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LP640 Roadster : serious update

Tom — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:59:58 +0000

There are some seriously good 3D modelers around there, doing an excellent job everytime they put their fingers on a new car. So I felt the urge to focus more on the quality of my models. I’ve been away from modeling several months, so it was a good opportunity to resume working on the LP640 Roadster : I performed serious rework on it, starting with a much better spline cage, more accurate with cleaner and smoother lines.

I started then to fully remodel the hood, front bumper, front fenders. Then time has come for sides : doors, side skirts, rear fenders, top air intakes. I just keeped the previous rear end, as it was already good enough in my opinion, and the engine cover.

Here are some clay renders of the model, I hope it shows the new surfaces quality clearly.

It’s definitely a long-term project : I started it almost 2 years ago. But I’m still fascinated by this car : so impressive, so powerful, so extreme. I think I will get back to it soon

Murcielago LP640 Roadster : updates !

Tom — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:38:20 +0000

The progress is getting slower, but I’m still working on this project. Here’re some details.

First and second pictures present some details in the door bay. Third one shows the beginning of the windshield.

New project : Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Roadster

Tom — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:35:42 +0000

After my last project (and victory !), I wanted to start something different. Enough of british cars, enough of lightweights. It’s time for muscle, lot of muscle, and lot of horsepower !

My goal for this project is to model as detailed as I can. Not every single nut and bolt, because I don’t have access to some kind of assembly / dissambly guide, but at least the most detailed model I’ve done ever.

So I choosed a modern and famous car, because it’s far more easy to get good reference pictures of such a car, whereas the Marcos was really rarely shoot in details.

For a short time I considered learning Rhino just to give NURBS modeling a try. But I don’t really want to afford the license, and I don’t want neither a trial time-limited version nor a warez software. So I’ll stuck to Blender, and will try the new develoment branch of Yaf(a)Ray, the successor to YafRay (because YafRay doesn’t work any longer with newest Blender, 2.46)

Also, alternate goal is to create my own shaders : no reuse of previous shaders is possible, because of the new renderer, and no use of a off-the-shelf shader library, because none exists yet for Yaf(a)Ray !

Stay tuned for updates.