CAGD 330 - Digital Modeling II

  This week, the main progress which I made on the car assignment was to panel the car into it’s separate pieces and begin adding finer details which are a part of the main mesh of the car. I was also able to complete the tire of the car, which was a little more complicated than I had initially anticipated.  At this point, with the most major parts of the mesh blocked out and somewhat finalized, it was very easy to panel the car into it’s separate parts. Each of the panels around the windows contain a very prominent chrome trim, which I was able to model out as a separate piece by duplicating faces where the window and the body of the car met, then extruding them out and fencing the edges. I paneled the hood, gullwing doors, and trunk by cutting some new geometry into the topology, and/or incorporating the previously existing topology into the shape which the panels would take.  There are only a handful of details on the car body which I need to model, and the majorit...

 Classic Car Progress 2 I am modeling the Mercedes-Benz 300SL. I have made it past the blockout stage and have now entered the section where I model finer details into the body of the car. A large part of the modeling that needed to be done for my car specifically was massaging points to ensure that the model would smooth correctly.  The 300SL comes from an era of cars where they tended to have completely smooth curves and little to no hard edges, which means that the placement of edge flow and the vertices on the model need to be consistently checked on to make sure that there are no lighting issues when I smooth the model. Even with that in mind, I still have some lighting issues where highlights are not continuous across the model, so it is something I am hoping to get feedback on during class.  I modeled the front grille, headlights, and rear lights. Additionally, I managed to model the front and rear bumpers. The bumpers were very straightforward, as I could simply b...