FXWARS! Flying Car, Daniel Amedoda, Freeform, Gia

#8

Hey thanks for the reply rick, just finishing off my model this weekend and then I am going to put some of the advice you guys have given into practice.

#9

Yes I know for now it looks like an ordinary car… but I hope when it has finished the wheels will turn horizontal and have a glow emitting from them.

#10

Hasnt taken off yet but it’s getting there made a few changes to the car, shrunk the wheels, and lowered the body, experimented with a new shader aswell.

http://vimeo.com/2037454

#11

Please forgive the shoddiness of the image, I still have a long way to go but this is the first time I have ever gotten this far, a bit excited :D.

#12

http://www.vimeo.com/2055693

Depending on how much time I have I plan to add a booster and some wings, I am aware that the wheel is wonky :slight_smile: and I am working on that now.

#13

New Dateline! Nov 17th! Good Luck!
-R

#14

Here is the first frame of the animation, for now I have come to an agreement with myself, that this is close to what the final composition should look like. Although there are a few things that I need to tweak.

  1. The head lamp should be a bit more detailed.

  2. That odd dent underneath the grill.

  3. Add more detail and lights to this light.

  4. Make the rims reflect the environment a bit more.

As for animation the car will eventually transform from the traditional road type into a flying car, with hovering apparatus.

#15

Comments and Crit is always welcome.

#16

Nice stuff man keep going, I love to see a final render though.

Cheers.

#17

hey thanks that means so much coming from a top quality artist as yourself. It is encouraging considering this is the furthest I have gotten in any project, I am a lazy noob haha. Even if I don’t get this done in time I am now determined to completet it, thank you :slight_smile:

#18

I’m a Lazy Noob aswell
Thanks for that but I’m jus’t a normal 3D Artist trying to learn a bit more everyday…:surprised
I would love like to see this project completed. :drool:

Good luck man.:beer:

#19

Thanks John

Here is another transformation test. At the moment I am still debating wether or not to keep the wing transformation in there. I will have some cards doing some movement to distract the eye aswell :smiley:

http://www.vimeo.com/2176474

#20

Very nice! But tried to put the transformation in the camera and after let the car back to have time to get flying.:beer:

#21

Hey thanks adib :slight_smile: I am still working on the taking off animation now but, I have a few more problems to sort out.

The second phase of the cars transformation involves the wheels being transformed into hover spheres, I am still in two minds about having the spheres glow or not. I am aware that they would also need to light the ground and the specular highlights would need to have a similar color to the sphere lights.

I have made a few mistakes today, one of them was accidently deleting the texture for the road barrier whilst cleaning up the scene, I had already saved the file before I realized what I had done DOH!!

The scene looks jagged because I am testing out my renders at a low resolution first of all and then if my PC can handle it I will increase the resolution. However, my p.c. has been killing me it took me just over 4 minutes to render one ambient occlusion pass, that wasn’t helped by the fact that I suffered a power cut as well :frowning: .

#22

Worked a bit more on the take off animation.

http://vimeo.com/2187464

#23

really shaping up on the last few posts, dig the new transformation shot!

#24

RayRay, thanks alot man, my pc is suffering at my hands due to an intense rendering session, ambient occlusion pass. I dont know why it is taking so long, I had to reduce the quality and the amounts of samples of the ambient occlusion shader. Thanks for the encouragement :smiley:

#25

Ok I have rendered out most of the animated passes. The final look of the two phases can be seen in the images below. There are still a few tweaks that need to be done, like add heat haze and light streaks, I also need to add camera shake and a slow down animation to show both phases of the cars transformation.

			[[img]http://acmfx.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/final_phase2-copy.jpg?w=128&h=96[/img]](http://acmfx.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/what-maya-did-whilst-i-was-sleeping/final_phase2-copy/) 			 				[[img]http://acmfx.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/phases-copy.jpg?w=128&h=63[/img]](http://acmfx.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/what-maya-did-whilst-i-was-sleeping/phases-copy/) 				[[img]http://acmfx.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/final_phase1-copy.jpg?w=128&h=96[/img]](http://acmfx.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/what-maya-did-whilst-i-was-sleeping/final_phase1-copy/) 			 
		[b]Test animation.[/b]

http://vimeo.com/2222417

#26

This is looking very good man, congrats. keep it up.:buttrock:

#27

Hey thanks man I am now rendering… I have been rendering the final comp for the past four hours, and I am beginning to think that I have done something wrong. But I have finished either way.