Vehicle - joie: Lexus Minority Report

[joie]

Well, this weekend it was so boring that I sitted on my computer and start to continue my work at home..., I had some troubles with wheels proportions but they are right now I think...

Check it out!

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Lexus2.jpg

mmm, It is now getting into shape don´t you think so?

Cheers!

:)

[wok]

looking good so far! I too love this car! would love to drive one!!!!
Can't wait to see the finished product. Goodluck

[joie]

Thank´s, I wnat to finish it as soon as I can, although I don´t have as much time as Would want..., but I´ll try, promise.

:)

[raine]

Nice model.. i like :)

[Stimpy]

very nice model, looking very good so far. do you have some reference pics somewhere for us to compare to ???

i think it will be quite a blast to texture and light that thing. should come out quite elegant.

[evildeli]

i'd love to see a rendered version. So far the model looks solid.

[fig]

dangit, you beat me to it, i was thinking about doing one of these too :D

looking good so far, you've definitely got the feel of the vehicle from the film going. what techniques did you use to model it?

chris

[joie]

Thank you all for your crits.
well, while I´m modeling I don´t make any render so you´ll not see anything rendered untill it´s finished, the only renders I make are in order to see how reflections work on the surface, in terms of surface continuity and so on, no "final" renders although.
The technique for this car is quite different from other I made before because of its design that it´s so "geometric".
I started to model a "reference" car in NURBS to check proportions and things like that (I had almost no reference to check it but with NURBS you can make changes quickly), then I convert them to polys and star to cut them with the "cut tool" to make sure all the lines where correct in terms of geometry while maintaining continuity, then I started the last part wich I call "move verts here and there" and making the holes for lights and things like that.

There´s no more techniques for this, although it´s very dificult to model this car I want to finish it to make some animations and renders.

Check back for updates!

:)

[joie]

Little update:

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Lexus3.jpg

Well, this is only the rear part, but I´ve made some other improvements..., nothing special.
It has been very time-consuming because I spent lots of time tweaking continuity and bumps in order to make reflections work as I want, not as "they" want, you know...

:)

Check for updates!

[slice56]

looking good so far. render it out and post it. I wanna see

[JasonA]

Thats a sweet looking start. Defintely nice work, look forward to your next update
:beer:

[SoLi]

CLICKY (http://www.lexus-europe.com/l/l01_03_02.html)

dunno if u've already seen em but on that link are some decent resolution images of that lexus.

nice work.

[joie]

Well, here it is!, few updates this time, only the new mirrors, little tweaking and started to front shield (is this name correct?):

www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Lexus4.jpg

Hope you like it guys!

C+C welcome

And..., sorry for my english

[Bliz]

Great work so far but I think looking at the last screengrab and your reference that you have the front a bit too wide on your version. The gap between the headlights and the bonnet depresion seems to be the culprit.

I'd also double check the width of the wheels arches at the front. It looks like you may have made them thinner than the real thing to compensate for the extra width in your car.

But good going so far, I know it's exceedingly difficult to work from non-orthagonal reference. Especially from photo's that are bound to have some unknown lens distortion.

[joie]

Oh!, you are right, the depression is widder and I made the corner more angulous than in the reference, thank´s a lot for that, and you are right about the references, it´s veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery hard to work with them, everyone have different lens distorsion and I became sick at start! :D

[joie]

Well, very little update today, I´ve been sick for 3 days now..., so I only have been able to do this, anyway, I think I´ve correct proportions problems and little detailes added:

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Lexus_5.jpg

Thank´s for your C & C

[gfx]

I think your wheels need to be deeper.
The spokes are much more into the wheel in the pictures compared to your model.
The wheel model needs a deeper "dish"
otherwise, everything looks very accurate :thumbsup:

[joie]

What are the "spokes" are you talking about?, sorry, but my english is very..., limited :)

[joie]

What do you think about these updates?, don´t be shy, crit with no remorse! :D

There ar little diferences between this 2 images, the last one is the second, I had some proportion problems...

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus6.jpg

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus7.jpg

[hypercube]

Ooh, missed this thread before, cool to see more versions, seems a natural since the real thing looks CG :) I love this car, it's like they finally built the 'coupe' version of a lightcycle after all these years.

Can see a few things in the latest grabs that seem off..the windshield/roofline seems to dent in too much inbetween the mirrors and the headlights, most likely need to lower the roof there but also make sure that curve is smooth and tight. The nose/front could be just a touch more rounded and blended together, though it's a bit distracting having the missing polys on the bumper, hard to tell :)

There also seems to be more of a roundness to the sides, in the last grab your sides look very flat, although you're getting the cutting in effect, you can see in the ref pics from the highlight that runs between the rear view mirror and the rear wheel more of the curve of the sides. It seems also that there's some additional details under the grey section in front of the rear wheels that aren't in yet.

Ok, well, trying for merciless, but didn't mean to write a novel :D Really it seems down to proportion tweaks, it's that last 10% that is always the most time consuming. I've had to model a lot of stuff from too few/crappy reference pics, so I feel your pain, you've done a great job so far.

[joie]

Well, you are right at all, I´ve changed many things this time and I near to let the outter part of the car finished, I will star to model the inner part soon, stay tunned:

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus8.jpg

[joie]

Ok, I´ve started the inner part, and the most dificult to model since I have only two reference pics and one of them id totally CG so are many diferences between them..., guess I´ll have to invent some parts that are missing in both pics and others that are different from one to another...

Hope you like it!

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus9.jpg

[HenningBirkeland]

Hi, nice model. I did a Lexus also a time ago, but I did never finnish it. Here is the result

Lexus (http://home.no.net/henbirk/bilder/lexus.jpg)

[PureFire]

I cannot even begin to imagine how hard it would be to attempt modelling a car of this magnatude...kickass...

My only crit is you seem to have lost the slight curvature of the front windscreen and the tyre profile needs to be lower.

Henning Birkela's model also looks stunning :D


One day I hope to be able to model as good

[joie]

Yes, The slight curvature is there for sure, but it´s so "slight" that nobody can almost see it..., but it´s there, sure.

I hope to model the interior part to show my progress as soon as I can, but it´s so difficult to model without good references...

[joie]

Yes, The slight curvature is there for sure, but it´s so "slight" that nobody can almost see it..., but it´s there, sure.

I hope to model the interior part to show my progress as soon as I can, but it´s so difficult to model without good references...

[joie]

Hi, here in Spain it´s so much hot, like 44º C or so..., too much hot to sit in front of the computer to model..., but I do!
Well, these are my little updates (little, sure):
http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus10.jpg

and

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus11.jpg

[joie]

Hi, time to go back to school! :)
Here what I have for this moment, is it time now for shader work?

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus12.jpg

[infi]

hey, someones finally doing it :D grats
I never finished my low poly lexus (look at avatar) stopped somewhere on the interior

though mine was really low poly and yours gives every detail, great

here's a pic of it if you're interested :shrug: http://www.chaosworx.net/gta3/cars/lexus7.jpg

[joie]

Hi Infi!
You definetelly got the mood, why did you stopped?

[infi]

when I was modeling I had no time anymore :hmm:, and since then I never felt like finishing it, but I'm glad you like it

[graffb]

Very PRECISE!!!

[Pttr]

Cool to see the model evolving. Looks amazing in the last pics, you can really take criticism to you and make your work better! Render that baby, render it! :applause:

[graffb]

Very PRECISE!!!

[joie]

Well, I´ve made the rear part of the inside part of the car, i´m happy with it and just thinking to leave it and become texturing, what do you think?

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus13.jpg

Well, and here is the real one, don´t compare them since I have three pictures and they are very different eachother and I´ve made my "own" version:

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/interior1.jpg

[wgreenlee1]

Wow!

[graffb]

Nice nice nice!!!

[urgaffel]

You should definitely finish this, it's looking great! I think you can move on to texturing now :)

[joie]

Well, thank´s for your comments.
This is how the entire car looks for now, I think it´s finished when I make the inner part of the lights (front and rear ones), so I´m starting the texturing now:

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus14.jpg

Cheers!

:)

[infi]

there's still a little flaw in the seats, the headrest is bend over from the base of the chair it's not a seperate piece, you can see that in the original picture (I used the same one as reference for mine) and I made that bent headrest, other than that :applause:

edit: oh and it looks like there's a hole under the window behind the door

[joie]

mmm, I made the seats out of two pieces, one piece to seat and one piece in order to place your back and rest your head, it isn´t a separate piece, if you could paint over and show me were´s the problem it would very nice.
And yes, there is a hole behind the window, but, you know, this is the "unsmoothed" version, so it is plenty of holes and creases that are disapearing in the smoothed version.

But thank´s for the comments you have a very good eye on details.

:)

[infi]

I attached an image of what I mean, left one is the original (at least how I see it) and right one is like you did it

[joie]

Oh, I see what you mean.
The point is that I bought the scale model and it isn´t like that, in the image they are like you pointed to, this is true. But I have three pictures and they are diferent in averyone and, because I don´t like the way they appear in the real one, I decided to remodelled them as I´d like them to be...
I´ll make the other version and will make a popular voting hu?

:)

[joie]

Hello guys, this is a test render of the car in order to test reflections and the way the shaders work on surfaces, there is much light but it´s only a test, you know...

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus15.jpg

[urgaffel]

Sweet! Although it seems that you can see through the model near the rear wheels. Looks like there's nothing in there.

[joie]

Oh, yes, there is nothing there, this is only a test render, the car isn´t finished and I have to make the inner part of the lights and things like that.

[joie]

Hi!, this is the car status, I hope to finish it as soon as possible, but the spanish timetable is horrible, you have no time to do what you want at home!

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus16.jpg

[infi]

nice & clean

[mladenr]

great work!

i think he would look really good with white background... maybe a wallpaper?

and... i am not familiar with this car, but tyres seem too bumpy to me. the wheels look dark too... metalic would be better.

fantastic car...

[joie]

Well guys, this is what I got for now, the car is unfinished yet but it will soon so stay tunned!

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus17.jpg

[EighthDecay]

looks pretty cool, renders could be better, little to dark, could show off your interior work a little more, excellent model!

[joie]

This seems odd but, in my computer it shows lighter, not so dark..., damn!, I hate color profiles!

:(

[joie]

Well, I did some enlighten work and now it looks more bright, I attach a new rear view image, hope you like it!

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus18.jpg

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/Lexus19.jpg

[ik-vlieg]

You might wanna take a look
here!! (http://www.threedy.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8693&highlight=lexus)... This guy also modelled the Lexus CS 2054 from Minority Report

Nice work btw!! very good, i only think you should make the the car more shiny... looks a little fuzzy (if that is the right word) now...

[joie]

What do you mean with "fuzzy"?

I wanted some dust in the car, you know, it is outdoors, so a little of dust is OK, and thank´s for that post that car looks good.

[joie]

OK guys.

So here is the model finished, I made this photo of the real car crossing my street, so a took the camera and... voilá, here it is.

Hope you like it, I will make an animation but that will be in the near future i think.

Tell me your thoughts.

Thank´s

http://www.inicia.es/de/jom.peich.de.joie/Sesiones/LexusCorre.jpg

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