Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars
The Livery Design 1
A course by Davide Virdis , Automotive Media Designer
About the video: The Livery Design 1
Overview
“The car is a blank canvas now. The exciting part has come: I will show you how to design the livery! I will start by adding colour to the model and creating a UV map of the car. ”
In this video lesson Davide Virdis addresses the topic: The Livery Design 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
“ The Livery Design In this lesson, we're getting to the exciting part. Get ready to design your livery. Let's put together our final livery. The first step for this lesson is to understand what a UV map is. A UV map is nothing other than the two-dimensional projection of a 3D model onto an image. If we go and select all the parts that we need to cover with our livery like so, and we then go to UV Editing, we see all the area that we need is selected. Then, over here on the left we see our UV map. The way this UV map works is literally like a map. If you want to place a logo on the roof, le...”
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Course summary for: Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars
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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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