A bike and his pilot girl

nicolas-vergnes · October 3, 2011, 7:58am

Hi all,

this is my first blender wip post.

I have designed a futuristic bike, and I started modeling it with my old Lightwave 7.5
Blender 2.5 have a great user interface so I could start learning blender. I couldnt learn blender 2.49 due to my bad feeling with UI.

The harder part was getting to use a non-Lightwave-selection and I did not totally yet accustomed.

So I switched to blender, I finished the bike modeling and I’m currently modeling the pilot with my blueprint-girlfriend.
My camera lens have distorded the bottom part of the blueprint image, so I have done some adjustment of legs and feet proportions.

I dont want use my time before choosing the render engine. With 2M of polys the blender internal’s occlusion solver wont render my image: I will test the Cycles renderer or luxrender. (Mitsuba have not a shader UI integration so no Mitsuba)

There is the bike modeling

Thanks for your future advices and critical observations

Max_Evil · October 3, 2011, 8:24am

Nice bike, little hard to understand how one would drive it but cool design a lots of nice detail

As for the renderer, YafaRay is integrated to blender UI also and works great

nicolas-vergnes · October 3, 2011, 10:09am

1 - Design the bike

Exhaust system by the frame, then the back wheel rim. Quadruple exhaust outputs.
No handlebar but joysticks
Original driver position
Back flash ligths
Ball bearing for wheels
Front wheel that rotates by horizontal pneumatics. This wheel is attached to the frame with “claws”
On the back: double dampers attached to the frame by ball joint
Entry air system with littles tubes connected on the lower fairing
Bi-cylinders in V + double horizontal cylinders ( :eyebrowlift2: )
The seat supports upper parts of the legs

Some study scribbles