Lesson 7: Applying Construction to Vehicles
5:01 PM, Tuesday January 10th 2023
That was quite a ride! ;)
Some important notes:
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I mostly struggled with the initial boxes, as I've noticed even a tiny misalignment can snowball into huge problems later.
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I found the vehicles with the base box form located somewhere inside the bigger bounding box space, like the old car model and tractor, very difficult. The base box isn't aligned to the wheels so I had very little to go off, as far as locating it in 3D space. What I did is, I tried to project measurements from the bounding box onto the base box, and it ended up being fairly accurate but very messy - I had to start relying on guesswork to not overwhelm myself with construction lines. I also dabbled a bit with the "constructing the base box from the mid plane outwards" method, but it seemed less accurate so I dropped it.
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I switched it up for some of the later vehicles and tried to make them without any rulers and ellipse guides. I think the boat, the car and the garbage truck were done freehand.