Corvette Vision Stingray Concept

omiKron

That's very impressive...

I notice the emblem is kind of glowing in the dark scenes?

Thank you all for the appreciations yeah, I guess it's the glossy plastic too glossy

ely862me - wow, it's that some kind of magic ? looks great what you did with the front fender wheel arch I don't mind at all, brighter image too which brings the metallic grey in attention, thanks

hellnbak - yes I have been told before to stick with car design ... well I've been doing this in high-school even since elementary I've been drawing cars and jetliners, never thought I'll start modeling cars even if I take it just like a hobby of mine... who knows, after I get my signature as an architect I will do some master in design.

Well the interior for this car will take much more than the body, especially in SU, and I don't have any reference drawings or blueprints, just pictures and designs of the concept found on Google. So it is kind of "eye-metric" modeling and won't be so identical to the real life thing.

This rendered today while I was at the University. Ugh... still too dark.

Wireframe high-res + stuff from the work-in-progress.

Poly count before beveling wheel arches :

Poly count after beveling wheel arches :

Not that big difference but it looks better, I guess...

omiKron

Remade the door windows and windshield :

Krisidious

That is some very efficient geometry... I think this car needs to be in rFactor 2.

omiKron

Thanks, that's very kind in a few days the body will be ready because I got my hands on the Artisan plugin

Well it's a first time when I'm working with this plugin, so here's how it looks I'm veeerrry excited !

with the old geometry

Now the polygons go to the count at over 120k

hellnbak

@omikron said:

I got my hands on the Artisan plugin

Oh no! Another car modeler goes over to the dark side

omiKron

@hellnbak said:

@omikron said:

I got my hands on the Artisan plugin

Oh no! Another car modeler goes over to the dark side

Why's that ? Just a tryout nothing more, nothing less... I saved both versions, but to be honest, I like the original version of my model and I think I'll use the plugin to adjust the wheel arches and to smooth those air intakes.

Krisidious

Artisan may smooth it out a bit and such but your original geometry was very impressive for hand built. I have Artisan and only wish I had more use for it. I mostly model standard geometric shapes, I hardly ever get a chance to do anything organic or as complex as cars. You're surely going to be one to watch. Make sure to check out all of HellnBack's cars. He'll blow your mind with detail.

omiKron

@krisidious said:

Artisan may smooth it out a bit and such but your original geometry was very impressive for hand built. I have Artisan and only wish I had more use for it. I mostly model standard geometric shapes, I hardly ever get a chance to do anything organic or as complex as cars. You're surely going to be one to watch. Make sure to check out all of HellnBack's cars. He'll blow your mind with detail.

Grazie.

Question before I start getting my fingers in details : Artisan plugin can subdivide portions or only complete geometry parts ?

Krisidious

It will try to subdivide anything you choose. it has different levels of working. you can free form with it and choose iteration amounts, or you can choose already built geometry and apply a subdivision to it. sometimes it works well, other times it doesn't. I normally think I've messed some thing up when it doesn't work.

omiKron

It gave me an error when trying to subdivide the windshield (even if it doesn't need any more smoothing) because I intersected a volume with it in order to create the black border as on the real cars. Works perfect and fast on wheel arches and selected geometry. It can mess up things if you don't have correct triangles or squared geometry.

Here it is :

Wheel Arch Smoothed

ely862me

I retouched a bit the pictures in Photoshop (filters-reduce noise,curves-to brighten the dark areas-- bla bla ) and the wheel arch with the pen tool(I made a smooth arch) and smudge tool(covering the sharp edges).

It's a long story to subdivide an entire car. First of all you need to model it with that in mind. There are specific rules for Artisan, and you learn them mostly by trials !
Here's an interesting topic where you can see a lot of works with artisan http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=335&t=42938&hilit=artisan+collection#p382310 .