King Kombi - Breakdown
Antenna 360
Axe & shovel
Military antenna 360 stills
Box and jerry can
Messy reference board
Blueprints of the VW T2A van
One of the first WIPs. I had no idea how challenging this project will be. 😂
I modeled the back suspension at the end. That's why many of my WIPs were showing floating back of the car.
Closeup of the jerry can
Back of the car, for a fridge/container I used a model I made few years ago :)
Details... Some of them are not even visible that much, but they make the model stand out at the end!
Another invisible detail. I just had to. 😂
Will it work? I have no idea... 😄
After modeling all of the cables and small details the top of the car started to look really nice
UVs! Most relaxing part! FYI, I'm not crazy. 😅
Hippie, colorful car. Right before real texturing.
HP and LP. After cleaning up I had to name 160 objects. It weas a bit crazy, but I definitely reccomend having a nice tidy collection setup, it just makes the life easier.
Texturing process. I was playing with colors first, so that's why you can see the uniform rust on the doors and the beautiful clean tires.
Finished, textured car. You can see how i divided my model into chunks. I'm not showing the inside because.. I don't like it 😋
One of the texture sets breakdown. Just because there were lots of smaller objects inside one texture set collection, I had to separate different materials. I used the same rust/dirt materials for every single one texture set to make it look consistent
The scene where all the render magic happened. I used Cycles, as always. I'm doing my post processing in Photoshop. Nothing fancy there, just some options in Camera Raw and bit of overpainting (lights, darker areas etc).
Volumetrics nodes setup
Bonus 1: Sometimes you just need to do something silly... 😂 But you have to admit, it looks good!
Bonus 2: I made a weird/funny uvs series on Twitter. Unwrapping is fun but sometimes.... Just look what happened! 😂 It is uv-art!
Bonus 3: Happy uv wishing you a beautiful day! Thank you for stopping by!
ta-daaa, finished car!
Breakdown time!
Again a lot of you asked for some behind the scenes of creating this cute little beast.
And here it is! It took some time but I hope you'll enjoy.
Please read captions under images! 😉 And be sure to scroll all the way down!
Once again, thanks to Alejandro Burdisio for the amazing concept!
Next time - a "car commercial" video, stay tuned!