I went on a two weeks trip to California. Took quite a few pictures and really tried to focus on framing interesting images. Made me realize I should get more into photography and maybe get a decent camera. These were shot with a Lumix FZ27.
I picked the most interesting ones for my blog:
I found another cool vehicle! From a thread over at VWvortex which I actually found through my referers.
“Had a 302 GMC 6 cylinder
You drive from the top roof like the bridge on the Enterprise
The 2 front stacked front bumpers are gone. They were 57 Chrysler.
I think the roof was a 49 Hudson
The tail lights were a combination of Kaiser Grilles and 63 Ford tail lights.
Had another fastback roof for the back of the body.
Seen it on the side of the road my whole life then one day it was gone.”
“I took the photos about 20 years ago. The bus has been crushed in Newton NC. From what I remember it had 2 – 1957 Chrysler bumpers stacked on top of each other for the front bumper. FBook member Eddie Ward remembers seeing it being hauled behind a wrecker the day it was taken from the Hubbies Bubble Bar in Denver, NC.”
“The bus you are talking about was called custom family cruiser it was built by a man in his drive way from a bus and alot of old car parts, When it was finished it was even used in the charlotte thanksgiving day parade. I would go over to my uncles house every sunday morning with my dad and we would pass the mans house, he built it in his driveway. If you know anyone that worked at holmanand moody back when they first moved to the airport location they can tell you about it. The man lived just down the street. He drove it for many years , i went into the service and lost track of it. When it was painted the lower portion was dark blue the top was white. all the chrome was like new and it was really cool , brings back some old memories . I guess it was finished it the early 60’s.”
I wish stuff like this would appear on the net like, once a week! Or better, that things like this populated the roads!
Luckily this guy is keeping the dream alive, check out the evolution:
I found that picture about a year ago, totally loved it.
Check out that spanner! And his inverted trailer!
It actually crashed looking like this and was thought to be dead forever.
But recently came back sicker than ever. He’s actually got one of those Bosozoku intercooler hose setups!!
I do hope to one day, build a car with such style. My own 92 Celica’s pretty banged up already, but I don’t think I can make those dreams come true in this country…
I’m doing an outdoor enviro. Based on one of those pictures i posted a while back.
Here’s what I have so far:
The environment is almost done. Some tweaks left, set up the materials for the far-away terrain and add the ocean in the distance, and optimize the trees (they’re not so good for performance atm).
After that I’ll model a wrecked Curtiss C46 Commando plane to lie on the rocks.
The students at the school where I work are tasked to create a retro advertisement with the 3D vehicle they are modeling. I took one of my older models, a 1951 Jaguar XK120, and made an example of what is expected. Mostly to show the post processing I did on this image.
It was rendered in Mental Ray, took about 18 minutes at 720p.
(I know it says XK150, but I just copied the text from another Jag ad)
here’s the original render, to compare:
I really should post more. I just really tend to forget I have a blog where Ican dump some stuff that shouldn’t go on the frontpage.
Here’s something I made a month or two ago:
It’s a lighting study using just 3DS Max scanline and standard lights. Nothing advanced, just the pure basics, so I’d push myself to actually understand the lighting. It’s not perfect yet, and I was putting materials on this until I sort of abandoned it
A vehicle does not get more awesome than this. Period.
It’s all russian on the site, but in short this is a sort of jet-boat that uses the “Wing In Ground” effect, meaning a wing has much more lift when it operates close above the ground or sea. That and it has missiles and turrets and 8 jet engines.
I started working on a character for a change. It’s not organic but definitely something different from the usual four-wheeled subject.
It’s the water armor from Yukito Kishiro’s Aqua Knight. I rarely read manga but this one was just too original to miss.
I spent the last two months working on this Hot Rod model, as some sort of fan-art for Brütal Legend. I really hope I can bring myself to at least creating some sort of environment for it.
19.652 tri’s, one 2048 set, two 1024 and a 256 set of textures.
Update on my level. I put a lot of work in the surrounding environment. I also made the custom waterfall mesh and material.
The custom mesh for the waterfall:
I found another one of those great blog type websites that posts awesome pictures of abandoned places and other interesting locations:
I love how they also have some sets of abandoned vehicles:
Image by Hyperfinch
Photo from Ruud De Leeuw
Fascinating page, that last one. It’s about plane wrecks in Alaska. Makes me want to create a scene like this with that snow material I made for UDK…
