still: Toyota Celica

[Dangeruss]

It's a shame there's no more comments as your work is quite good. This is a tough subject with its compound curves. There a re a few harsh edges remaining and the paint surface isn't what most people expect from a finished work. All of that can be tweaked into perfection though. for your first hi-poly effort, it's a job you should be quite proud of. Congratulations.

Some areas you might choose to work on would be:

More realistic headlight mapping or modeling. The zig-zag patterned doesn't really look convincing.

Improving the paint finish try using a different color to pull it out of the background. If you want a silver paint finish, try using a falloff map in the diffuse slot and using a light grey and a near black.

Your glass seems to disappear without any reflection or specular.

Though they can be tricky to get right, using HDRI illumination and reflection maps can really work wonders for glossy surfaces. 3D world magazine had a nice articale about using HDRI maps . lights within 3DS Max.

Good luck with this, and future projects.

[wayfaerer]

great work, especially for the first steps with sub division surfaces! Perhaps you could take another look at the spots around the headlights.

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