Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars
Putting the Car Together 1
A course by Davide Virdis , Automotive Media Designer
About the video: Putting the Car Together 1
Overview
“Now that the file is set up and ready to go, I will put the car together and design the basic materials (rubber, carbon fibre, aluminium, and so on).”
In this video lesson Davide Virdis addresses the topic: Putting the Car Together 1, 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
“ Putting the Car Together In this lesson, we will put the car together and we'll start designing the basic material for it. Let's get back to it and let's start designing the first basic materials. We find ourselves with our two basic models, the basic car and the wheel. Now, we'll put these two together and we'll stance the car. The stance is the ratio between how tall it is from the ground and how the wheels are put inside the arches. We'll look at that. We go on the side view, select the Wheel, and we start placing it by the wheel arch. As you can see, the wheel is a bit small, so we ta...”
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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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