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# 1 21-06-2010 , 08:49 PM
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s400 hybrid

yup its another car .a friend is making a video and needed some vfx shots of a car chase so i was quite happy to take on the challenge

so here is my basic model unsmoothed

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# 2 21-06-2010 , 08:51 PM
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smoothed version

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# 3 21-06-2010 , 08:54 PM
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started to block in the details

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# 4 21-06-2010 , 08:55 PM
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a quick test render

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# 5 21-06-2010 , 08:57 PM
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Nice car as always murambi
Are you going to do some animation..............dave




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# 6 21-06-2010 , 09:04 PM
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yup just purchased more ram for this but alot of it will be done in after effects the only thing that ill render out in maya will probably the car movements

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I hope you can post your work here when your done, how are you doing your tyer is it a bump map.........dave




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# 8 21-06-2010 , 09:30 PM
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Looking nice indeed.

I circled a few places that looked like the edges are curving in too much.

Also, your images probably don't need to be so large (just don't want them to delete your posts)

Good work so far, I like it.

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# 9 21-06-2010 , 09:59 PM
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Looks good as usual mate!!! burning wrecks?? wayward driving? sounds like fun!

cheers bullet

P.S if you are doing a PrtSc then into paint, save as the jpeg then I use the standard 'Microsoft Picture Manager' to edit and resize in there mate. Its got it in the dropdown for webmail size screen grabs


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# 10 21-06-2010 , 10:04 PM
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here tis, aarrrrr just pointing out this is not a WIP (thanks dave) its a resize pic for murambi..LOL sorry mate. Dont want to see these great pics deleted.

cheers bullet

P.S murambi (and anyone else) have you guys got a dropbox account or yousendit or similar?? I try to put my pics in there then just post the link to SM. Keeps the site clutter free and you can put really good hi res pics in there without the need to resize. Just a thought

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# 11 22-06-2010 , 10:38 AM
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I hope you can post your work here when your done, how are you doing your tyer is it a bump map.........dave

yup its a bump but depending on time i might actually model the tyre tread

I circled a few places that looked like the edges are curving in too much. Also, your images probably don't need to be so large (just don't want them to delete your posts)

i havent gotten to adding "thickness" to those parts yet dont worry about them. i have a 26 inch so i images that are about 640 by 480 really look small and you cant see much of the detail but ill make them smaller

P.S murambi (and anyone else) have you guys got a dropbox account or yousendit or similar?? I try to put my pics in there then just post the link to SM. Keeps the site clutter free and you can put really good hi res pics in there without the need to resize. Just a thought

i usually dont like to do that cause sometimes people really feel lazy(myself included) to start clicking on those links
to view images so i like to make it as easy as possible to view the images

# 12 22-06-2010 , 11:06 AM
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LOL ok mate...Im lazy too cos when I click on mine it goes to slideshow for me, Im even lazier LOL user added image

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# 13 24-06-2010 , 02:02 PM
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update worked on the door and the back fender i do have the odd triangle here and there trying to sort it out

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# 14 24-06-2010 , 02:03 PM
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a quick render not too pleased with the reflections though

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# 15 24-06-2010 , 02:10 PM
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Looking sweet m8. I'm ready to hop in and take her for a spin.


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