Yeah, it's kind of cheating because the entire greenhouse is lifted from a different car. The windshield is more steeply raked and the rear 3/4 sheetmetal would have to be totally different.
EDIT: @niky, I probably should have read the article yesterday. Just looked at it and you did a wonderful job with the wire frames and whatnot. I was wondering how you made the design look so proper. Is that some special software or is that all PS work? And is this PS stuff your secret hobby or what? You should probably concentrate on doing that haha. Developing renderings for these publications seems to be a decent gig. Not sure how much money is in it but they all do it so somebody is getting paid.
All old-school vector graphics work. I used to design corporate logos in High School, and I'm used to drafting by hand, so it's easy enough to build a 3D wireframe in 2D. Only issue is you can't really do true 3D work in Corel, and I was severely constrained by the small size of the original JPEGs, which is why it took so much fiddling. Looking at it, yeah, the roof looks higher than I thought it would be, but that's what happens when your pixels are around an inch in size on the car!
The advantage of vector work is you don't need to import the entire car into a 3D program, and you're not constrained by what jpegs you can find lying around the net. The disadvantage is you can't get the surface detail and realism you can from Photoshop. I could wire and color then export to Photoshop for better surface texture, but re-saving a JPEG so many times makes it lose all resolution. As it was, I originally had to save the layers separately and merge them with the original picture in Photoshop until I found a JPEG with less compression.
As for work... Nah. Let Theo Chin and the other guys with too much time on their hands and true 3D rendering programs do the photoshops... I'm in this biz purely to drive.
Please stop putting new cars in my head.
My brother just ordered his Macan Turbo for February delivery. My mate has a Cayman S. My 75yo mom has a Juke Nismo. I'm trying not to get the Mustang since the '89 LX 5.0. I'm 43 and always wanted an MX5, but I'm just a kid in a candy store. Now what, NISSAN are making a small displacement Z?
After seeing it with the cage, i'd say @niky 's Ginetta-esque bubble-top coupe render, looks more plausible than the swoopy version in that pic up top. Especially if Mazda were to do a coupe race series.
After seeing it with the cage, i'd say @niky 's Ginetta-esque bubble-top coupe render, looks more plausible than the swoopy version in that pic up top. Especially if Mazda were to do a coupe race series.
Well, like I've been trying to say... the car is really deceptively low-slung. Most "coupe" renders have the actual metal part of the roof just two or three inches from the top of the seat!
Well, like I've been trying to say... the car is really deceptively low-slung. Most "coupe" renders have the actual metal part of the roof just two or three inches from the top of the seat!
After seeing it with the cage, i'd say @niky 's Ginetta-esque bubble-top coupe render, looks more plausible than the swoopy version in that pic up top. Especially if Mazda were to do a coupe race series.
The white car is the red reveal car.
There's also pictures of the engine bay now for the LHD model. Also showing a 7000rpm redline.(red lines starting at 6500 and solid red at 7000rpm ala rx8)
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't care either way lol. The only thing that bothers me is the panel gap is unnecessarily big. Also, the hood cut line looks better from the front, even though we'll never be looking at it from this view because the car is so low.
You're not the only one. I love it. That detail doesn't bother me one bit. Having a new MX-5 that looks aggressive straight from the factory, has sold me on its looks.
