Green Toaster's Car Sketches

GreenToaster

GT, just follow this thread and upload your files to Kelly's server. He has ton's of space.
I followed the link but it provided a message indicating the service was no longer available.

boofredlay

Ahhhh, a link that did not get updated. That first link in the topic went to a page on the old board. I updated it, now have a go.

GreenToaster

Okay, I'll try zipping them up and posting them at another place - I don't understand how to follow the directions - create a new network blah, blah, blah.

Here's another experiment . . . didn't turn out very well . . . good learning experience though . . .

boofredlay

@greentoaster said:

I don't understand how to follow the directions - create a new network blah, blah, blah.

I don't know why but that just made me crack up.

Why don't you think your latest did not turn out that well. You got those fenders smooth man. Keep movin' on

GreenToaster

. . . practice doesn't make perfect, practicing it the right way makes perfect . . . at least, that's what I always tell my students . . .

With no pun intended, I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels, making no progress - although - I did learn something really cool today and hope to be using this newfound technique often (dragging vertices (sp?)) . . .

Gaieus

Brad,

Although I did indeed like your "older" models, too, I definitely see some serious improvement in these last two pictures - provided that your goal is to build cars that are more alike the ones in "real life".

GreenToaster

Thanks - I'm honestly not too concerned about "reality" - I'm just having fun.

It might not look like it, but the more I play with it, the more fun I'm having.

Having lots of fun is, of course, and perhaps especially in my case, not always synonymous with progress.

I can't believe I learned that new trick - I just grabbed a vertex and began dragging it - then I tried it with adjacent vertices and viola!, a cool new surface was born! I didn't know you could do that. I love this stuff.

BTW - I saw a show yesterday about Google - either History channel or Discovery I believe. I had no idea how big the company is - I wish they had mentioned SketchUp but I guess it's such a small entity that it gets overlooked in a short program. In case I've never mentioned it, THANK YOU for SketchUp!!!

GreenToaster

. . . more playing around . . .

GreenToaster

Unfortunately, my vacation comes to an end - this might be my last fun with SketchUp for a while . . . more playing around with some simple shapes . . . I'll try to get some more play time soon . . . thanks for all the encouragement - thanks for being patient with me - I'm slow but I'm happy.

Ivan K

all of that looks amazing! great job!

GreenToaster

@unknownuser said:

all of that looks amazing! great job!
Thanks but you should see what professionals do - my stuff is very elementary, simple and downright embarrassing when compared to many others.

Here's another super quick model - more of the same "boring" technique, but fun and fast . . .

GreenToaster

I discovered a new way to do sweeping edges --> roof uses an inverted triangle with the Follow Me tool - I like the way the roof turned out: sloped and curved.

GreenToaster

. . . last one tonight . . . (sound of me snoring) . . .

boofredlay

I am reminded of the pinewood derby I used to race.

Ivan K

@greentoaster said:

@unknownuser said:

all of that looks amazing! great job!
Thanks but you should see what professionals do - my stuff is very elementary, simple and downright embarrassing when compared to many others.

I've seen some pros at work. I also do some car designing, not on the level I'd like, but i'm not bad with 3D Studio with NURBS. Sketchup really isn't the best platform for car design, but it is one of the easiest to jump into and one of the easiest, if not the easiest to get a hang of...

Kind of a drag when i have to go back to Studio since studio is little more complex and redundant with its actions. You're doing well, and the edges are really nice

GreenToaster

. . . sort of a Hummer type of thing . . .

bonj

@greentoaster said:

. . . sort of a Hummer type of thing . . .
Wow...i wish i could those things too.....

GreenToaster

. . . I need a life . . . hard to tell probably, but I'm trying a simple new thing . . . I try to limit my time on these to ten minutes or less (importing wheels) . . .

GreenToaster

. . . today's quickie . . .

Gaieus

They are really cool, Brad. Maybe they won't ever look like real cars but believe me, you are just developing your special, own style everyone here seems to like and can be identified from a mile away...