Playing around with Lux Render and it's different features Carpaint material, Bloom, built in Lut, Color aberration.
The van is based on the Econoline, Colors are from the scooby doo van.

Nice job Val. The paint job is great. I'm a fan of cartoon cars and mini-cars / vans.

What basic methods did you use to construct the body?

Ed Ferguson

when I was a kid I liked Ed Roth's work. not that this is it. Just made me like cartoony vehicles.
I made the general shape in Blender as it's really quick to to model it. I then imported it into Moi and I add and subtract with boolean operations. most indents are trimmed, offset, and then blended. it's all pretty straight forward. what's nice with moi is I can add style colors and they import into blender as separate materials.

Thanks for sharing Val. Looks like you're 60 miles north of me.

I'm a big fan of Ed Roth as well. Built a couple of his models when I was a kid, and finally got to see a couple of his creations in museums as an adult.

The guy was definitely ahead of his time. Maybe one day I'll try to model one of his bubble top cars.

Ed Ferguson

yes I believe I am just north of you. built a few plastic models myself.
Cheers,
Val

Also wanted to express my admiration.
Find it very cute, if I may say so ;-)

thanks Subpa

Very nice work! Love the neat shapes and the renderings.

Very cute render! Bravo!

thanks Metin and Marco

Oh man, that is great!

thanks cad-guy

Well done, congrats!

Scooby wants to know if it's Electric or Gasoline?

Cool vehicle!...and big format of image! :)

thanks MajorGrubert
Brendan, the future is electric.
Frenchy Pilo, thanks, too big? Figured the site resized things.

Yes not a problem but sometime for any reason resize don't works at the beginning of dowloading...and surely take more time to upload and more place on the cloud hosting! ;)

internet speeds aren't really a problem where i am but i can see if someone has a bad connection it can be a problem. i remember having a vt100 terminal hooked up to a modem to access the university mainframe back in the 80's, now that was slow. long before the www and anything gui based that i had access to.

You bring back memories Val.

I learned to program in 1975 using a teletype machine (not a video terminal !) time-shared with the Loma Linda University MUMPS system ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System") miles away.

We had to type in our programs while a line of guys stood behind you waiting their turn. And if your program crashed, then outcries would fill the room as you sank in your chair. And if you crashed the system, you had better run for the door.

Looking back, it was a great experience because it forced you to run & debug the code in your head before testing it in front of the world.

Ed Ferguson

Ha, My programming skills were limited to Q-basic. I was programming micro-controllers to drive servo motors and sensors (making robotic art at the time)

the vt100 stuff was to write papers for school. write the thing, set all your commands, send it off to print. Jump in the car drive to the school and stand in line to pick up your hot freshly plastic sealed paper. rip it open only to find you screwed up the font command where you then had to run to an open terminal and correct things and get back into line.

I do not whine about using a computer these days.