car scene

Jay Evans

Been a while since I've done much personal work, but a new laptop and new outlook has got me pushing polys at home again. Thought I’d mix things up and start with a car. Something I have somehow never built before. It’s part of a larger scene I have planned. Eventually everything will be setup as in-game assets for something like U3 engine. Haven’t decided yet.

As for the car I’m starting with building a nice highres model. It’s based on an image I found sitting in my reference folder. If anyone has any image credits, or any idea who made it let me know. It’s requires a little “filling in the blanks” because I only have that one perspective view.

Jesse Moody

Jay nice to see this project you have been telling me about. As far as the concept art I'm not sure. Maybe Scott Robertson but I could be wrong about that. I do love his designs though.

Looks good so far.

You going to do the interior too?

Toomas

Nice work so far.
The image is most likely Pontiac concept circa 1970.
Cause the car on it looks a lot like a mix of GTO and Firebird.

Mark Dygert

Looks like a GTO Judge?
http://www.colinsclassicauto.com/detail.php?car=143
If it is, you need the hood mounted tachometer
You might be able to scare up some more orthographic reference that could help fine tune the look. I'm not saying you shouldn't use the stylized ref you have, but car nuts will crit you to death about details...

Don't forget that the ref you are using is of an action shot of the car coming off the line. The nose is pitched up and the tail is down. If you're not going to feature the car in this action pose then you should pull the rear wheels down and level out the car.

Other than that, its looking top notch, awesome work!

Jay Evans

Ya, I collected some pics of the Judge. I think I want to try and keep the concept art feel and proportions. When I lined up a side view of the Judge the proportions are quite conservative compared to the concept, but its prefect for filling in the rest of the angles, thanks. Good call on the rear wheel I’ll take a look at that back fender and drop the wheel, or jack up the back a bit.

Jay Evans

started on the interior, and then realised what a pain the interior is:P not too much left as far as high poly modeling.

tremulant

This is looking really nice dude, keep up the progress.

Em.

This is turning out awesome, it's refreshing to see a car model that isn't just an average modern day sports car, keep it up!

Mark Dygert

Hot! I really like it. It's like all the awesome pieces from all the muscle cars all rolled into one.

jeremy price

pop the hood jay... lets see the engine!

Jay Evans

haha, I was thinking about it.. then I saw this.

doing an HP model of this is just sadistic..

Armanguy

Hey nice car man, on a side note i sent my resume to slant six games for a QA tester position i tested Socom2 and Socom 3 so i hope it puts me at an advantage :P also the car looks good i love ow you did the rime how long did it take you for the high-poly?

pliang

Oh my, I see what you mean by the engine...but really if it were up to me I would at most create the seat, gasket, pipes and larger engine compartments and leave the rest.

You already have a great model, maybe just pop the hood a little bit to keep it low profile on the engine.

Toomas

You are missing door levers, if you look at the concept and pay attention then you can see it has color coded levers.
But its yumyumyuym!

Jay Evans

I think I'm calling the Highpoly done. The underside was heavily simplified; I just wanted to put some details there in case it ever catches any dukes of hazard style air. There are some details that will be added back in with texture. Now to finish off the low poly and make some normal maps… Does anyone know if games like Forza and the new GT even use normal maps on their cars? With the crazy amounts of polys they are pushing I wasn’t sure.