Enzo, Getting Bored

After spending two days doing nothing, just nothing, I have decided to stop working on Enzo. Aahh! Kinda tired of working on it. I'm just left with rigging the model and then well, animation. Well fuck with technical, I'm bored of life. Don't find pleasure in much things these days, gotta resurrect my passion.

ttyl :D
[ Don't feel like saying anything more ]

Enzo, Lights :((

Uhh...I found this part to be the most vague and imperfect. I was supposed to add one large single, circular head light, and below it a small surface for indicator. What I actually did was much more different that the original image.

I know they really suck :(
One elliptical light with four small light combining to give a bad look of main headlight. Below it, is a small, lol, *large* indicator, even larger than the main headlight. Weird right?

And these tail lights! Damn, I feel like I copied them from Audi [although I did not], The tail lights looks like real mess. I was supposed to created two cylindrical tailight and then making a shallow depth on the body of the car [as I had discussed in the past blog]. But the body lacked that number of vertices so that I could have modeled them as in the original [you can blame on me for lack of awareness and skills, and...lack of smartness :D ]. The tail lights are the real mess. I just extruded inside the body and got the tail light box, and then I just started playing with the polys to give a so-called-detailed shape.

[ Probably all these messy thing didn't made me feel to write this blog earlier :D ]

Oh oh!

Hello...errr...Readers. Damn! I haven't updated the progress. By now, I have completed the modelling and texturing of Ferrari Enzo. But I was not able to update the blog.
Ok Here are some rendered pics of the car I have made. The important thing left with car is rigging, such that the next process in the development, i.e. animation, gets easy.

As I recall, the last thing I discussed was about modelling wheels :D Lol I have come too far from that. I have modeled a weird set of head lights, My own registration plate :P with my logo, and of course used mental ray architecture properties to give appropriate material look to each mesh in the scene.

For the next time, I would be discussing all the above and rigging as I have not discussed them.

Crossed Million Polys Markup XD

Damn!
I just included a detailed version of wheels, with good tyres and stylized disc brakes. Actually four of these :P I haven't even started on side mirrors and light [possibly more of detailing]. Already fucked it up.

Lol! Why to give a damn! Let's see what happens!

Enzo, Wheelie

I enjoyed shaping these wheels. 4hr(s) of fun. Easy though. I created them in a separate file for making as a template.

Used a tube, initially, for the rubber tires, and then I detached the internal surface for working on the wheel.

Working on them was lot easier most of the section are symmetric, what you do at one place is to be done at another [x4].

Used bump mapping over the rubber tyre. The procedure is usually to adjust the map through UVW mapping and then copying this map to bumps.

These days, my working hours are reduced. Studying Mentalray[did that last week] and ZBrush, they would be a requirement to take my designs to next levels. but like always, spending time enjoying life with no insecurity of future :D

Enzo, Lower Body

Didn't work for much time, just edited the surface for smoothness. Check out the following:

Lower Frame:
The surface under the car and the wheels. Just extruded the edges from the side and then connected/capped the two giant circles to cover up behind the wheels. Then I simply extruded those edges again to cover the area under the car.

From the back, you will observe the curvature of the lower surface. That's just to cover the curved surface behind the rear bumper.

Side Skirts Vents:
After applying the detailing for the door, I realized I missed them. It took a little long and finally got the shape; Although they are longer than in the original car.

Enzo, Main Body Detailing

I have skipped the blog entry for yesterday. I did work on Enzo but was not in mood for posting :D Met some friends and had been hanging out. For past two days I've been working on details. I guess the shaping of the main body is complete, all left is the detailing.

In some portions I had to make some major changes to accommodate some details. In some portions I have modified the original design of Enzo, I would blame my observation as I didn't paid heed in the earlier stages of shaping. Hence I thought of modifying a 'little' from the original design.

Cut(s) in the section:

You will observe the cutting(s) are inaccurate; different from the original design [blame on my observation :( ]. The door are smaller and the cut(s) are very straight.

I studied two techniques of creating those: One is to detach the polys and the extrude the respective edges; Other is to make two parallel edges, running along the surface, and extrude the polys inside. Rather applying both at the right place, I applied the second manner in every place.

As I'm not working on interiors [for now], I was not in mood to detach them and rename them [and then giving a hierarchy between objects]. What I felt, detaching would be beneficial when I'm working on interiors of the car and animation of the object [which I hope to learn, cause my next project is going to be on ZBrush].

Taillight:

Just a single piece, not complete. The bigger problem than shaping these is the depression in the model. Gotta find some real good idea to shape them.

Another thought, the surface of the lights are rough, aligned parallel lines. I thou
ght of shaping them [being silly and stupid] but then I thought of two more better solution: bump maps and modifiers, which would be considered in the later phase.

Major Modification:

I had to expand the rear of the car. While adjusting the taillight, I observed that I left no space for the depression below the lights.It gave more space for lot many things :P

Spoiler:
They look very very small. The original one has one smooth and straight, running along the surface of the car. I would modify and would add more like these, just to accommodate with the looks.

Side Vents:
I knew they were the diamonds on the car. Adding mesh over the depression would make them look better, gotta make them more deep.

Roof & Rear:

This is the detail over the top, and figure below show the space for indicator and registration plate. Piece of Pie.

Enzo, Roof and Frame

This would be the 4th day on this project. Last day I was busy being lazy and

thought of doing some other stuff. In last post, I forgot to mention the lower section I made. It gave a very cool look to the car from the rear.

Today, or since 1pm, I have made the roof, the windshield frame, and many other modification to the main body.

Roof:

Nothing much to it, just extruded the edges and made a polygon, and then just shaped them. I used a shell modifier to give them some width.

Windshield Frame:

I created a shape [spline] out of the outer edges of the windshield. Then I created pol

ys which would be then extruded along the spline I just created. This frame would give a hard boundary to the windshield and the side windows, would rather say 'made them look

clean'.

Rear Lower Exhaust Vents:

This part was pretty interesting than the earlier work. This part consists of both hard and soft features and gave a very sharp detail in the rear.

Right now I'm working on the side window frame. In Enzo, the side window frame is divided into two : bottom+ sides [single curve] and top [straight and broad]. For the lower part I would just extrude and detach polys from the main body which would give a basic shape to it, and for the top I decided to extract polys from the roof and then give shape.

Enzo, Windows

Yesterday, I was surprisingly was tired, Went dead around 12. Day started around 11am, the usual time, and the routine followed. By morning, downloaded two more Micheal Moore's documentary and had them every time I took a break.

OK back to business, first I led my impatience dominate over, thought of detailing the main body, So I completed the lower middle section of front middle vent. I guess that completes the basic front model. The spoiler is the only mesh left at the rear to model which I think can be modeled later.

What is left is the center part of the body, the windshield, side windows, and rear one.

Usually, for ease, main body is modeled first before creating the windows. This makes the task more easier as It allows to extract boundary [as splines] for the windows. I think I wanted to do the reverse. I was more concerned about the shape and smoothness of the window.

I used NURBS for them. The only problem with them is triangles, but they give the best smooth detail for the windshield on the expense of high poly count. The side windows were created by patch, as it won't require much of smoothness.