Magnum 50cc Scooter

[solo]

It's December, whoohoo!! means I get to play again.

I have a few niggling odds and ends to complete before fully playing however today I started on a new model, after being inspired and jealous by a few awesome recent models.

Anyway, I decided to model a popcorn machine/scooter, I bought a couple of these a few years ago for the wife and I, and really enjoy riding them to the pub (coming home can be dodgy sometimes)

I'm going to be using SDS 2 for most of my modeling and texturing, I'm alpha/beta testing it as most here know. Okay, here is the fairing in stages of proxy to subdivded.

scooter proxys.jpg

Here is what I have so far..

Scooter1 a.jpg

[Rich O Brien]

Great to have you back Pete! I wanna see that Batmobile you mentioned on FB

[Stinkie]

Looks great.

[solo]

Thanks, more playing, gonna change a few details and add a few new one when I get to play again.

Rich, I will take a look for it, it was on my old dual core that I gave to my kids a while back, I have an old 60's version as well as an attempt at the tumbler.

Scooter1.png

[michaliszissiou]

wow nice modeling pete!!!

[boofredlay]

[spence]

Very nice Pete In the first image that shows the front end, are you roughly shaping out the fender then applying Sub Divide & Smooth?

[solo]

Yes, I create a rough proxy shape, then run SDS2 1 iriteration, then I use the SDS sculpting tools to refine the shape before subdividing a second time for finished shape, if I make a mistake I can just reduce the poly's with the SDS poly reducer (like an undo)fix and divide again.

Here is an image of the proxy undergoing a divide, I can see how it will look before committing, really cool feature.

[solo]

Slightly more progress, here you can see the wires.

[brodie]

wow, that's great pete. how'd you do the tires?

-brodie

[solo]

I never saved any screen shots, however, I have an old tutorial (really old) that I made for a car tyre/tire, I used a similar process.

[d12dozr]

exquisite modeling, Pete

[solo]

The trick is knowing when to stop.

[Stinkie]

[ken28875]

Wow, really nice model and a terrific render you have here, Pete. I am quite impressed.

How long did it take for you to model it?

What rendering engine did you use?

Best,

_KN

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My interview with ASGVIS/V-Ray:
http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=886&Itemid=466&utm_source=Publicaster&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winning%20Subject&utm_term=Read%20more%20about%20Ken%20Nguyen
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
Sketchup for Sci-Fi Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030

[jsteacy]

wow Pete you have amazing modeling skills. So did I miss something, is there a SDS v2 out? or are you lucky enough to test it out?

[brodie]

Great render Pete. I haven't kept up, what renderer are you using these days?

-Brodie

[solo]

Thanks. I use Thea render.

[boofredlay]

That is fantastic Pete. Makes me jealous that I don't have much time to play myself.

[chloesdad]

Beautifully done, Pete. It's great to see quality work. I'm still playing with Thea, and so far, I like it. You reminded me a while back that because it's a WIP, tutorials are not available yet. Do you know of any decent lessons or tips that may be out there currently?
Thanks.

[johnsenior1973]

:o wow Pete you have amazing modeling skills. So did I miss something, is there a SDS v2 out? or are you lucky enough to test it out?

I'm going to be using SDS 2 for most of my modeling and texturing, I'm alpha/beta testing it as most here know.

[modelhead]

after being inspired and jealous by a few awesome recent models.

...you like to counter with a knockout.. beautiful little machine.

[solo]

Thanks guys, last shot, moving onto bigger things.

[rcossoli]

almost speechless, amazing
sketchup really at another level
sincere congratulations!

[Bryan K]

Beautiful!

You have successfully crushed my ambition.

[pjalbert]

This is one sick piece of modelling. I think is time for a tutorial

[michaliszissiou]

Ah Paris.
Pete Some dirt is missing, just to say something.
These hdri based reflections are great. And work fast. The trick is simple though. Its a 'normals' projection and a fresnel trick. (this was for advanced users lol). Its true and a joke. Specs maps and effects work like this. Real reflections is a ray tracer thing and cost a lot of render time. And not always the best.

[11zulu]

Excellent work Sir!

[solo]

Thanks guys, I made a few changes, mostly to front.

Scooter almost done.png

Here is a teaser of the plugin I used to shape this model.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1129899/capture-37.gif

You will notice on the fairing and other parts that the mesh seems to be tighter in some areas, that's part of the new SDS, you can select certain areas and divide more for better smoothness and detail.

[ken28875]

Wow, this is really awesome, Pete!

About that SDS2, where did you get it from?

I could not find it anywhere even on Whaat's blog. Smustard still has the version 1.

Thanks!

_KN

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My interview with ASGVIS/V-Ray:
http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=886&Itemid=466&utm_source=Publicaster&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winning%20Subject&utm_term=Read%20more%20about%20Ken%20Nguyen
My interview with Sketchupartists.org:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/sketchup-art-in-the-online-game-industry/
Sketchup for Fantasy Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27028
Sketchup for Sci-Fi Art:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030