Moved on the back. Might hit a few snags with non-isometric lines.


Edited by The Mozack - 15 March 2009 at 12:33am

Looking nice so far.

I like it too...

You're sure one for perfection :P

Very nice. Keep it up, I like it.

I find that usually that is the hardest part of the piece.

Austin A95? it looks like one, but a wee bit more boxy.

looks very good so far, reflections will definately add some life to it though.

This is getting quite cool!

My suggestions:
You can easily get the non perfect lines (on the front part of the car for example) a bit better by aaing using the green colors from the car.

The front part looks really awesome, there is an amazing amount of detail in it. In the rest of the car there is not. I am not sure how you could improve it, but maybe you can think of something :)

The roof color can be slightly more cream color. Just as in the original.

The cars look that nice and polished due to their extreme shinyness. You can only acchieve that look with a lot of contrast, and your car now lacks some for sure in my opinion!



But yes, reflections are hard... :(

EDIT:
I am not sure if this is very helpful, because it was quite hard to edit your perfect lines a bit loosely and quickly.
But I hope you can get some ideas out of this:



It should probably be even more black than thisone. Merge wheel colors with car colors, and maybe start with a not so bright green. Use the referrences :D

EDIT2
I just read you do not want to go over 16 colors.. This is very possible for sure! 1 background, 6 green, 1 black, 4 white, 2 interrior, yellow, orange.
It  is very doable, so go for it!


Edited by Lollige - 17 March 2009 at 1:58am

I am the color guy, I had to wait with commenting until you started on colors ;)

Also, there is not much to improve on your design ;)

EDIT:
Your new car was more edit friendly.

15 colors for you.





Edited by Lollige - 17 March 2009 at 7:57am

imo, don't over do it with adding those accesories.

Ok, the rack will be left out. That's not a usual item to put on this part of the car anyway (as far as it appears in its native country). The sunroof is perfect though, but if there is still objections, removing it will not be much of a problem compared to the rack.

Edited by The Mozack - 18 March 2009 at 7:38am

I know it's not standard on the stock model, but some C+C on how to improve it is welcomed. It is after all there for a purpose, but it's way too easy to be removed.

Fair enough. Inverted the colours on the sunroof, among others. Brought the saturation of the green down a bit more and widen the contrast between the reflections of the white sky and darker ground. The roof to the back has been cut down for a more curvy profile, and interiors (which reference was hard to come by) and shadows on the underside are currently being dealt with. Might look at the hubcaps later. 17 colours currently.


Edited by The Mozack - 19 March 2009 at 2:32am

Actually, I just found a stray green under the front door. Fixed that and the car is within the 16 colour limit now.

Btw, by thicker lines, you mean the black outline?


Edited by The Mozack - 19 March 2009 at 3:31am

Mostly the lines ON the motor cap are the ones I mean :)

This contrast is of particular interest. The hues of the two lightest greens were moved slightly toward blue, and the rest yellow. Looks like it should fit in well with the grey tones.

No comments? Maybe Pixelation could offer better input.

The red circled area looks pretty tight to me but the ziz-zag looking thing in the drivers window, above the seat is distracting, I'm not too sure what it is.  Also, and this is a very minor thing, the steering wheel seems to get sort of lost as thin as it is and lacking any highlights.

Here is the current grille of the car...



...and the newer version.

The car as it currently is. Made modifications on the wheels (redoing the hubcabs and rims), and made outline adjustments. Also, three shades of red had to be added for the reflection of the front windscreen. This means there are now 19 colours counted.

Shadows come next.


Edited by The Mozack - 03 April 2009 at 11:55am

Looks ready. With three more colours for transparency shades, that brings the final colour count to 22.

Took a little bit of time with an overhead view of the rear as well just to be thorough. Done it in a rush, so it's clearly less polished, but I have no intention of working on that further.

In light of recent events, I've decided to create another European car of a similar era, this time a Swedish model. Because I'm only a few hours in, the car body design is still unfinished. The Westminster is being used as a comparison, although the size of this car can be assumed to be slightly smaller but uses the same tire size.

Finalized body profile. Moved on to shading and body reflection.

The green one is considered to be long done. But I agree, its blockiness has bugged me for months after completion. But if I want to fix this, major modifications will have to be done, which I find hard to do with time constraint, so the question of whether this one could be corrected is hard to see.

What can be done for now, however, is to improve the design of the second one. Care to elaborate on the "skewed/squished" presentation?

In the meantime, here's another update. Bumper has been redone, and the width of the wheels is still being hammered out.

The curve may need to be more angular. Reference images seem to indicate this part of the car does not possess such a smooth curve.

Since you were close to identifying the car, here's a reference image of the second. It's a Saab 93 (early split window model) (not to be confused with the more contemporary 9-3):



There's no denying I constructed the first car out of a rectangular block, but I can assure the second one was not created in the same manner. I can craft cars without the aid of skeletal bases, so I decided to move on to simply creating the body in one go.

The problem is that while there are sufficient references, there is still the problem of approximating the appearance of a car in an isometric angle. Perhaps this is why both cars don't look all too right in the eyes of others. Fortunately, for the second car, there is one reference image that is fairly useful:




The grille has been shifted one pixel to the left, but I have trouble understanding the former two comments. Is this regarding the seemingly inconsistent positions of the front fenders' outlines?


Edited by The Mozack - 24 December 2009 at 10:33am