[WIP] Toyota 2JZ-GTE

Aga22

What is up my brothers and sisters in arts!
I've been working on a new project (well, it was new when it started, about a year ago) ,the well known (in whoever messes with cars) toyota 2JZ.

I started this over 1 year ago but work, family, and home projects leave little time for personal projects. but i click on it whenever i find time. They say a picture is  1000 words, so i'll get on with it.
Initially i block out everything with basic shapes, then retopo manually over it.










To take a break from the engine block i made the starter and the turbo

Aga22

oil pan is ready!

Aga22

haven't posted an update in so long, but that doesnt mean i havent been working on it. still a work in progress and many objects are still block-ins

Quantm

Are they all plain retop poly or boolean as well? I find it hard making complex shaped model like that. Would love to see wireframe of your model

Aga22

no booleans, all hand-retopo'd

Goco

Excellent work Aga22! Looks great.

Aga22

Goco said:

Excellent work Aga22! Looks great.

thanks man, i love your stuff !

Goco

Thank you,

When are coming exhaust manifold, turbo and external wastegates ?

Aga22

the external is ready, the manifold is next

Goco

Looks great.. 

Nice clean renders, this is done by a Vray render or ?

Alex_J

really cool. 

Whenever I see things like this, I wonder what kind of reference the author is working from. Do you have a bunch of parts available that you can take pictures of? Or you are able to find reference images of all the parts you need? 

Quantm

Aga22 said:

no booleans, all hand-retopo'd

Never realized the block-in retopo workflow. Always thought that workflow's for character design only.. or that it's done by NURB modelling.. Talk about being narrow minded and getting frustrated when trying to model straight up with box/plane modelling technique...

wannabe

That looks pretty amazing, I'll try and get an engine model for my porsche done as well. Hoping to match this level of quality! Thumbs up

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Goco said:

Looks great.. 

Nice clean renders, this is done by a Vray render or ?

the external is and older model so it was mental ray, the engine is vray. i gotta confess that mental ray was giving me more predictable results, but vray is more powerful and faster.

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BIGTIMEMASTER said:

really cool. 

Whenever I see things like this, I wonder what kind of reference the author is working from. Do you have a bunch of parts available that you can take pictures of? Or you are able to find reference images of all the parts you need? 

the reference is all pictures from the internet. after finishing with the big stuff i've reached a point that in order to find reference for some small items like sensors etc, i have to go to an online parts catalogue, find the part number for the part, then look it up on ebay or something to get closeup photos

Quantm

Aga22 said:

BIGTIMEMASTER said:

really cool. 

Whenever I see things like this, I wonder what kind of reference the author is working from. Do you have a bunch of parts available that you can take pictures of? Or you are able to find reference images of all the parts you need? 

the reference is all pictures from the internet. after finishing with the big stuff i've reached a point that in order to find reference for some small items like sensors etc, i have to go to an online parts catalogue, find the part number for the part, then look it up on ebay or something to get closeup photos

What about dimension? It's quite crucial and not always available. I take it stuffs like fixings and bolts are all guess work

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Quantm said:

What about dimension? It's quite crucial and not always available. I take it stuffs like fixings and bolts are all guess work

the basic dimensions (of the whole assembly) i found them on some blueprints. other than that, it is guesswork but what can you do.

Aga22

a little update

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it's DONE! close up renders will follow   the supra is a model i made like a  decade ago, just converted the materials to Vray

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