Friday, November 5, 2010

Weekend eye candy: ixlrlxi's vehicles

There’s something I’ve been meaning to show you—I pointed to this work in the introduction to our SketchUpdate newsletter a few months ago, but I’ve never mentioned it on this blog. A glaring omission, I realize.

ixlrlxi (I don’t even know his real name) is a Russian concept artist who likes to model retro-futuristic-looking vehicles in SketchUp and render them with V-Ray. They are, in a word, mouth-watering. Here’s a sample of what you’ll see when you do yourself a favor and visit this thread on conceptart.org:



Scroll to the bottom of the thread for an amazing tutorial about ixlrlxi's process.

Posted by Aidan Chopra, SketchUp Evangelist

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2 comments:

  1. Foton 1971November 7, 2010 at 3:34 AM

    WOW!
    Those designs are absolutely breathtaking, and the tutorial is great.
    I will definitely be using some of his methods when I make future vehicle models.
    His way of using intersecting to paint flames etc. on his models is great, but if you make the entity you intersect into a component you can delete it a lot faster after intersecting. -And you can reuse it again and again.

    Happy modeling,

    - Johnny

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  2. Incorrect EdNovember 8, 2010 at 4:46 AM

    Amazing models!
    He didn't use any plugins?

    Ward

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