Sugar Rush Vehicle

Kalilak11

I am currently working on constructing a vehicle inspired from the wold of Sugar Rush. I started with a concept, modeled, and sculpted it. I am currently working on the textures. The goal is to make the car look like it belongs in the movie. I am going for cinematic quality, instead of a game asset for this project.
I would really appreciated any feedback or critique you can give me. Thank you.


These are the silhouettes for various vehicle concepts before I really nailed down my idea.

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Here is the design I chose and the character I designed to go with it.

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A beauty render of the car with a color pallet.

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This is a work in progress render of the sculpted model. I worked back and forth between. 3DS Max and Zbrush.

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Here is a WIP of the character. I decided to name her Poko. I also came up with a logo design as well.

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Here is a wireframe of the finished model. Now it I am beginning the texturing phase.

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Here is another work in progress for Poko the sculpt is almost completed at this point.

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At this point I have unwrapped everything. I am now playing with materials. Here, I have blocked out color and at this point I will be taking it one material at a time and start playing with different settings until I get the look that I am going for.

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Here it is with the materials applied. They need a bit more tweaking, but they are almost done!

KristaW

This may be something you want to keep in mind for the next project, seeing how you are almost done with this one, but the topology on the vehicle is not efficient at all. It looks like a high poly wireframe that is ready for retop. I'm not saying that you need to make a really low poly vehicle. But if you look at the wireframe on the large horns?/exhaust pipes? you could support those sleek shapes with 1/10th of the amount of edgeloops that you have given it. Same with the back wheel, the seat, the gum drops, the back exhaust pipes, etc... I get that you said you are going for cinematic instead of game rez but you should still be efficient with topology.

I like the idea of anything made out of candy so I think the vehicle is adorable btw. The back wheel's material is confusing me atm. The frosting material is really working though.

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Thank you for the critique! I was unsure from the beginning whether or not to retopo, but now that I have unwrapped, and am about to animate, I realize you are right. My topology needs work.

The straws coming from behind the seat are meant to shot out hard candy at other players. (similar to mario kart)

I also agree with you about the back wheel. Here is the reference image I have been using.

Making the material look more like the picture will be one of my goals for the week.
Thank you again for the critique, it is much appreciated.

KristaW

Ooo, I don't know if you already have a plan for making the sugar coating for that back wheel material but it could be done pretty easily with a spec map that isn't just black and white but with dot of light color. Let me know if I'm not making sense. I made a candy village once and this is how I made colorful sugar coating on some of my candies.



It would still be pretty effective with just white dots on black though.

Kalilak11

Thanks for the tip! I will definitely try that.

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Here are some taffy trees that are going to be in my animation. They are done being modeled, and they are unwrapped. I have all of the camera angles laid out, and basic primitives are in place of the actual objects. Here is the link to the pre-vis if anyone cares to look as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbjYXGailo&feature=youtu.be

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Here is an updated version of the character and her re-topo. I probably won't model past her waist because once she is in the car, no one is going to see her legs. The only thing left to model on her is her hair, and the topology still needs a bit of optimizing.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=entQpVKf5dc&feature=youtu.be

Here is what I have so far for the animation. This is the last week! Unfortunately, I couldn't add the character due to the time crunch. This next week will be more rendering and compositing.