Maglev Racer

Polygoblin

Working on a scifi hover racer, concept by Brian Sum. Blockout is at a place where I can request crits so I'll be recording progress here.



C&C always welcome

Brian "Panda" Choi

Can we get a close up on the side  greeble?  I'm interested in seeing the design of it

Polygoblin

I've worked out how the magnetic levitation operates but my wife just went into labor so I'll have to draw a diagram later. lol *feints* 

Brian "Panda" Choi

Godspeed.  Hope it's a brief labor.

Polygoblin

All settled, here's the breakdown I promised.

Polygoblin

hipoly wip. using a hard mesh workflow which means I have to round things out then detail with booleans. Front half of the frame is rounded, now I need to round a second rear half that will be merged together with a union operation during detailing 

Polygoblin

frame is ready to detail. and a little more iteration on the hp render. figure this way I can tune things as I go. 



btw this is what I meant about hard mesh workflow. I'm basically merging these 3 parts together at the beginning of a boolean session so I can detail the entire chunk on top of the layer stack and still keep each major section editable. helps especially when preserving subdivision levels. 

Polygoblin

Another hipoly update. Figured out the detailing of the cockpit and inner sponsons along with some edits to the frame and progress on other pieces. There's still a lot to do but crits are welcome. 

Polygoblin

Some padded leather for the interior 

Polygoblin

hipoly wip. a few sections left to do including the driver. crits always welcome

Polygoblin

Time for a driver 

Zi0

nice details, cant wait to see it finished

LuisCherubini

Holy moly, can you show us the wireframe?
This is nuts, by your posting time I'd assume a 4+ months project.
Such an insane amount of blood in this thread

Polygoblin

Kerub said:

This is nuts, by your posting time I'd assume a 4+ months project.

The timeline is misleading. I had a baby and got a new job during this project so there were... interruptions. I appreciate the compliment though

Polygoblin

Spare time has been few and far between but I blocked out the pilot, sculpted the body and modeled the helmet. It's been a journey, this is wayyy out of my comfort zone. I have to finish the gloves and seatbelt then I'll be ready to do final beauty renders. 

Polygoblin

Wrapped this racer up, thanks for viewing my progress! 
Artstation link: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aR6bPz









Concept by Brian Sum

TheGabmeister

Fine work indeed.

LuisCherubini

Nice, works like this makes me thing about the original concept flaws.
I'd be curious on how a more equilateral camera field of view would actually match the perspective implied by Brian Sum. Awesome work, your consistency deserves a trophy. 

Polygoblin

@LuisCherubini - thank you! I tried various FOVs and decided to go with a look that is quite different from the concept. Mostly inspired by the anime Redline.  

A few people asked to see wireframes so I put another shot together. It's not too informative thanks to the smooth boolean workflow, however.