Green Toaster's Car Sketches

GreenToaster · 29 Jul 2008, 12:06

Hey Ray or GreenToaster, do you know how to use that smooth function. It baffels me totally.

[1] select the geometry you wanna smooze
[2] with screen cursor over selected geometry, right click, pick "Soften/Smooth Edges"

@unknownuser said:

Models are looking good btw.

Thanks - I'm just having fun, I don't take this very seriously - I guess that's obvious though.

@unknownuser said:

i like tha last one very sporty.

Thanks - I fixed the cabin - it was too close to the front, proportions were way off, but, it took 12 seconds to make it better.

@unknownuser said:

im happy about hearing you got sub and smooth how is it workin for ya?

Sub & smooth works great, I just can't figure out how to make it do much with concept car designs - superb for making happy creatures like "Sergeant Bunny" below . . . I'm having fun with it and will continue to work with it until I discover how it'll help. Certainly, it is fantastic for smoothing & so forth - like any tool, only as good as the user, eh?

Happy Sketching,

Brad

GreenToaster · 29 Jul 2008, 14:24

Today is my last day of vacation so I probably won't be posting any more concepts for a while. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I did this one - the front fenders were shaped using the subdivide & smooth script. Obviously, I need a lot more practice with that tool. All the other geometry was done "manually."

Happy Sketching,

Brad

GreenToaster · 29 Jul 2008, 21:16

. . . WIP . . . I usually don't build them using this technique but I guess it works okay . . . this one is very rough, but it's easy to align and smooth out the bumps using the scale tool . . .

Happy Sketching,

Brad

Roguer1 · 30 Jul 2008, 00:52

@greentoaster said:

@unknownuser said:

Hey Ray or GreenToaster, do you know how to use that smooth function. It baffels me totally.

[1] select the geometry you wanna smooze
[2] with screen cursor over selected geometry, right click, pick "Soften/Smooth Edges"

Thanks for the help but I actually meant the one in the sand box (i thought you were talking about that one)

GreenToaster · 30 Jul 2008, 01:14

I don't use the sand box - I have cats and so, I stay away from sand boxes . . .

But really, I never use it - what does it do?

RayOchoa · 30 Jul 2008, 02:09

@greentoaster said:

I don't use the sand box - I have cats and so, I stay away from sand boxes . . .

But really, I never use it - what does it do?

Its for making terrain and things in that form. you can make nice smooth tweaking

GreenToaster · 30 Jul 2008, 02:21

@unknownuser said:

Its for making terrain and things in that form. you can make nice smooth tweaking

So, Ray, do you use it?

Should I be using it?

Am I ever going to start detailing and rendering?

RayOchoa · 30 Jul 2008, 04:12

@greentoaster said:

@unknownuser said:

Its for making terrain and things in that form. you can make nice smooth tweaking

So, Ray, do you use it?

Should I be using it?

Am I ever going to start detailing and rendering?

I use it when I'm experimenting with the shape of the car but its not THAT important of a tool don worry bout it

GreenToaster · 3 Aug 2008, 12:03

. . . another electric car . . .

GreenToaster · 3 Aug 2008, 12:43

If you look at the low number of poly's in this model you can get an idea how fast it was created & edited . . . just another quick sketch . . .

Happy Sketching,

Brad

Marian · 3 Aug 2008, 12:48

These look nice, post a model or two, i want to render them

GreenToaster · 3 Aug 2008, 14:19

Thanks - here ya go.

They're really sloppy - for example, the geometry on the "electric car" is messed up around the front wheels - I wasn't paying attention to details or consistent geometry but rather just trying to quickly jot down an idea. Also, on the "electric car", I used SketchyFFD for some shaping - I find it's usually quicker to do shaping manually - I prefer to have more control where FFD quite often wreaks havoc with the integrity of the geometry requiring lots of time to "fix" stuff so it'll be symmetrical, & so forth. It's fun to take this one and stretch the shapes to come up with wildly different looking cars (see image(s) attached below).

I think the last car has the potential for detailing - it could be "okay" I guess - just a quick concept.

bw_car_rename_043_A.skp

bw_car_rename_044_A.skp

Marian · 3 Aug 2008, 20:33

Here's a first not much edited render....

GreenToaster · 3 Aug 2008, 21:09

WOW! I wish I knew how to do that - way cool! You make my stuff look great - thanks! I will try to figure out more of Kerkythea - very inspirational.

Thanks again,

Brad

RayOchoa · 3 Aug 2008, 21:56

@greentoaster said:

WOW! I wish I knew how to do that - way cool! You make my stuff look great - thanks! I will try to figure out more of Kerkythea - very inspirational.

Thanks again,

Brad

Thats actually Vray

Marian · 3 Aug 2008, 22:01

You are welcome.
Here's the edited one. the back is on the way

Marian · 3 Aug 2008, 22:03

It is vray, but kerky can be almost as good.

Marian · 3 Aug 2008, 22:10

back end

GreenToaster · 3 Aug 2008, 22:25

@unknownuser said:

back end

VERY NICE!!!

I will look into vray - I guess there is a forum or some links - I know almost nothing about rendering software - is one higher recommended than the other (Kerkythea vs. vray)?

Danke,

Brad

RayOchoa · 3 Aug 2008, 22:30

currently i use kerky and it gives pretty good results, but Vray is good 2 because it is implemented into sketchup and it would be good with your fast draft concepts