After the WZA contest, SMCars.net launched a new official contest, 60′s cars.
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.
Here’s a time-filling project I started, to keep me focused on modeling between two contests at SMCars.net, WZA and 60′s.
This car is not so famous, but really original from the french car make Renault. Lightweight, 2 seats only, 150bhp 4strokes inline, 930kg. It sounds like a good recipe to me !
The WZA contest came to an end, and it gaves us a wonderful winner : see the results at SMC.
Here are the renders I submitted as my official entry. Due to a lack of time, they aren’t as good as I wanted, and even don’t show the whole model with all weapons. But it has been a nice exercise for sure.
The deadline for the “When Zombies Attack” (a.k.a. WZA) contest at SMC is coming. So I get back to work on my SuperSeven entry.
The rendering process was really different for these pictures. Follow the jump to learn more about it and how to use it in your own projects.
I’m back with my last project. And it’s a bit … well … different !
There is a new contest on www.smcars.net. After the lightweight cars contest I proposed (please see http://thomasbaron.net/posts/view/2004_ariel_atom_ii and http://thomasbaron.net/posts/view/ariel_atom_ii_looking_for_a_render_style), someone came with a new idea : design the vehicle you’ll want to drive if the world were infested by zombies. And with the trend with zombies movies the last few years, the contest sounded as a good idea to many peoples. There is about 10 serious entries as of writing.
I’m still working on the Ariel Atom II. The modeling process continues but as a little break, I tried to find out some new interesting setups for rendering. Here’re the 3 setups I got :
I submitted a contest on www.smcars.net about modeling lightweight cars : the “Light is Right” contest, of course name after the famous quote from the very famous Colin Chapman. Nothing more than about 950kg !
The deadline is for end of August. So far, we’re 12 competitors. Of course I’m in the contest, with a 2004 Ariel Atom II.
I keep trying to get some nice studio-style renderings. Last render I’ve got is here :
I like the way the paint catches the light. Still may be improved but a nice step took from my previous attempts.
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 :
I’m modeling from the blueprint available on the net : I found this one on www.smcars.net :
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.
Here’s my latest work on the DB9 modeling. Still same rendering setup as previous post on it.
New parts are :
