Sketchbook: tiptop3D

tiptop3D

I have been looking through these forums for quite a while for inspiration, and just because I love looking at other peoples artwork and learning from them. Decided it was time to join the community and start posting . I'll mainly be posting 3D art, but maybe some 2D from time to time. I'd love for critiques any advise/tips that can be given about my work to improve and get better. Currently a student majoring in media arts and animation, looking to improve my skill set. Basically to become an overall better artist but mainly focusing on 3d modeling.

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Currently working on modeling a Bugatti-Veyron-Sang-Bleu. Wanted to try something that was different, unique, and organic/flowing so that I could really get a good understanding of edge flow.

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Started working on blocking out the side door, and the roof of the car.

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More blocking of the door/roof.

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Continuing on blocking it out.

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Since I blocked out the side of the car, wanted to start working on the back end.

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After messing around trying to connect the back piece and keeping the edge flow the same I decided I really didn't like how the door turned out. So I went back to my hood file and started from the back end with in mind id want to start modeling towards the hood in hoping it would make the edge flow much better.

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Here is the result of starting over on the side of the car. I think it turned out much better then my first attempt.

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Hood finished with a symmetry modifier applied.

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This is where I currently am on the car. Now that I have it blocked out, and im satisfied with it I think im going to move on to the tires so that I have something grounding the car.

njc6425

looking good man, guessing your gonna do the air intakes seperatly? other than those it looks just like the silouhette of a veyron :thumbup:

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njc6425 wrote: »

looking good man, guessing your gonna do the air intakes seperatly? other than those it looks just like the silouhette of a veyron :thumbup:

Thanks . I will definitely be doing the air intakes separately. Most likely going to do them last.

Tyler_Fozdar

Can't wait to see your treatment of the wheels. Also, post references when you get a chance.

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Tyler_Fozdar wrote: »

Can't wait to see your treatment of the wheels. Also, post references when you get a chance.

Ooo thanks for the advice. Posting the references would definitely be a good idea.

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Here is a shot of the front.

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Another view of the car.

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A shot of the back end of the car.

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Here is the reference of the tire im going to model after.

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Started with a simple spline then after some tweaking/extrusions ended up with this. Also set it up to be copied then welded together.

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Made some duplicates, welded them together then applied a bend modifier to get the shape. After that started forming the whole tire.

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Here's a close up of the tire. I still need to go back and add locking loops as well as make some changes to make the tread look more like an actual tire and to fit the reference.

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Here is my revised and finished tire. I'm very pleased how they turned out. Any tips, or critiques are more then welcome.

Skilduff

Really well done! looks so good.

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Skilduff wrote: »

Really well done! looks so good.

Thanks man. I spent a very good amount of time on it.

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Here is the reference of the rim im going to model.

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Started out with a spline, because I figured it would be the easiest way to knock out the shape of the rim that I needed. I also knew i would just want to model 1 section of it so I could then do an array or some form of copies.

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I made a copy of that spline, attached the two then did a cross section. Once I did that I applied a surface modifier then converted to a editable poly.

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Started tweaking the vertex points to refine it, and also applied a meshsmooth so I could check the curve of my geometry.

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Continued extruding edges and checking the curvature.

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Finished blocking out the section of the rim.

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Heres a perspective of shot of where Im at currently.

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Did a lot of refining, and applied a few symmetry modifiers. There is a few things I still want to tweak, mainly proportion issues.

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Gaahh been ages since I have updated this thing. Thought id post up a render I did awhile back to better understand how to use procedural's. Everything in the scene is mine, models etc. Any advice or critiques are welcome!