Hello everyone! It's been a loooong time since I last posted here. First of all, I need to tell all of you. THANK YOU. Thank you for putting up with kid me. Thank you for all the words of encouragement that each and every one of you put on this thread. Each and every one of you made an impact on my, gave me something to strive for, a direction for me to follow on my path to automotive design.

A lot of things have happened since 2010. I graduated high school, tried and failed to become a mechanical engineer, took my passion for technology and made a career for myself in Healthcare doing Tech Support. But today, things are a little different. I'm proud to say that at 26, I've finally enrolled in an Industrial Design major with a specialty in Automotive Design. You all may be the only ones who can understand the impact in my life that this brings. A lot of my stubbornness to not let this crazy dream go was thanks to all of you.

I may need to learn new software, but I am back designing and I couldn't be happier. I don't know how many of you are still around, but I'd love to chat with you all and catch up. I've created a discord channel, in case any of y'all want to join. https://discord.gg/Pcy6ASw

Happy Modeling!

Bump IM BAACK

I think this is a great idea!

You know its kinda funny... ur addicted to the muscle car genre and people encourage you to try supercars and i'm addicted to supercars and people (like you) have told me to try doin a more regular every day design lol every one has their strength in the type of car

damn... yall forced me to look for it thats gaaaayyyy ugghhhh wahhhhhhh

Here's the newest in Automotive Luxury

Presenting the Sunnie XLM

What do yall think?

Thanks jopperman! anyone else just lurking around please voice your thoughts (well type lol) because any type of critique is worth alot to me. I would try the car show setting but i need a car show HDR for that anyone out there who comes across one it would be very helpful if you could let me use it. Thanx 2 all!

hey rouge i love your interiors! most of the time i make my cars and they look like empty shells with the windows colored black to not show it has no interior. I would love it if you could collaborate with me on that your interiors are great and i would also like to know how you make them. It is very vague in my memory something about you making a tutorial on interiors but i'm not so sure (im kinda lazy to look ) but if you could that would be awsome. Now about your cars i really like them i have always been a fan of your work but your cars always seem to be like very contemporary. You should make a car out of your comfort zone. Come up with some kind of design no one would come up with. Kind of like i did with the Pash i made (check it out on my thread.) it would be interesting to see what you can come up with.

Okay, here's a little update:

Pash

Zkquel

Casador GT

Eagle GTS

Please Comment on them.

Oh and check out my Recent Cars Page it's where I will be updating my site with new cars.

http://www.ray-ochoa.com/apps/blog/

And don't forget to become a member of my site if you are not already
http://ray-ochoa.com/apps/auth/signup

bump?

no actually though it's not that visible in the picture each wheel would be halved and when wanting to go to one side on half of both wheels would slow down/go backwards and that would make the bike turn

lol i kno.... he started it

lol fast sports cars turn me on.

@liam887 said:

the car models are fantastic, I especially like the Xzell. Not a fan of the bike though, its great but the mirrors and glass let it down in looks. Great renders anyway, what does hypershot offer that podium doesnt by the way?

Okay, ummm let's see....

1. Material Types (two tone paint)
2. HDRs (environment image compatibles)
3. Really fast (although this is something podium has too)
4. It lets you orbit around a constantly rendering model.

its awesome

i have tried podium actually but i dont like it as much as hypershot really nice anyway

wow, it's been a loong time since ive posted here! well here's an update. I made a total of 3 cars since the Xzell my first bike the Zike Light, my muscle car based off the Chevy Camaro, Rolls Royce Phantom, and the bentley, the Ziatti GT, and the RaVeloce inspired by, the Lamborghini Gallardo, and inspiration from the cheetah's agility and speed.

What do yall think?

Thanks guys see this is great i appreciate it.

Is there any way for a ruby to be able to create preset animation positions or some sort, what i mean is if i have a large amount of models which are all about the same size that i would like to make video of but not want to waste too much time on placing the camera for when i export a .avi movie. I hope yall ruby masters kinda have an idea of what im saying i just wanted to through it out there.

what do you mean the whole package?

@blah11 said:

OMG please I have to render that car I swear I wont steal your work I just love that car too much.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=a8c8d10571313a77dde457f88b627396&result=4Here you go....