As much as I like the 59 Caddy, modeling existing cars holds no interest for me. I prefer to blend features I like from several cars into a custom creation. That comes from growing up in Los Angeles in the 60's where every weekend, custom cars from miles around cruised the boulevard. It was like the movie American Graffiti on steroids.
Lately I've become interested in European cars from the 1930's. We called them "Big Fender Cars". They are true works of art.
Would love to see a tutorial on a Delahaye or Duesenberg/Aubrn/Cord form the fat fender era...
I too love the early years of American hot rodding and those traditional styled hot rods. Not much into street rods but some rat rods remind me of the trad styled hot rods.
In the early 1960s I would clutter the family kitchen table with the parts from a 1/24th Monogram or 1/25th AMT, Revell, MPC, Johan, Aurora plastic car model kit much to the chagrin of my Mom who was trying to set the table for super.
In 1983 I restored a 1960 Corvette which I still own and take for a pleasure cruise on a sunny summer's day in Nova Scotia.
I hope you have a youtube channel. I learnt more about MOI3D and car modeling in your post then all the stuff I read & watched elsewhere.
Can I ask what renderer do you use?
I use e-onsoftware's Vue or DAZ 3D's Iray. I also use 3DCoat's native renderer.
However since all three apps can not import .3dm, I must export from MOI3D as an obj which often gives me very bad topology (and I tried alot of settings)and causing issues with uv mapping and texturing in 3D Coat.
3DC's auto retopo feature gives me bad topology and I hate manual retopologyzing in 3D Coat. It's like modeling the object twice.
I use Keyshot Pro for rendering using the OBJ export from MoI. The two programs play very well together.
Keyshot can also import NURBs. They claim it gives smoother edges, but I can't perceive any improvement, so I stay with OBJ. Sometimes I adjust the MoI exporter to suit the particular model if needed. I've never had an issue with tessellation.
I have no experience with texturing programs. Normal Maps in Keyshot is all I use for texture.
Thank you! I do have a car model that I started designing over a year ago. I need to put on the final details and make the tutorial. This one uses Max's SubD script for the body, and NURBS for everything else.
I'm a big fan of custom car builder Rick Dore - do a Google Image search on his name. He's heavily influenced by Delahaye and other Big Fender cars from that era.
The more times I read this, the more I learn. This is an tremendous resource for anyone interested in modeling cars, especially classic/vintage American cars.
I simply can not thank you enough.
Do you have a youtube channel or an Instagram account where you showcase more of your 3D models?
