Lotus Elise S2 (update: 100K+ Vertex Rims! wooo!)

Artwork Works in Progress
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UPDATE: December 15.2003

first and foremost, i remodeled my rims and ties (well more like: modified the rims, and modeled the tire threading–before it was a uv map)

http://hotlink.reblended.com/upgrdman/Screenshot.png
(http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/Screenshot.png)

and i sorta finished my crappy stereo textures, which i will later redo much better:

http://hotlink.reblended.com/upgrdman/presentation/stereo_render.jpg
(http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/presentation/stereo_render.jpg)

comments and crits welcome :slight_smile:

–farrell “upgrdman” farahbod

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UPDATE: December 08, 2003

I got my stereo almost completely done. all that left is a little tweaking of the textures, and of couse to finish making textures for the untextured stuff. here’s a test render:

http://hotlink.reblended.com/upgrdman/stereo_test_render.jpg
(http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/stereo_test_render.jpg)

comments and crits please :slight_smile: i am awake of some of the overlap on the textures (one texture spilling onto another object…)

–farrell “upgrdman” farahbod

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UPDATE: November 15, 2003

i rendered a test of my speakers:

http://hotlink.reblended.com/upgrdman/Screenshot-17.png
(http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/Screenshot-17.png)

heres the anim:

http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/speaker_test.avi

comments and crits please :slight_smile: and i know, i will work on the moire pattern problems if possible.

–farrell “upgrdman” farahbod

UPDATE: November 11, 2003

i got the stereo mostly done. there are some mesh problems which will be fixed soon, but other than that, the model is pretty much done. textures are all thats letf mostly.

http://hotlink.reblended.com/upgrdman/Screenshot-15.png
(http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/Screenshot-15.png)

i will work on the textures tomorrow and the day after, then i will work on the speakers.

comments welcome :slight_smile:

–farrell “upgrdman” farahbod

UPDATE: November 05, 2003

I started work on the stereo. When the stereo is finsiehd, i will model some bad ass speakers/subwoofer! after about an hour of work…mostly playing with the mesh to get good sharp edges, and no tears etc…

i bring you a preview screenshot of what i have done thus far:

(http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/Screenshot-10.png)

heres a reference photo i used…taken in my '86 Accord :slight_smile:

(http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/stereo.jpg)

so far it’s not much, but hopefully i will have more time to model tomorrow :slight_smile:

comments & crits please

–farrell “upgrdman” farahbod

UPDATE: October 23, 2003

Ok i now have some more of the interior done:
(http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/Screenshot-7.png)

also of note: i have edited out a lot of the older updates from this post as they add a quite a bit to the load time of this page, and not to mention, needlessly increase my hosters bandwidth usage. so, if anyone wants too see the previous updates, i acrhcived this page before i edited most of it out, and it is available at:

http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/thread_archive/

–farrell “upgrdman” farahbod

Some old stuff:

http://hotlink.reblended.com/upgrdman/elise-s2-stills/2elise-angled.jpg

To see some more stills (six in all) go to:
http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/elise-s2-stills/

and heres a quick flyaround animation:
http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/flyaround.avi
(~1.9MB DivX AVI)

Comments & crit’s are very welcome…infact they’re even requested!! hint, hint :wink:

–upgrdman

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Flibble floogle doola! Smerity’s insane voice while right side of mouth is paralysed

Roughly translated: That’s one really sweet car! If I had a choice of which car I’d be getting when I get my licence that’d be it! Right now it looks cartoony (which in itself is pretty kewl lol) but as u said ur in the texturing stage!

Everytime I watch the flyaround I notice a tiny detail I didn’t see b4, and the lighting, WOO! The lights make is soooooooo shiny! Smerity just keeps watching it spin around

Either way, this car is really really really awesome! I can’t wait to see it finished! (maybe a wireframe snap plz? :wink: )

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OMG! I forgot ot post a wireframe shot!! Sorry…here’s a shot. It’s a bitch to make a decent wireframe shot with this car of mine, as it has so many objects, and it’s full of verticies. Hell…I think yable reported 497,649 polys in one of its exports of this car. However the actually model is quite low poly, i use subsurfs a lot. and to get thinkgs looking right you need a lot of objects…e.g tire wells, and other stuff to keep people from seeing threw the car when looking in the vents etc…

SO…this screenshot isn’t exaclty the best possible wireframe shot… makes me really want the ability to see just the wireframe for the parts of objects facing the camera/current view–like I see in screenshots of maya and max. (I think its those apps I saw…)

SO…without furthur ado:

http://mysite.reblended.com/upgrdman/elise-s2-stills/wireframe.jpg
( http://mysite.reblended.com/upgrdman/elise-s2-stills/wireframe.jpg )

Sorry…I tend to write on and on…using lots of commas, and three-periods-in-a-row…etc… ^_-

–upgrdman

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you should have gave us this Url too :

http://reblended.com/www/upgrdman/elise-s2-stills/

nice job … i like it

:stuck_out_tongue:

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Very good work.
For the animation, more reflection would be great.

Bravo

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Cool, but it lacks reflections on glass items :wink:

Stefano

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update:

MODEL FOR SALE

– Farrell Farahbod

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Why do you think people will buy it? It’s a lot more fun to have your own moddeled car… Have luck.

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Yeah, why would anyone want to buy it? %|

It’s cool looking but not worth money.

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nice car, but selling it doesn’t sound like a good idea… :-?

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It’s certainly a nice model but it’s not even close to photoreal…

And if you want to sell it, try turbosquid, you have exactly zero chance here :smiley:

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Sweet car! But I think I’ll just model my own if i need one…

dante

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I think you’re going to have to toss it into the clearance bin. Its nice but…pay for it? No thankyou.

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I bid a buck fitty. Not a penny more.

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if you want to sell it, put it on turbosquid.com

very nice though :slight_smile:

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you guys are right…i don’t know what i was thinking…

i better finish up the interior, make the exterior better, and re-material/texture it.

after that i’ll put it on turbosquid.com

im sorry for wasting your guys’ time…

-farrell farahbod

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chill. it’s ok… 8)

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update: oct12, 2003

interior started

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UPDATE: oct13, 2003

chair, url at top of post

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UPDATE: oct16, 2003