Motorcycle: Ducati 1098

[prayas]

And again.

Although the Buell isn't finished for the final rendering i needed some other bike to get away a little from the fine tuning. Tweaking render settings isn' t exactly what i call fun. I'm more of a modeling guy.

So here comes the beauty. Ducati 1098. I just love the form of this bike. It's a V2 of course.

Give me some critics if you can. I know some parts are not right so far. Modeling from photos right now because the prints in the manual are badly drawn. Lot of distortion in them. If anyone has a nice big and mostly orthogonal front view for me that would a great help. Maybe i need to drive to the ducati dealership and take my trusty canon with me to do some photos myself.

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[blindacideye]

hey man, nice start, great materials, need to work on the red paint though alittle bit, i just have a few things that i saw needed to be corrected, deeper tire tread, the fuel tank needs to have sharper edges along the side and needs to have a bigger dip toward the top of it, and other changes in the back part of the body in front of the side vent needs to be alittle more rounded but other than that looks fantastic! Keep it up!!

[Mertz]

its a great start, with a few tweaks what you've made will be perfect
the only thing i noticed is the tank looks too smooth and needs a chamfered edge

[andybuck]

hey, looks like a great start, ure inspiring me to model a bike after my car but can we see unsmoothed wires and clays please the colour renders are hard to spot errors in cheers!

oh and u probably already have this link but ima post it anyways, click next for more photos

2007 Ducati 1098 Superbike - Photo Gallery MotorcycleUSA.com

[prayas]

@blindacideye can you use a litlle paintover for the spot in the seat part? I don't know which part needs to bee rounded. The tank is far from finished so it's good to post it early. You spotted some problems i didn't see. Thx.

@Mertz Thank you very much. I will try my best. Tank not finished like i said above. At first it looked easy to model this tank. Believe me, it's a real tricky part. Started it twice allready. The one you see is nr. 3 and still not the way i want to see it.

@andybuck i'm was not in the mood for cars for a while but after reading through some posts here in the forums i think after this beauties i need to do a car again. thx for the link. The three photos from the tricolore version are new so some for the collection. The rest is all official press stuff.
If you like to do a bike i got a link for you. Great images to start with in very very high resolution. Bikewalls.com - Motorcycle wallpapers - free! there is a lot of great stuff. All the images i used for the Buell and the Duc came from there.

So back to the modeling. Clay render will be up tomorrow.

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[alanguer]

Here:

Ducati Foundation

some photos of the 1098s "tricolore" I photographed during a Ducati Conference @ the factory in Bologna (Italy)

Good work!

Alan

[prayas]

@alanguer thank you very much. i'm not quite sure if i do the tricolore in the end. i just don't think ducati needs other colors than red, but i'm the same with ferrari ( no i relly think thats the only car i would not drive in black ).
Your photos are good. I know we got a ducati dealer in Berlin so i need to make some on my own. The shot of the backpart behind the seat helped me allready. Now i know how these little black parts with the mesh sit in there.

more tomorrow. i need some sleep now and the box needs some rendertime.

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[prayas]

none of the new parts added so far. just the clay renders you wanted. i spotted some easy mistakes with these views. basically round the tank and the frame. anyway here they are.
maybe you see even more.

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[prayas]

started to get the front faering in place. It's a tricky piece. The Photoref is mostly not usable but i think i managed to get something nice so far. Headlight inserts are next.

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[prayas]

So the first part of the lower fairing is finished. Added the headlights in and made some adjustments on the windshield. The corners were to sharp.
The headlight is giving me some trouble but so far it's ok. I will rework some spots of it later on.
The lower part was easy but the tricky stuff is still to be done.

Any good tutorials an how to make the projector beam headlights look real. How do you set them up. Need to finish this on the Buell XB12R too.

Anyway here is the colorfull stuff.

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