FXWars! Flying Car, Woadiestyol, Freeform

#1

I’m in! My concept is a flying 2-wheel car-motorcycle-hybrid-thing. I would like to ultimately composite this into some live-action plates, but I’ve just been picked up for some modeling work on my first real production for a music video (in addition to school work)…so we’ll see how far I get.

I’ve started working on some concepts for the design of the motorcycle and an animation concept. I thought a transformer-type thing could be cool where the wheels kind of break apart and fold into the body, the exhaust drops into “thruster position”, and maybe some other stuff I haven’t thought of yet happens :slight_smile:

My main concern is keeping this somewhat simple so that I actually have time to see it through. I might not have much more than a couple hours a week to work on it, so that’s not much time :frowning: Anyways, here are some of the items I’ve come up with thus far:

Animation Concept - Vimeo link!

More concept stuff coming soon…

#2

I started modeling the body of the bike today and realized I spent hours just screwing around because I kept changing my mind about how it should look. That lead me back to the drawing board, which I think is a good thing. I still have yet to really ever see a big project through to completion, probably because I just keep stalling during design phases of the project. I think it’s important for me personally to develop a solid concept that I’m happy with and then just focus upon the execution; otherwise, I never seem to move forward.

That being said, I’ve been sketching some more ideas for the body of the motorcycle. I think I’ve settle upon this as an overall design, but I still need to work on the details and draw up a final concept to start modeling from. I’ll post up when that’s been completed.

#3

I’ve roughed out the body of the bike a bit more an inserted it into the animation test (uploaded to Vimeo in 720p). This is still purely conceptual - I plan on re-modeling the bike in pieces with more detail once I nail down exactly what I want it to look like.

I’m going to try and come up with some model sheets to start the modeling from soon, and then it’s off to the races :slight_smile:

Link to the animation

#4

Shader test on a model I never finished…this is a car-paint shader I created that I plan to use (with some slight modifications) on the body of the bike:

#5

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

#6

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