Howdy,
I’ve been wanting to model my old malibu for a while as well as try a vfx challenge so i’m going to do both here. Started modeling yesterday and got my guide curves pretty much ready to go, going to start fleshing it out today. Will use a plate from Mr. Ortiz’s collection (thanks for those!) and my model, animation, particles, etc. Hopefully it will rock, looking forward to seeing everyone’s entries!
Ray
Got the body blocked out, going to add trim and figure out what my flying car mods are going to be tomorrow.
Hey,
Fell behind over the weekend but getting back on it now. Here’s a model update, will get the mods on it for flying now.
flying_malibu_03
(Hasn’t been smoothed yet)
Of all the entries yours is one of my fav.
My friend in high school drove a Malibu just like this one. He had swapped out the engine, and replaced it with a 450hp stock V8. He use to race 5.0L mustangs with it, and win each time. He would smoke Camaros as well.
It was such a sleeper car. Painted stock green, stock tires, and stock exhaust. The only hint of any performance was an extra gauge he attached to the dashboard. When he would hit the gas it would pin you to the back of the bench seats in the back, and just hold you there until it hit 120mph. I loved it, but it was kind of crazy and stupid.
I almost got killed in that car actually. We use to hang around the parking lot at a donut shop here in Toronto. Around midnight racers would collect, and then head out to a highway by pass. Where they would do illegal street races.
While riding in the back seat with some other friends, an Italian driver (can’t remember his name) was driving beside us in a Pink Mustang 5.0. Yea it was Pink, and very modified. We didn’t start racing right away, but sort of egged each other on and the next thing I know we were just flying threw intersections. The mustang was clearly supercharged or something.
We were heading for a street light, and an other car started to make a left turn across our path. At those speeds no one can see you coming. The Mustang was a head of us and swerved into on coming traffic and lost control. The stang started spinning wildly out of control with smoke filling the streets. My god I had never seen so much smoke. We slammed on the brakes burning the tires almost off the rims. It all happened so fast.
Amazingly the Mustang recovered from the spin, and kept on driving.
We missed the car turning left by a few inches. Thank God for that. I couldn’t believe what had happen, and I was just riding as a passenger in the back seats.
The Mustang pulled up along side us, and the driver’s face was pure white from shock.
Anyway, your Malibu just reminds me of those younger years where youth do stupid things.
Hi,
Thanks for the input! Here’s my rigging test I put together. Just dumped some MR preset materials on it and did a quick animation to test the rig I put together. The cylinders in the trunk will have some cool jets in it and the other textures will change too. Was thinking about some particles but not sure if I’ll have time, going to get it comped into a plate this week I hope!
flying malibu
Ray
Howdy,
I went out and shot a few plates with an HD cam cause I was having some troubles getting the take-off angle I wanted. This shot has a pretty serious pan that I had some trouble tracking so I wanted to get some tips. It tracked ok until the end of this movie, but the pan continues (not posted here). My coordinate system freaks out though when my points go off screen, just wanted to post this and see if anyone could guide me so I could finish out the track. Lighting and texturing still need mucho work but at least I’ll have something for the deadline, even if it’s not exactly what i had planned. Do i need to blend two camera tracks together to get the whole pan? or should I just track stuff after the pan has happened at the end of the shot and somehow keep my coordinates aligned that way.
Thanks!
Hey excellent work man, i like the idea of a classic car. I am looking forward to seeing the finish project, there are so many good entries this time round.
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