Car WIP

**Grafixman** · 29 November 2006, 12:53 AM

Yup, it's car 00, The Mean Machine.

There's also some paper cutout models at the Pepakura site:
http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-e...&search_words=
And Norman's picture was the one I was using as reference, too. But as I said, the details for the car interior were not visible. I can't figure out if the seats were arranged side by side or one in front of the other. If side by side, is the steering wheel on the left or right? Also, is the canopy glass covered or open? Little details like these. Not really very important, but it would be nice to get things as authentic as possible.
My thought was the artist designing it was a Batman freak...

**Grafixman** · 29 November 2006, 12:02 PM

Decal and materials applied. Preliminary render with Blender's internal renderer. Had to incline the chasis a bit forward because the large tail end was touching the ground. Discovered this when I was adding a ground plane.

**Availor** · 29 November 2006, 12:20 PM

Hey Gman can you model Mutley?

**Mike Bailey** · 29 November 2006, 11:22 PM

Very cool, looks better than the cartoon version.

**Intbel** · 29 November 2006, 11:33 PM

Looks dangerous to me.
The driver's vision is blocked.
Can you cut a hole in that thing so's the driver can see where s/he is going?

Gotta admit 'tis a good job you did.

My first thought upon seeing it was you were playing around with one of those cake-icing squirting things.

**Grafixman** · 30 November 2006, 01:35 AM

Muttley! You must be a mind reader, Availor. I was just pondering on how to go about modeling the characters....

Will try that as soon as I find some free time.
Raymond, if you ever watched the series, you'll discover that the characters are virtually indestructible

. Specially Dick and Muttley.

But you're right, I'm going to move the driver seat and steering wheel to one side. Left or right?

Thanks for the thumbs up. The entire group of racers feels like a good challenge. Anybody up to modeling and rendering the other cars?

**Grafixman** · 30 November 2006, 07:40 AM

Availor got me sidetracked into this one.

. I was planning to take on the cars first, then the characters. Characters are definitely harder. This is going to be a looong project. Hope it doesn't get lost in the WIP folder.