Vehicle modeling

Mariyan-Hristov

Hey guys I was wondering can you give me any interesting tutorials about modeling? I’m into vehicle designs – cars, tanks, helicopters, airplanes etc. I looked in the Tutorials thread and YouTube but most of the tutorials there deal with the architectural aspects of SketchUP.

cotty

ely862me has published some nice tutorials to start with: http://ely862me.webs.com/tutorials.htm

TIG

There are also many Youtube tutorials on model cars and airplanes in SketchUp...
You just need to do an appropriate search...
For example
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=SketchUp+car+&oq=SketchUp+car+&gs_l=youtube.12..0l7j0i5l3.1938.10617.0.15971.13.13.0.0.0.0.152.1104.11j2.13.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.WzBeo_9x0qk
9,1000 hits
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=SketchUp+car+modelling&oq=SketchUp+car+modelling&gs_l=youtube.3..0.23978.25966.0.26802.10.7.0.3.3.0.113.485.6j1.7.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.-RUu8ChXHpQ
63,100 hits
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=SketchUp+car+modelling+tutorial&oq=SketchUp+car+modelling+tutorial&gs_l=youtube.3...17906.20461.0.21202.9.9.0.0.0.0.102.591.8j1.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.M7D7b95GdZk
46,500 hits
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sketchup+car+modeling+real+time+workflow&oq=SketchUp+car+mo&gs_l=youtube.1.2.35i39l2j0j0i5l2.22269.29057.0.37247.16.16.0.0.0.0.94.1145.16.16.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.7lIGUS4apuU
7,710 hits

Mariyan-Hristov

Thanks for the links! I have watched all of those videos in the past. I learned a lot about low polygon modeling from them. But since I visited the 3D Warehouse, I started asking myself “What were the learning sources of all those amazing vehicle modelers?” .I searched for vehicle modeling tutorials in Google, but I didn’t find much. That is why I decided to open this thread, in case I’m missing something important

ely862me

You are missing something important, most of the good cars in the Warehouse are not made with SKetchup, they are imported from games or they are made with other 3d softwares.
Since SDS and later Artisan appeared I am anything else but low polygon modeling, especially with cars . http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=333&t=42397

Anyway, don't think Artisan would do wonders if you don't know how to make a clean,well proportioned model.

pilou

Try This guy!
ixlrlxi

Many tuts inside, just scroll the 26 pages gallery!
Sketchup modeling VRay rendering

By ixlrlxi

Also on Youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv8gECOxLxY&feature=c4-overview&list=UUSn24WeMuT-MAAHNcPa22JQ

Mariyan-Hristov

Thanks a lot for the links ! ely862me your videos were incredibly helpful for my sketchup studies.I hope I post some of my polygon designs soon

Marian

Also have a look at these threads about. They probably don't add a lot more to what you already learnt from Ely and others, but could be helpful.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=335&t=37611
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3961&p=19894#p19894
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=2650

Tanks

http://giganaut.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/

Planes
(download the archive file included in the first post as the links don't work anymore)
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=13036&p=95245#p95245