Ford Crown Victoria NYC Taxi

KMiklas

Hello!

A model I finished recently. It was made for Sketchfab's SketchFAST contest "NY Icons".

4 days (1 for modeling, 2 for textures, 1 for final tweaking).

No normal maps (no HP model), 40k triangles (wheels take around half). 4K Diffuse + specular.

Blender, Photoshop.

Tire thread and wall: http://www.smcars.net/forums/tire-tread-sidewalls/




Clays:




Wireframe:





UV:




Turntable (8MB):

http://i.imagebanana.com/img/ku66vpkb/turntable.gif

Sketchfab:





Hope you like it!

A-N-P

This is a great model. I'm surprised to see you've included everything into one texture. Bodywork AND wheels/tyres

Nice work, man. Can you show wires?

KMiklas

Thanks! I just updated the first post.

theSixtyEight

very nice, maybe a tad oversaturated. btw you could use 1 wheel and then duplicate it and you would get more UV space and more details for body

KMiklas

@Paul: Yes, I know about UV spacing. But I baked all the lighting for the first presentation on SF, so I needed an unique mapping for all the polygons.

DWalker

The car in general, and the windows in particular, would really benefit from by adding reflection and an appropriate city environment map. http://www.humus.name/index.php?page=Textures has some nice textures, although they are mostly from Europe:

KMiklas

@DWalker: Well, maybe, yeah, but it's studio render, isn't it? :P

JostVice

That is one beautiful taxi! Really sweet looking, love the attention to detail and the good shading you got all over the mesh, your polygon layout is nice reference

What about interior/underbody? Feel like driving it around in a game

How did you go about modelling this? Used Blueprints, no?

KMiklas

Thanks! No interior and underbody is very simple.

Blueprints and lots of photos.

D4V1DC

I live in NY and I hate these guys but this model rocks, I've never liked a taxi more than right now.

Zepic

I heart this cab.

Looks great, nice job getting it out so quickly.

I'd be nice to see it with a reflection map like DWalker mentioned.

Lloydyy89

Great work Miklas!

Oniram

looks great! you would have been able to utilize more UV space by mirroring/stacking but regardless.. end result looks cool.