Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars
Technique and formats
A course by Davide Virdis , Automotive Media Designer
About the video: Technique and formats
Overview
“In this lesson, I will explain the technique I use to get to the livery, and I will give you an overview of the formats and conversions needed for the model file to be suitable for the 3D software I use.”
In this video lesson Davide Virdis addresses the topic: Technique and formats, 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
“ Technique and Formats In this lesson, I’ll show you a few techniques to get to our racing livery. Plus, a little overview of the needed formats and conversions. To design a livery and visualise it with a 3D program, there are many techniques. I find it extremely accessible and versatile to use, which is borrowed from the modding community. If you're not familiar with the modding community, there are certain types of video games, Minecraft, for example, that have a big subculture of people that can modify the structure of the game. They can add features, resources, missions, and aspects of...”
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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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Areas
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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