What's up everybody. Just thought I'd start up some suggestions for December's topic. There's a pretty extensive nurbs modelling tutorial floating around on how to build a car. I thought maybe we...

Forgot to add my info:
Version: Maya 4.0
Time Spent: About 16 days
Entry Type: Newbie
Render time: About 1 minute for each angle
Textures: All home made

Well here it is. Learned alot of new stuff doing this competition, can't wait till next month so we can learn some more. See you.

Got some last minute details, then I'll make a final image. Can't wait to see everyone's finals.

I have a lambert material with a diffuse map and a bit map already down for the hull of a ship. I want to project files on top of that texture to lay down painted numbers, etc. How can I do that?...

I know you're tired of seeing this, but here you go anyway. I want to put displacement maps?? to add metal plating without having to model the cracks. Any tips on those or a better method would be...

Well, I've got some detail starting up, but I think I'll have to go straight to materials because of time constraints. See you tomorrow gang.

Well here I am again. Good call on the legs. I got so worried about the body, I forgot to make sure it was in proportion with what was already built. I went ahead and beefed them up and added the...

Howdy. Well I'm in Kansas drinkin' some wine and doin' some 3D. Got a little update on my grasshopper.
Just wanted to compliment everyone on this months great competition.
Undseth, your model is...

Hi everybody. Every once in a while during modeling, I'll do something (it varies) to one of my polys and it gets dark spots on it. Check out the pic to see what I mean. Am I doing something wrong or...