Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars
The Mood Board: The First Testing Laps
A course by Davide Virdis , Automotive Media Designer
About the video: The Mood Board: The First Testing Laps
Overview
“Once you have understood the direction you would like to take, let's start getting creative! You will learn how a mood board can really help with your ideas. ”
In this video lesson Davide Virdis addresses the topic: The Mood Board: The First Testing Laps, which is part of the Domestika online course: Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars. Learn to design and render livery for custom racing cars in Blender and bring them to life with eye-catching decals in Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Mood Board: The First Testing Laps In this lesson, I will show you how a mood board can help with your creative process. What I have done here is having a mood board that can provide us with a panoramic of what we said in the previous lesson. Here, you have a bit of a mashup of American liveries, European liveries, and Japanese liveries. This should help you to understand how logos are placed, for example, and how colour is used. For example, if you see here and here, usually tyre brands are placed on the wheel arches. Dunlop there and there. This should give you an idea of the direct...”
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Course summary for: Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars
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Category
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3D, 3D Modeling

Davide Virdis
A course by Davide Virdis
Davide Virdis is a classic car enthusiast and automotive media designer from Genoa, Italy. He specializes in creating liveries, which consists of designing the visual aspect of a racing car.
He helped manage the social media of Maserati’s Fuoriserie customisation program and collaborated in the design of McLaren's F1 livery at Abu Dhabi. He currently works for a variety of clients, including a renown design studio from Milan, where he does content creation. Alongside that, he also helps small car companies and racing teams to visualize their vehicles and design their liveries.
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