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Title: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on June 27, 2007, 04:25:43 PM
Starting to make a CG car as I wanted to do something non scifi. Now can you guess what it is at the moment?
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: DJ Curtis on June 27, 2007, 05:12:28 PM
Italdesign Cala
Mitsubishi Eclipse
Porshe 911
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: cpthooker on June 27, 2007, 05:14:47 PM
no lol
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: DJ Curtis on June 27, 2007, 05:18:51 PM
some kinda tuner car by the looks of it.

honda civic?
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: MickJo on June 27, 2007, 05:19:21 PM
DB9?
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: DJ Curtis on June 27, 2007, 05:22:09 PM
ooh, aston martin.  that's a good guess.
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: cpthooker on June 27, 2007, 05:24:20 PM
DB9?
Give that man a Walther PPK, correct answer
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: MickJo on June 27, 2007, 05:42:36 PM
GREATEST CAR EVER
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: Glempius on June 27, 2007, 06:17:35 PM
I was thinking it was the DB9, but the gap for the head lamp in that wasjig looked a little too recessed, but then again the lamp isn't in the gap

Oh well
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: Legacy on June 27, 2007, 06:53:12 PM
Yup, i just came home to check my hot wheels collection.. lol.

Cool car indeed, it was marked in my list ;)
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: cpthooker on June 28, 2007, 04:49:04 PM
update, I am taking it slow as I am not used to do CGI
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: Nighthawk on June 28, 2007, 05:07:45 PM
perfect for a secret agent.
I say you use (when it's done) glossy night-blue paint.

*two thumbs up for a nice starting*
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: cpthooker on June 28, 2007, 05:19:02 PM
its a pain as the reference shots are limited and the one I have doesn't line up so I am having to judge by photos alot more
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: Legacy on June 29, 2007, 04:10:32 PM
its a pain as the reference shots are limited and the one I have doesn't line up so I am having to judge by photos alot more

Hey, you have a front one!
I only have a good side one and a top one that is from another year.. hehe.

Looks cool, mate.
Title: Re: Guess the Car
Post by: cpthooker on July 04, 2007, 08:05:53 AM
more work done
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Mustang on July 08, 2007, 03:01:29 PM
Awesome. Just plain awesome. I love Aston Martin, especially the DB9. Can't wait to see more updates!
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Adonis on July 08, 2007, 03:46:54 PM
Looking good mate :)
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: M@DM@X on July 08, 2007, 05:27:01 PM
hard isnt it hooker. good work, take it nice and slow and make sure you dont get no tri's in your mesh  8)
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Bones on July 09, 2007, 02:23:33 PM
Awesome. Just plain awesome. I love Aston Martin, especially the DB9. Can't wait to see more updates!
totally agreed  :)
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on July 09, 2007, 03:58:18 PM
Keeping myself busy as we think my brother's gf has gone into the early stages of labour and has gone to hospital. Anyway here is an update
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: M@DM@X on July 09, 2007, 04:01:39 PM
congrats bro, again nice work. i would love to see a wireframe on this. ive done alittle car modeling myself so i might be able to help alittle if you get stuck anywhere.
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Legacy on July 10, 2007, 11:00:13 AM
Shaping out pretty nice, mate.
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on July 11, 2007, 01:52:51 AM
here is the wireframe
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Bones on July 11, 2007, 04:52:45 AM
Nice, wonder if this will be for 3d art or for some racing game like NFS ?
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Mark on July 11, 2007, 05:05:33 AM
nice work
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on July 11, 2007, 07:42:57 AM
Nice, wonder if this will be for 3d art or for some racing game like NFS ?
it will 3d art, don't play any racing games on the pc, just the xbox360
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Legacy on July 11, 2007, 09:43:44 AM
nice wiring, i take it you're box modelling it, if so, perhaps you should try some subdivision modifier (when i need one, i prefer turbosmooth) and see how it looks.
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on July 11, 2007, 11:07:29 AM
I didn't do it by box modelling i did it by splines
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Legacy on July 11, 2007, 11:08:40 AM
I didn't do it by box modelling i did it by splines

Better than, increase the interpolation and get rid of the sharp edges, to some slightly smoothed beziers.
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on July 11, 2007, 11:10:31 AM
Yeah I am doing it, just taking my time ;)
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Nighthawk on July 11, 2007, 11:17:17 AM
watch the curvature on the sides, the lights and the bumper
it will be better if you had both the schematics and a photo or a scale model, so you can see where it's smooth and where the edge is marked

so, once you finish, you can render (or photograph?) something like this
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Legacy on July 11, 2007, 03:21:03 PM
Or this.  8)
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on July 15, 2007, 08:08:47 AM
update, sorted the smoothing out alot today
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: M@DM@X on July 15, 2007, 12:02:42 PM
nice work there cpthooker. i see in the wireframe you have some 3 sided polys, you really need to make them 4 sided or the reflections when you add a paint material will look strange in them area's. it shouldnt be too much work to fix. great work with the splines tho, i always boxmodel; takes longer but if done correct has the same effect as splines.
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on July 15, 2007, 12:05:06 PM
yeah I am fixing them
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: M@DM@X on July 15, 2007, 12:17:16 PM
glad to hear. just out of interest what rendering engine you going to use? vray? brazil? or mental ray? if its mental ray i might be able to point you in the direction of a good tutorial for render/scene/material setup so you can get a render kinda like these.
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on July 15, 2007, 12:53:33 PM
i have vray, but not thinking about that till the model is done thanks
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: Legacy on July 16, 2007, 07:51:14 AM
i have vray, but not thinking about that till the model is done thanks

Vray rocks.  :arms:
Title: Re: Aston Martin DB9
Post by: cpthooker on July 16, 2007, 08:10:41 AM
I didn't say that it didn't. Just getting the model sorted before thinking about VRAY