PETROL/BLOOD - Nick Carver

Nick Carver · Jul 2014

Hey fellas,

Here are couple of vehicle concepts for the contest. I have some rough designs for the drivers too which I'll post soon.

Not sure if I'll have the chance to finish the assets for either one of these, but designing is fun!

Cheers,

Nick.

tacit math · Jul 2014

damn !!! spoil us with some more views please nick. super rad stuff man

Nick Carver · Jul 2014

Cheers fella!

Here are some renders of the blockout models since you asked so nicely!

killnpc · Jul 2014

looking fantastic.

looprix · Jul 2014

hrmm I like them both. But the green quad rotor is more unique

BeardyDan · Jul 2014

Yeah green one is my favourite, looks cool!

JacqueChoi · Jul 2014

very coool!

how are you concepting it?

EarthQuake · Jul 2014

Cool stuff Nick, it looks like you're concepting straight in 3d these days? I'm partial to the buggy.

Nick Carver · Jul 2014

Cheers guys!

JacqueChoi: Scruffy thumbnails and then modelling in Maya followed by a quick render in Keyshot that I paint over in PS.

EarthQuake: I've been doing concepting in 3d for vehicles, weapons etc. for years. It's just the quickest way for me to get something useable together.

Here's a character design for the quadcopter's pilot/racer:

Geno527 · Jul 2014

Oh man ! I love the style, very cool, and very charismatic.

LRoy · Jul 2014

Really dig the way you work. Interesting method

EarthQuake · Jul 2014

Nick Carver wrote: »

EarthQuake: I've been doing concepting in 3d for vehicles, weapons etc. for years. It's just the quickest way for me to get something useable together.

Haha yeah I know, I'm a big fan of your work. What I meant to say is you're putting a lot more detail in them these days. You used to do more basic 3d and paintover for a lot of the detail, unless I'm remembering wrong. Its cool to see you go straight to the detailed 3d concept.

Wait, I'm being dumb. Seeing your blockout here it looks like you're still doing a lot of over-painting. It just looked like awesome 3d at first glace. You had me fooled. :poly124:

Nick Carver · Jul 2014

The blockouts for the vehicles have more geometric detail than the character, but I'm still doing a fair amount of work in PS. In the case of the quadcopter for instance, I did 3 renders with different materials (painted metal, rusted metal, chrome) and I then used masks with bevel and emboss turned on in the layer styles to blend between them. It's fun to scratch away the paint on the top layer using a custom brush to expose the metal below. I also did something similar to add the rivets etc. If I get the chance I'll show some examples (if you're interested).

Safemilk(Daniel) · Jul 2014

Would love to see those examples myself, sounds really cool!

Nick Carver · Jul 2014

Here's an image to explain the process. Let me know if you have anymore questions. One thing I forgot to mention in the notes, makes sure to turn pressure sensitivity on for opacity in the brush settings to blend between the layers.

blending+material+renders.jpg