Please crit my modified Nissan Skyline R34

[polygron]

Hi gang, (first off, wasnt sure whether to post it here or in the student section, as i have just graduated from a degree in 3D animation, so posted it in both). Would love some opinions and crit on my 3D car, it was used for my final year major project. Eventually i would like to enter into the automotive business. PLEASE tell me what you think as this is infact my first car modelled in maya.

Cheers.....

http://www.geocities.com/jimbob\_uk20/FinSkyline.html

[avixcore]

the modelling looks great! but the tex/material looks too... bland :/.. and the environment isn't giving the bext reflects...

just my 2c... but it looks great!

[warbreed-666]

The model looks very good and the textures look ok, the scene environment totally destroys the entire scene.
Better lighting, and scene development would do wonders! The work you have done on the model has huge potential but your killing it with a rushed scene.

[polygron]

i do agree, the scene does look rushed, because it was! the scene and its textures only took me a couple of hours to do, i just wanted to place the car in an environment of some kind, so i could get some reflections. thanx for the comments, theyve helped alot.
ill keep bluggin away....

[jtk77]

model looks good, excect for the areas where there are bumps. Like on some of the fenders and the front window. Is this NURBS? or was it at one time? If so, it looks like a few crowed ISOPARMS or some doubled up ones. I'd like to see a wire frame anyway.

The lighting is kinda poor. The beams coming out of it are just wrong.
I think it needs more time on the design stage after the modeing and it might turn out nice. With everyone doing cars nowadays , you have to be totaly on top of all aspects of it. the rendering, design, texturing, the whole deal of it won't hold up nexto the hundreds of renders out there.

[polygron]

thanx for the comments jtk77, and i do agree on some aspects of what your saying, but im not sure where you think there could be crowded or doubled up isoparms. While modelling, ive been through the whole of the car inside and out, and there are no such mistakes. it may be what ur seeing (on the window especially) is just the texture, because that window is a boundraried surface thats been rebuilt, and so there would be no close or doubled up isopams.
Also, what bumps?? what picture and where are they?? i dont no where youve seen them as im quite sure there cant be any.

i do agree on the rendering, i need more time on the textures, but the lighting was ment to be like this, i wanted to create the atmosphere of a creature of the night. so only a small portion of the cars in light! (excluding the beams, they are quite poor i no).

also "I think it needs more time on the design stage after the modeling", what do you mean by this??? i can only think you mean the design of the tunnel, or a different environment??

thanks again, look forward to hearing from you!

[jtk77]

Hey, i think you are right, its the banding in the window I mistake for bad isoparms. As well as how the reflections are working towards the back.

Wich brings me to the point of the design, I ddi ment textures and materials, but also, yes I ment the envirment, and I ment how it is displayed in general.
I would , if you are show casing modeling, put it more in a show room style , all sides and then maybe an action show like you have. but seriously put as much time into the design of where it is for an action shot as you probably have the car, it makes for a much more professtional display of you talent. Just an observation.
Good work man! I think you need to take it upto the next level.

[funk247]

yo dude. lookin real good. you should put your animation online too. it looks well good in the animation. i think the only thing that stands out in my opinion is the continuety between the car door and the bonet. it looks as if it should carry on straight rather than bending up towards the top of the door panel. think this looks slightly odd. but maybe thats just me : ) should probably start posting in the proffessional forum now too, as i am a fellow graduate. see you at graduation : ) redeye ( jake ) keep up the good work

[polygron]

yo mate, cheers for the post. just to confirm that the door is ment to be this shape, as this is the shape used on this particular racing version of the car, and the body panel coming from this is the same shape as it is on my model, as these pieces were the only ones that were directly referenced from blueprints(as well as windows and top, as these are never normally modified, plus its the distingtive shape of the car, so couldnt really be changed).
its all to do with the aerodynamics of the racing version(in some respects) thats why the arches(front and back panels) are so flared and wide.

catch u soon dude, only a couple of weeks to go until were in them dreaded gowns!

[polygron]

thanks for all the comments "jtk77", much apreciated. i will certainly take on board all the points youve mentioned. cheers...

[funk247]

cool. i c. well if its all in the name of aerodynamics, then im sure its all good. does looks very hot anyhow. l8er m8. jake

[funk247]

cool. i c. well if its all in the name of aerodynamics, then im sure its all good. does looks very hot anyhow. l8er m8. jake