Green Toaster's Car Sketches

Roguer1

@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

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

@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

@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

@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

. . . another electric car . . .

GreenToaster

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

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

GreenToaster

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

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

GreenToaster

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

@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

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

Marian

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

Marian

back end

GreenToaster

@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

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

GreenToaster

I just sent V-Ray an email inquiry - looks like the educational version is $250. If it's worth it I'll be happy to spend the bucks - I just know very little about this stuff and I don't want to spend government money on something that's really not necessary or best value.

We lease many seats of 3DS at school but I don't know how to use it - would that work well for our rendering needs? Doesn't Blender also do rendering? I need to figure out what options are available and how they compare in price & performance. Maybe someone has created a current matrix showing this information?

Thanks,

Brad

GreenToaster

. . . nothing special . . . typical GreenToaster stuff . . .

GreenToaster

I can't remember if I ever posted this one or not - I was perusing through some of my carchives (get it, ha) and found this one, tossed on a few details and here tiz.

Happy Sketching,

Brad