Futuristic Luxury Vehicle WIP
Honestly, I was mostly messing around with hard surface techniques and I just liked how this component turned out. There may or may not be more to this in the future. I'm imagining this to be a ship designed by the same company that produced the IBIS, but several decades down the line as a luxury vehicle. Maybe a flying car, maybe something interstellar - I'm waiting to see where the design takes me, pretty much. But I'm getting a lot more comfortable with hard surface design, and I don't feel as restricted to super angular designs as I did before really cozying up to beveling and subdivsurface.
Front Angle
Front Detail View - Really love this new technique I learned to inset cylindrical tiny vents, so I used that as much as I could.
Front Detail View #2 - Keeping in the theme of a "luxury" transport, I leaned on some preexisting aesthetics - carbon fiber paneling, for one. I also challenged myself to incorporate an original design element - the Takeshi Precision Aeronautics emblem.
Front Detail View #3 - Another angle of that same panel and emblem. I wanted to stay within the design language of the IBIS (also a Takeshi design), but advance those aesthetics a few decades forward - less utilitarian, more gaudy.
Front Detail Shot #4 - Here's another angle of the rearmost carbon fiber panels, which I think turned out great.
Front "Headlight" View
Front "Headlight" View #2
Alright - Last glamour pic. The following are all process shots taken over the course of the 2-3 day design ordeal.
Process Shot #1 - Missing some headlight details, incomplete paneling/topology.
Process Shot #2 - Still missing a lot of paneling detail.
Process Shot #3
Process Shot #4
Process Shot #5 - This was my first go at recreating this emblem, which I did by importing the logo as an "Images as Planes" object, making it semitransparent, and knife tooling the object below. I think it turned out pretty good!