Pixels or Atoms ? » Marcos 1800GT http://www.thomasbaron.net Thomas Baron tries to produce photorealistic CG images Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:51:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Marcos 1800GT : proud winner of the 60′s contest at SMC http://www.thomasbaron.net/2008/06/marcos-1800gt-proud-winner-of-the-60s-contest-at-smc/ http://www.thomasbaron.net/2008/06/marcos-1800gt-proud-winner-of-the-60s-contest-at-smc/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:29:03 +0000 Tom http://www.thomasbaron.net/?p=380 Voting process is now completed at SMC for the Psychedelic 60′s contest. And I’m very proud and honored to announce I won the contest.

Thanks to the whole SMC community, because I really feel like I’ve learnt there almost anything I know about CG and car modeling. Also, congratulations to Niray, who designed the medails for the official SMC contests.

I think I won’t enter the next contest, because I really need more than 2 months to complete a project. So the next one will be a choice on my own : 2006 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Roadster.

Stay tuned for more information about it !

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Here’re my final renders :

Marcos render 2051 Marcos render 2054

I also posted these pictures, as they show pretty well some features of the car :

Marcos render 2035 Marcos render 2033

Rendez-vous in one week for the results !

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Last year I spend some time on the Marcos 1800 GT and as it’s a 60′s car, I start it from scratch to enter this contest.

Nice way to see if I really improved my skills during the 12 last months.

Marcos render 2019 Marcos render 2020

The renders above show the current state of the car. Below are two colors tests.

Marcos render 2017 Marcos render 2018

I posted about it at SMC, here’s the thread. Page 4 contains more colour tests. I’m really glad to have this thread rated 5 stars, as it’s the first time someone judges than my work is worth a rating.

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Marcos render 010

I like the way the paint catches the light. Still may be improved but a nice step took from my previous attempts.

]]> http://www.thomasbaron.net/2007/05/marcos-gt-1800-new-render/feed/ 0 New project : 1964 Marcos 1800 GT http://www.thomasbaron.net/2007/02/new-project-1964-marcos-1800-gt/ http://www.thomasbaron.net/2007/02/new-project-1964-marcos-1800-gt/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:53:10 +0000 Tom http://www.thomasbaron.net/?p=255 This is my latest work. I discovered the car thanks to an article in a french magazine (Sport Auto, issue of march 2006) Here are the latest pics I produced on it :

Marcos render 007 Marcos render 005

Marcos render 006 Marcos render 004

I’m modeling from the blueprint available on the net : I found this one on www.smcars.net :

Marcos blueprint

I posted about it on www.smcars.net and www.cg-cars.net. I’m currently spending some time adding details and playing with materials.

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