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Building a Sportscar Exterior To Class-A surfacing Standards Part 1

20Mar09

class_a_tutorial-technicon_design

The Tutorial deals with a concept car created by Technicon itself. It will show the surface modeling of this car using videos in English language. The standards of the surface modeling used in the tutorial are Class A standards. The tutorial answers questions about strategic patch planning when doing modeling work. With this it’s more than a “press-the-button-tutorial”.

Available for download here (385Mb ! - high-resolution PDF and corresponding .wire files) or from autodesk website

Filed under Automotive, Class A and Tutorials. |2 Comments

Carbodydesign channel on youtube

11Oct07

I found this interesting ‘carbodydesign’ channel on youtube.
Not many Aliasstudio content in there, but some concept cars, interviews, clay modeling, and studios, things hard to see if you’re not working in there
You also can see here all their videos and titles

Sometimes a little bit to corporate flavor, but…

Filed under Automotive and videos. |2 Comments

Studiotools practice: Modeling an Audi S5 spoke #2

06Aug07

So here are the result of the practice that I proposed in this post: Studiotools practice - Modeling an Audi S5 spoke. Nobody join me in this modeling :( I had a good time anyway!

So as I wished, I spend some time (2 days) on exploring the renderings ways. I did them in imagestudio which appears to me not to be a good rendering software, I hate the aleatory way to place the lights, but that have the advantage to be quiet simple and have a clean interface.
I did, ‘for fun’, a little bit post production in photoshop (modifying the background and inserting the logo)

I’m posting the screen shots of the modeling. I start a thread about this mag on the www.cg-car.com’s forum. There are some interesting and constructive comments about the errors in the modeling. However, as this was only a step of the Audi S5’s modeling, I won’t spend more time on correcting these errors…I should have…
The screen shot are not commented, but just to let you know, the major problem I encountered was (as often it seems in AliasStudio) filleting with the round tool. I finally have to do some part by ‘hands’: the fillets joining the ‘ring (thumbnail #9 down here).

As usual, comments, questions, are welcome!

Filed under AliasStudio-Studiotools, Arno villard's work and Automotive. |10 Comments

AliasStudio automotive modeling: Audi TT 2006 by ‘Legolaz’

27Jul07

Found this 16 pages thread Audi TT 2006 [Studio tools] on www.cg-car.com by ‘Legolaz’ user
I found particularly interesting the questions (…where the hood meets the fender…) of ‘miguel883′ on page9

The steps are not very well described (as often, curves, continuity, are not shown…)
However, a nice level modeling, not a technical class A, but nice…and really nice rendering!

Filed under Automotive and Forum thread. |1 Comment

Studiotools practice: Modeling an Audi S5 spoke

24Jul07

I’m starting a new automotive oriented Studiotools modeling exercise: An audi S5 spoke
(I have in the idea to model the car later on, but let’s start with some nicely done spokes!)
If you’re looking for something to model, it could be a nice way to compare the way we are approaching the object.
Here is the background image I used.

Audi S5 spoke

The basic set up of the .wire file (Studiotools) is available here for download.

Above, a preview of the file
- The file isn’t set up with units!
- Here are some more exterior references pictures of the Audi S5 coupe.

So if you’re filling to model this Audi spoke and talk about it drop me a line.
As you may know I’m not an advanced user of the software, I’m learning it.

This time I would like to put emphasis on the renderings, a time consuming exercise but that gives a nice felling of satisfaction.
I’ll be posting later on the evolution of my work…

27-07-2007 update
To give a little more visibility to this ‘invitation to model the Audi S5 spoke’, I posted this thread:
Audi S5 rim: AliasStudio (StudioTools) modeling on the www.cg-cars.com’s forum
…yes…my screen name is chupicho!

06/08/2007 update.
…10 days later…I finally achieve this exercise! See the work in this post.

Filed under AliasStudio-Studiotools, Arno villard's work, Automotive and Practices. |2 Comments

Studiotools automotive modeling: ‘Clio RS 2006′ by the ‘Rain Knight’

04Jul07

I found this 30 pages thread on www.cg-car.com, a step by step modeling of a ‘Clio RS 2006′ car, a french Renault car, initiated by the user ‘Rain knight’.
It seems that the author is an beginner Alias modeler at Renault’s head office.
The way the surfaces are created is not shown, as well as the continuities, but it gives an idea how the car is modeled.

There is also a discussion about the renderings.

Filed under AliasStudio-Studiotools, Automotive and Forum thread. |1 Comment

First studiotools’s automotive modeling: Audi TT

12Jun07

So…after a few month of Alias Studiotools practices, time as come to see how I behave aproaching a car modeling (Here’ are the links to get the blueprints ). I won’t browse the problems I encountered during this exercise, the the list could be endless. However I think the Audi TT was a good car choice for a first automotive modeling : It’s shape is clearly ‘readable’ and there is not many ‘tricky’ parts (…and that has for ending point… the modeling a legendary car!)
The renderings are done with imagestudio (A first experience to me to) .