911 (977) GT3 RS - First Car, first model beyond doodling

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Hi there, I’d like to present my first car, and my first real model beyond doodling in Blender. A lot of credit goes to Jonathan Williamson for a fantastic tutorial on the Porsche. I followed for a while, and while using my own sourced blueprints and references I digressed to do what I could on my own to a fair extent so hopefully my work isn’t a carbon copy of anything. I bitmap-traced decals into vectors where necessary and modded them to reflect the real ones where need be before exporting back into png’s with alpha. I have over 60 references I sourced to try and get a better view of different details.

It’s something of a personal achievement which I intended to look pleasing to the eye. I’m not uploading directly because the resolution requirements here are far too low - details like the radiator get turned into speckles which isn’t so nice.

Without further ado I present the awesome Porsche 911 GT3 RS:

http://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Porsche/i-zNwh827/0/X3/porsche-front-persp-S.png

http://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Porsche/i-8QCpd4c/0/X3/porsche-back-persp-M.png

http://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Porsche/i-X2qw4Q7/0/X3/porsche-side-S.png

http://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Porsche/i-CrtmLqJ/0/X3/porsche-front-S.png

http://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Porsche/i-gHcQFr7/0/X3/porsche-back-S.png

http://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Porsche/i-f9zq8Pb/0/X3/porsche-front-close-S.png

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nice! Only thing I would change would be the color of the car… It seems a bit odd like that for some reason. :-/

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the color looks fine, and the whole car looks nice :slight_smile: I’d just change the taillights around a bit, it seems a bit fakeish.
edit: sorry, probably should’ve said that in your WIP

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Thanks for the comments. The colour is really subjective, since I’m using brightish lighting the colour does lighten right up to a yellowy orange like reference pics show. I tried darkening it but it tries to go to more of a strawberry/orange which just isn’t right.

The tail lights don’t match the originals exactly but they are representative I think. Here are a couple more views of the back of the car, the first with the brake lights off, the second with brake & reverse lights on in the dark:

http://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Porsche/i-WwNFMHk/0/X3/porsche-back-nolights-S.png

http://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Porsche/i-LDw8Pdk/0/X3/porsche-back-dark-S.png