AEC Routemaster Double decker

[ROUBAL]

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/45472995[/vimeo]

AEC Routemaster double decker - This is a modelling work in progress.

Modelled in Blender. Rendered with Octane. The model currently requires 537 MB of VRAM in Octane in 1280x720, and 1207MB in 8000x4500.
It is made of 2862056 triangles.

It is a short preview of my current modelling work. I still have to model the interior (seats, poles, lights and rear stairs) and add advertising billboards and other textures (stickers with technical informations).

Modelled only from photos. Acurate proportions are very difficult to evaluate and some details will be corrected later when I will have more informations.

I wanted to purchase a scale model to take acurate measures, but the rare available models at interesting scale (1/24) are very expensives (around 200 Euros). I will try to purchase a smaller and cheaper one if necessary.

I love british architecture and cars. I plan to model also the classical London taxi LTI-Austin FX4, and Big Ben tower and a part of the parliament building.

The goal is to create some typical London scenes from various well known points of view.

I am french, and I have never been in England, so I have to study hundreds of photos on the web for this project.

This will be a sequel to this serie :

http://3d-synthesis.com/47-BlendertonHotel.html

You can download the video in better resolution here (QuickTime - 241MB) :

http://3d-synthesis.com/movies/Routemaster_01.mov

[GeoPappas]

Awesome work.

...Big Ben tower...

They recently renamed Big Ben to the Elizabeth Tower.

[ROUBAL]

Thank you ! They have renamed the tower, but maybe the bell has kept its nickname ?

[ROUBAL]

Some new images of my current work. I have created most of the external textures, except the front and rear lamps textures, billboards and advertizing panels.

I am still modelling, and doing it only using photos as references is long and hard. The fact that this kind of vehicle is totally assymetrical doesn't help.

I will probably have to buy a scale model to check some proportions, because a weird trouble with the depth of the rear staircase and some clues in front view lead me to think that my model is not wide enough.

I still have to model the passengers seats, the upper floor, poles and internal lamps.

Currently, I use the Turbulence procedural texture for the bump of the bus body, but it is really not realistic. A good Cloud texture is actually missing in Octane. For final renders, I will appy the subsurfacing modifier, create a Vertex group to limit the influence of the displacement to where it is necessary, and use actual displacement in Blender, driven by a Cloud texture.

More images here :

http://3d-synthesis.com/52-AEC-Routemaster.html

[ROUBAL]

Hello, I have updated the page of my current WIP. More textures, and corrected details and proportions. Still not perfect, but much closer to the actual dimensions.

http://3d-synthesis.com/52-AEC-Routemaster.html

I still have to model the seats, poles and internal lights, and add a texture to the glass of the front lamps and signals.

[pid18000]

awesome mod and render^^

do you have an idea about the environnment yet ?

[ROUBAL]

Yes, I will also model a LTI Austin FX4 taxi, and create some scenes with a typical Londonian background : Bridge and Elisabeth Tower, and some street views with Victorian architecture, like in my previous scene below :

http://3d-synthesis.com/47-BlendertonHotel.html

In fact, it is a intended as a sequel of this project. I will probably re-use the K6 phone booth and mail box.

[ROUBAL]

Hello, I am working hard on my bus model, and it isalmost finished except some little details in driver cabin.

External views are not updated on the page, but you will find several images of the interior. I have made some interesting renders with a photo environment, but as I don't own the rights for the photo, I can't show it here.

Later, the envionment will be all 3D.

More images here :

http://3d-synthesis.com/52-AEC-Routemaster.html

Currently, the model is made of 4.7 Millions of triangles and weights 975 MB in Octane.It is around 1/3 of my available VRAM. For external views, I will delete some internal stuff to save ressources.

On the opposite, for internal renders, with a pre-rendered environment, I will increase the subdivision level on some objects that could show somes angles in close up.

[ROUBAL]

Now, with the conductor and his Gibson A14 ticket machine, and the driver.

Hairs are a problem. I will try with alpha mapper hair. I already tried with hair made for an other character, but they don't match.

[mib2berlin]

Hi, I like it very much.
The guy looks like a Supermarionation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWLvDw4 ... re=related

Cherrs, mib.