agep Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Hi guys Here is a work related model of a VW Beetle 1200 that I have made. The "final" render was just a quick setup which I might improved when I find some time. A few details, like the windshield wiper is still missing. Anyway, let me know what you think Best regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted October 4, 2010 Admin Share Posted October 4, 2010 Anyway, let me know what you think What I think? I think the top two images are photos. Not sure how you did the gray images/lines over the photos in the bottom two images though... Incredible work as always Stian. Impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsjustme Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 I had to look really hard for anything to mention...and it's trivial (it might just be the way it actually is on the car). The back side of the front tire looks like the rim isn't complete...at least that's what I think is going on with it (front view final render image...right side of image, left side of car), it might be accurate considering I don't know what it actually should look like. Incredible work, Stian! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefreshestever Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 amazing as ever!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 HERBIE! #53! I was just wondering the other day what you have been up to. A great choice for a model... think it's been done by another Hasher- but never as clean as yours. DO ME A FAVOR... when you do your final render... turn the front wheels a little bit- love that. You are the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meowx Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Clean, simple, beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSpleen Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 you are the man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Remember Greg Schumski's VW Microbus model? I wonder if it would hold-up to yours... you could do a side-by-side... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 4, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 4, 2010 that looks super! Wonderful work. I enjoy looking at the wireframes, thanks for posting those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Wow I would hve trouble modeling a wheel as well as you've done the car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largento Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Another amazing job, Stian! My first car was a dilapidated '73 Super Beetle. Floorboards were rusting and had big holes in them and the rearview mirror would snap off if you tried to adjust it. No air and only an AM radio. Man, I loved that deathtrap. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new guy Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 OMG! that totally rivals many renders i have seen from maya! dude... you are not human! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 4, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 4, 2010 You mentioned it was work related... it would be fun to see what this is going into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agep Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 Thank you for the nice comments friends You mentioned it was work related... it would be fun to see what this is going into. Sorry, but I cannot elaborate that, only that it is just an illustration for a presentation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtaz Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 amazing ... as is usual in all your work....they are an inspiration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 really, really nice work Stian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted October 4, 2010 Admin Share Posted October 4, 2010 David Simmons said: The back side of the front tire looks like the rim isn't complete Good eye David! We'll have to classify that as the 'A few details, like the windshield wiper is still missing.' Stian mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Reynolds Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 Remember Greg Schumski's VW Microbus model? I wonder if it would hold-up to yours... you could do a side-by-side... Actually, I built that as a favor to Greg. And I'd like to think it can hold it's own against Stian's finely crafted model. In my opinion, the weakest link in the attached render (from April 2000) is the lighting. I may have to try a new one with AO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 5, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 5, 2010 Remember Greg Schumski's VW Microbus model? I wonder if it would hold-up to yours... you could do a side-by-side... Actually, I built that as a favor to Greg. And I'd like to think it can hold it's own against Stian's finely crafted model. In my opinion, the weakest link in the attached render (from April 2000) is the lighting. I may have to try a new one with AO. Another A:M classic! I wonder if there's a VW Thing around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbenefi33 Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 WOW both of them are awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agep Posted October 5, 2010 Author Share Posted October 5, 2010 And I'd like to think it can hold it's own against Stian's finely crafted modelAbsolutely, are are you are one of the best, and probably the best mechanical modeler using A:M. I have always been inspired by your work Marcos Rezende (Xtaz) asked me if I could do an side by side rendering with mine and his VW Beetle model, just for fun: Mine is to the left, his to the right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 OK, now they gotta race! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtaz Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Thanks Stian ... nice render ... the material that you used matched perfectly with the model .... very nice... My' model is notably an older version than the Stian. We can verify this by the headlights and bumper here is one of '60 references that I used More details can be found in the original post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 FASCINATING! Hats off to all of you... Stian, Marcos and Rodger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 6, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 6, 2010 Can you do a render with the VW bus too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Reynolds Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Can you do a render with the VW bus too? Fair warning. This was a model made before AO which is unforgiving of certain uses of hooks and neighbouring normals not all pointing in the same direction; sins which run rampant through the bus. I did a render of the bus with AO and it's pretty smudgey. I'm currently running through the bus's 10k+ patches trying to bring it up to date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agep Posted October 10, 2010 Author Share Posted October 10, 2010 Rodgers bus have been added Rendertime 2hr 23min in v16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 10, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 10, 2010 Rodgers bus have been added Rendertime 2hr 23min in v16 They look great. Off to Woodstock! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Forwood Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 Terrific! Shouldn't the hubcaps have a VW embossed into them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 Shouldn't the hubcaps have a VW embossed into them? No, because they keep getting stolen or fall off. We've given up replacing them on our 2001 bug, at $65 a pop. NICE image (I will never, ever get another VW bug again. What a stupid car. The dumbest things go wrong, and cost an inordinate amount to fix) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 11, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 11, 2010 I had one of the buses in the 80's. It was much more basic than Roger's however. They weren't good in a cross wind. i got pulled over once for "weaving" because of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtaz Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 They look great. Off to Woodstock! Woodstock .... yeah .... I took my axe and put my model on the road Stian .... could I use your post? well ... I've used;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSpleen Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimblepix Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Beautiful work! Brings back a lot of memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agep Posted October 11, 2010 Author Share Posted October 11, 2010 Wow! Wonderful! What technique did you use to texture it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakerupert Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 (I will never, ever get another VW bug again. What a stupid car. The dumbest things go wrong, and cost an inordinate amount to fix) It was the only car left that held a 30ths car design for that long. I started out with a beetle like that, that belonged to my mother, which I did damage severly more then once due to his behavior as a "Heckschleuder" breaking out with its backend, but the tin used to be thicker then. Then I bought a 1971 VW Käfer 1302 convertible with broad Lemmertz wheels and Zenith twincarburettors. My best friend had one as well. It almost gave us the feeling of that yellow Ford Hot Rod from "American Graffiti", which we tried to mimic so dearly then. Well, the golden days of youth have past, but I do still drive VW, an old 1990 Golf I convertible, which is really longlasting compared to its ancestors but has not the same "charms" as a beetle and a quite new Golf for family use. Comparing the decades it always amazes me, with how "few" car you could get by then. (Maybe it will shrink back again, when the fuel gets less.) Coming back to the topic: Really, really nice models. How about building an "Erdbeerkörbchen" once. ( Golf I Convertible ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 11, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 11, 2010 How about building an "Erdbeerkörbchen" once. ( Golf I Convertible ) It's good you translated that. I read it as "Earth Beer Corpse" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 How about building an "Erdbeerkörbchen" once. ( Golf I Convertible )It's good you translated that. I read it as "Earth Beer Corpse" Or little strawberry ball. Good thing it wasn't "Erdbebenkörbchen". That would shake things up a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtaz Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Wow! Wonderful! What technique did you use to texture it? Thanks Stian .... In the action ( of course ) I separated the bodywork side and then the roof and hood, then applied a single decal on them separately. I also had to increase the value/scale of the roughness (bodywork) . In the camera I used a default film grain ( Post Effect ). After rendered I applied some filters in Photo Paint to "warm" the color in the image then I worked in the shadows to balance lighting. only that simple and efficient... EDITED : I forgot to mention that I used a sun light ( DIFUSE = OFF / SPECULARITY = ON ) and increased specularity ( S=1000 / I=600 ) in the bodywork to match the bus specularity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbenefi33 Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 I just can't get over the detail in the VW's, I like the wood stock look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Yes XTaz, you have to use the Woodstock bug in some kind of animation. It's cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakerupert Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 It's good you translated that. I read it as "Earth Beer Corpse" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animas3D Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Hey Stian, love those VWs Could you give some indication of how you lit and rendered the images. Obviously you used AO. Was there any other lighting setup? Also, would you please indicate what version of A:M you use and whether it is 64 bit. (I assume you are using v16, 64 bit). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agep Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 Hey Stian, love those VWs Could you give some indication of how you lit and rendered the images. Obviously you used AO. Was there any other lighting setup? Also, would you please indicate what version of A:M you use and whether it is 64 bit. (I assume you are using v16, 64 bit). Thanks The light blue Beetle was made by me, the dark blue/Woodstock by Marcos Rezende (Xtaz) and the bus was made by Rodger Reynolds (rodger_r). The light setup is regular AO with an HDRI environment, no other lights. I am using both v15 and v16 (64bit), have not transferred my big project over to v16 yet. But I do all my rendering in v16 due to the increased render speed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Reynolds Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Thanks for the render Stian. I always seem to have an "out-of-model" experience when I see something I built in a render I didn't generate. Something of the order of "Did I build that?". Weird, I know. On a side note, not everyone is nostalgic about old Beetle's and buses; a not so fond look at old VW's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakerupert Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 >a not so fond look at old VW's Makes you wonder, how it was possible to sell it to so many people. Have they all just been stupid or may be fallen to some devilish propagandasheme from some left overs of the third Reich? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animas3D Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 The light setup is regular AO with an HDRI environment, no other lights. Thanks, I appreciate it. I've never played around with HDRI much. By this do you mean the same thing as IBL (image based lighting)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 14, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 14, 2010 Makes you wonder, how it was possible to sell it to so many people. It was the most inexpensive car you could buy here. About $1700 in the 60's. I think i recall a promotion once that put it at $999. Even a very, very cheap Detroit car was $1900+, most were in the $2500-4000 range. And the whole hippie/Love Bug thing made it attractive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 (edited) Makes you wonder, how it was possible to sell it to so many people. Have they all just been stupid I bought the 2001 Beetle based on it's looks and that it was fortified with Turbonium! I thought the horn would go boop-boop, as any self respecting cartoon car should. It was not cheap. Stupid stuff breaks on it. Constantly. Even the idiot lights telling you "Get thee to a repair place QUICK and they will tell you whats wrong because the manual doesn't" break. It does get good gas mileage (33 mpg highway) YES! We were stupid to buy. I also own a 1994 Subaru Legacy. That has, and still works like a charm (only 30 mpg highway), and requires only normal maintenance. The only thing broken is the air conditioner. But it's ugly, boring. We expect our cars to work and last forever here in California, land of perfect weather. (We did take the beetle camping for 3 weeks, and remarkably, we could fit all our gear in trunk and back seat) Edited October 14, 2010 by NancyGormezano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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