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another firebird attempt..
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Very observant of you. I only have a side image of the car. I can't find a blueprint of an earlier model. I can find a 1979 all day but I want an early 70's model. So yes, most of it was done is the "side" view. One of these days I'll post a decent model..lol. Next to making most parts out of nurbs how do I stop getting such rigid lines? Thanks for the input by the way.The lines on it are pretty rigid, like it was modeled in a side view only. I remember Acid was doing some work on a car somewhat recently in the wip section, you could take a look at that. The texture on your backdrop is very low resolution, too low for this shot. And I can't really make out what's going on with the lights, they're not placed very practically(or casting shadows). But I wouldn't worry about any of that til the car modeling is done, it's tempting but you might be shooting yourself in the foot otherwise.
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You have uncompleted sections which are heavy on geo, try to avoid this, dont worry I made the same errors LOL. Now you have some images to import into Maya it will be a hell of a lot easier. Trying to model with just 1 view is bloody hard. Get plenty of photos from Google as image refs are only good to a certain point.
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https://www.the-blueprints.com/module...4319-10008.jpg
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round three..
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link for some good refs
https://www.motorera.com/firebird/firebird70.htm
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As for the renders of your WIPS in colour etc...I used to do that all the time as it was fun! BUT a very wise woman berated me for this and taught me the ways of the WIP. Keep it as I have it in my scene, plain old grey for now. Save out as PNG and you can then whack a black backdrop, though I think you can do this in the environment. This is just a roughy to help you along mate.
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