Re: 3D Modeler Interested in Packards
Posted by Darrell Leland On 2010/11/20 0:49:16
Thanks a lot guys. I'll probably be starting a bit later in the year after the semester ends. Right now things are pretty crazy. It's nice to get a warm welcome. I've looked into some other car groups and kind of gotten the cold shoulder, though I won't mention any (yuppie BMW fans) by name.
This isn't a Packard, obviously. I was fooling around with some preliminary ideas for a similar car of my own design, tennatively called the Verna 6. I just keep referencing Packard though, so I finally decided to start with that. It's surprisingly difficult to get this right. Just the grille took hours of fussing to get what I wanted. I'm using a program called Maya 8.5 and a technique called NURBs modeling if that means anything. As you can see I'm just getting started with it.
Still looking into getting a Packard for myself one of these days when the economy turns around. There was actually a very nice 1956 Patrician for sale at a local Nissan dealer's used car lot a while back that I was just dying to get. There's also a "Pregnant Elephant" style, a 1948 Custom 8 I think, down the street that's been sitting there for years. One of these days I might go over and ask if the guy's willing to sell it.
I'll look at the information you suggest. Again, thanks a lot!
Andacar
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This isn't a Packard, obviously. I was fooling around with some preliminary ideas for a similar car of my own design, tennatively called the Verna 6. I just keep referencing Packard though, so I finally decided to start with that. It's surprisingly difficult to get this right. Just the grille took hours of fussing to get what I wanted. I'm using a program called Maya 8.5 and a technique called NURBs modeling if that means anything. As you can see I'm just getting started with it.
Still looking into getting a Packard for myself one of these days when the economy turns around. There was actually a very nice 1956 Patrician for sale at a local Nissan dealer's used car lot a while back that I was just dying to get. There's also a "Pregnant Elephant" style, a 1948 Custom 8 I think, down the street that's been sitting there for years. One of these days I might go over and ask if the guy's willing to sell it.
I'll look at the information you suggest. Again, thanks a lot!
Andacar
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