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DuveDec bus

by Dutch3DMaster
Saturday, February 13, 2010

After having been away from a 3D related forum for a while I decided to join CG-nation.com.


I'm still trying to figure out how stuff works around here, I was unable to load the WIP images by using the interface of the site, so I'll load them from the webspace from my ISP.


This is one of the buses a transport company in my country used to drive around with, made according to French design (by a company called DuveDec).

There still are some of these driving around, but most of them have been replaced with newer buses.

I had to guess all the sizes and distances, I made the thing 10 cm's to small at first because it looked better, but had to turn it back to 250 cm's width a little later in the design process.

I'm happy with how it turned out, even though the driver's seat and dashboard and everything that belongs there is not finished because photo's of that particular part are scarce.

 

The start

 

After "mirror-surgery" of the outer shell, the interior was built

 

The hatches in the "ceiling"

 

The door mechanism of the back doors

 

I decided to animate the front doors a while ago, mainly because I was a little bored, I used the raytracer from 0.97d for this.

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hihosilver

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Welcome back!  It's been too long!

As always the modeling is solid, and very exact (I'm always amazed by the time you take to make the measurements so exact!)

Still on buses of course.  Being off the forum scene does that mean you've been off the art scene as well? Or is this just the most recent piece?

Again, welcome back!

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I remember you from the old forums!

 

really nice attention to detail :)


 

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Welcome back!

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hihosilver wrote:

Welcome back!  It's been too long!

As always the modeling is solid, and very exact (I'm always amazed by the time you take to make the measurements so exact!)

Still on buses of course.  Being off the forum scene does that mean you've been off the art scene as well? Or is this just the most recent piece?

Again, welcome back!

 

Thank you Hihosilver.

Well, during my time with my DuveDec model I've been off the art part of Anim8or for a while, but I'm now thinking up stuff that looks nice with the raytracer of Anim8or (like the Ubuntu backgrounds).

This is mainly just the most recent piece.

*Now I only need to find out how to add more images to this post :-).