FXWARS! Flying Car, Daniel Amedoda, Freeform, Gia

#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.

#28

NAME: Daniel S Amedoda Paramountcell
STILL:

WIP THREAD:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=683326

DESCRIPTION:
Eclipse technologies Gia. This has been a very exciting project for me, for a long time I had so many ideas going through my head, one of them was to design and animate my own car, I had come up with the idea of doing design for a non existent company called eclipse technology. I originally wanted to do a car chase but that would have been a bit to complicated for me, I really am in awe by the entries I have already seen.
My friend Jtype (google it) had provided me with the music, he helped with editing and slowmo. I love the music and I feel in some way the nooby animation and editing, may not do the soundtrack justice, so I intend to continue working on this project after the challenge is over, to increase my skills and get one of my friends to add music. Since my skills and processing power are limited I decided to to keep the animation short, and try and increase the quality of the 7 seconds I already had. Thanks for watching, and all the best to the other challengers
ANIMATION LINK: only lasts for seven days
https://www.yousendit.com/download/...IcVhlaFJFQlE9PQ

MIRROR:
http://vimeo.com/2277272

#29

for a more detailed discussion check out my progress at www.acmfx.wordpress.com