Mapping

I thought this may be of some interest and so I documented this technique in the way of a tutorial. Mapping is the best way to describe it and I used it all the way through my thesis to reach my final outcome. Its basically using a series of images and making a rendering out of them. In this example I used some paper models I had made and stuck the images of them onto the rendering to make the forms. I thought it would be best to start in a side view and build the story of the design from there. So once you have this first view the elements of the vehicle can be twisted and turned in Photoshop to match the view in which you are rendering.
I hoped it provides some form of inspiration, I think you can go in any real direction with this. So if you try it out let me know how you found using it. I like this method because it gives me a greater field of options in developing forms and communicating them. Along with this it can also bring a more human and emotional touch to the rendering.

Pocket Racer Revisited

A little sidetracked at the moment. I was cleaning up my hard drive and came across these images. So I had a little play around. An alternate take on Race car graphics and layouts. They can be a little generic at times. Look at Nascar for example, although it is tough when your car is meant to be a business card on wheels to also make it look cool. Check it!
BTW - If you are wondering why I did 3.0. I thought it would be cool to do a race number for the computer generation, that is used to seeing Microsoft Word 2.76. A different look at a racing number, thats it.

Mazda Madness Pt.2

Another Mazda Sports car this time I rippeed it up with the good old no.19 Round Brush. But slightly modified. Next week I will post some quick tutorials.
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Saab 9 3

A continuation on from doing the 3 views thing, this time a Saab. I concentrated more on the rendering quality this time trying bring a high glossy, gooey icing topping feeling to the surface. Ill leave it at that...

Super Hatch

A continuation of some ideas I have had over the past year. A Mazda RX2 Super Sports Hatch.

The ultimate wrecking machine.

After posting the images of the Mini cars I thought it would be appropriate to also post the images from which inspired it. Again through the functionality it has created some unusual design elements. In the coming months when I have spare time I would like to explore the theme further. Check it, Tank cars.

Mini Car with a twist

Well, its been a while but finally I have some work to put up. Over the next few weeks I will be able to post a lot more work too so stay tuned! This was done before my thesis, I was just playing around with some ideas that were inspired by military vehicles (next post is a collection). All the unique protection, heavy proportion and volumes of these vehicles I found a good basis for some ideation. I thought this military aspect would fit well with a city car because their simple mono volume shape you can not really play with and express in a normal approach. I find its more graphic based and being clever with bold details. Here is a sample. The first two express this theme, and the last one with its UFO body was more driven by the sketch I did for it. I thought it would be cool to rip the cockpit off a jet fighter and stick it on four wheels.