Marcos 1800GT : final renders
Posted by Tom in Marcos 1800GT on June 9th, 2008
The 60’s contest is now over at SMC. The voting process to choose the winner is started. 6 projects (including mine) have been submitted, with an impressive average level. The vote will be really tough.
Here’re my final renders :
I also posted these pictures, as they show pretty well some features of the car :
Rendez-vous in one week for the results !
1964 Marcos 1800 GT
Posted by Tom in Marcos 1800GT on May 13th, 2008
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.
1995 Renault Sport Spider
Posted by Tom in Renault Sport Spider on May 13th, 2008
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 !
A SuperSeven against zombies : final renders
Posted by Tom in SuperSeven against zombies on May 12th, 2008
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.
A Super Seven against the zombies : new renders
Posted by Tom in SuperSeven against zombies on March 27th, 2008
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.
New project : a SuperSeven against zombies
Posted by Tom in SuperSeven against zombies on January 13th, 2008
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.
Tutorial : Modeling with Blender for precision work
Here’re some interesting advices and ressources to work with Blender as a precision tool.
That is, when you want to model anything with precision or accuracy to an existing object. Why bother with this ? Because I’ve learned to value the acuraccy of a car model as well as the simple beauty of a render. It’s a matter of taste, and I just think it’s more grateful to achieve an accurate model than to rush to produce something-looking-a-bit-like-but-not-really-the-same.
By the way, happy new year !
If you don’t want to read much
For precision modeling, the shortest advice is : define yourself the scale you’ll be using for your model. By writing this, I mean that there is no feature in Blender such as “define which size is a meter or a foot or a parsec or whatever length unit you can think of”. There is only Blender units.
Ariel Atom II : looking for a render style
Posted by Tom in Ariel Atom II on October 10th, 2007
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 :
2004 Ariel Atom II
Posted by Tom in Ariel Atom II on August 14th, 2007
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.
New site : migration and data loss
With the new blog engine online, I’ll allow anyone to see stats for the site. As you can see by your self on the stats page, there’s a big hole in visits for April and May.
Because of inattention, I lost statistics for the site for almost whole April. Unfortunately, it was a really good month (more than 8000 page views for about 4500 unique visitors). That is, my best month so far.
The hole for May has several origins : my wife gave me a second little marvel (welcome to the world, Gaspard !), we all moved to a new house and I started a brand new job. So the server was down for some weeks.
I hope I will regain soon a constant growth as I was used to for more than a year. Thanks you, every visitor, for viewing my work and tutorials. Keep coming here, there is some new tutorials to come, just like my latest one : realistic light setting in Blender !