I like Lego a lot, so i decided to do new Lego related project. With all the buzz (including negative stuff) around new movie I decided to give tribute to the original Ghostbusters ECTO-1 Car.
My maine goal was to create a Lego car with realistic look to it and real life size car suspencion.This work took me a week and a half to complete. I used Lego Digital Designer to create model. Then I brought it into Blender. When model comes from LDD to Blender it’s usually broken so I spent a lot of time fixing bricks and giving them very important beveling.
For this work I used some of the things that Heinzelnisse (blendswap user) did for his Bulldozer but I came up with new SSS-based material. I used PBR material with SSS Shader for the Lego peaces. It’s suddle, but I think it’s very important to use SSS when it comes to rendering Lego. Also I rigged the car, as it’s seen in the video (https://vimeo.com/175093811).
Oooo that is so cool! I am glad that more people are using the PBR materials! I am curious why you chose subsurface scattering than translucent. Only curious
material is actually not that complex. I took PBR-material by Andrew Price and instead of using Diffuse shader in it, used SSS Shader. I used pretty low scale value for SSS 0.030. But for some parts it’s even lower, because different parts have different quality of plastic. Also different materials required different Radius (aka scattered color) which i picked by eye (I don’t know if there is better way)
Also each material have scratches map, normal map and displacement map for the Lego logo. This idea I picked up from Blendswap user Heinzelnisse and his bulldozer model
Thank you for the indepth of the materials used! Translucent acts similarly to the SSS but the color is only of that color you make it. I was wondering before because people have used translucent for lego and plastic materials. Though it looked more like rubber than anything.
