More Colors For The Blender 3D Electric Car Model
My brother and I last night were on
Skype for some time discussing the Blender 3D model of my electric car
design. We both agreed that more colors were needed to decide what
would be best in a model or the real deal. With this lengthy discussion
was the idea of having a car in red, dark red, and bright yellow. With
Blender 3D this is an easy task to change color but still takes a
little time to get little details in the computer model to look right.
Lighting plays a big part in this process along with some changes that
needed my attention concerning the model itself. I did not like the
original windshield that I had shown you here with the blue model of the
car. The windshield just did not work for me so I spent some time with
the redesign and came up with what you see here. Something that looks
to be actually possible and still look good at the same time. One other
change that I saw with the computer model was to have the roll bar
supports showing in the design. It looks good but in reality this would
take some doing to get it built into a real car. Possible but probably
not easy. I like the look though and that is what counts here.
The whole process of coming up with
three more colors for the computer model only took me a few hours and
once again gives you a good idea of what can be done using Blender 3D
software. For those of you who have just found my website here Blender
3D is a free modeling and animation software that you can download
online. It has a steep learning curve to use the software but there are
numerous tutorials for beginners to get you started. I had to slug
through this process over 10 years ago when the software was still quite
new. It has improved greatly since that time and a lot of great
features have been put into the software to be able to compete with the
big boys like Maya (an animation industry staple). It has been gaining
ground every year since it's creation by remaining open source. This
is where Joe Average like me and you can contribute ideas to the makers
of Blender and actually improve on it. Great software for creative
types like you and I.
So with out going any further, here
are the new colors for the electric car model that I pulled together in
just a few short hours time.
This dark maroon color is my favorite of the bunch. Very classy looking I think.
Red is always a good color also for a car but I think it needs some white accents. Stripes might be nice down the sides.