *runs away*

(mental ray did some wierd blemishes on the car, avoid making note of that )

[dissaster]

hi , i'm really happy about this threat cause I wanna to give some advice to continue or to stop
but i don't know where to put my project
Any way I really like the Amg black series last child (except the rims , they are like stolen from RR phantom or something) so i try to make a blueprint from refenrence photos, and wanna know did youy guys like it, it's still just the begining, and i know i have still much work on them C&c are verry welcome, this my first try of this type