Completed Motorbike

For the past week I have been adding finishing touches to the Motorbike and it's Motorcyclist. I wanted the motorbike to resemble a typical world war II style bike, with over fenders on the wheels and a 'rusty' finish. I created the rust material which I used for most of the bikes parts and the 'black' material for the tyres and seat using Photoshop. Any part of the bike that was grey I just changed the colour of the object in Studio Max.

I made the light on the front of the bike reflective and bright to replicate glass and as if the light was switched on. I also added a camouflage material to the cyclist and helmet so that he appeared as a soldier of war.

Here are some screenshots.

This is the material I used for the camouflage -
http://www.droidforums.net/gallery/data/518/camo.jpg

Motorbike Inspiration

It took some time to figure out what a motorbike included within the framework, for example the engine, petrol tank and much more. I needed to find images to look at so that I could then understand what all these parts looked like and then add them to my model. I found a few images online when I researched World War II Motorbike that really helped with the asthetics of my production.

Creating The Motorbike

As I previously stated, I was given the task of creating 2 different models for our group; an Aircraft Carrier and a Motorbike.

I began modelling the Motorbike by creating the wheels so that I could use them as reference points to create the rest of the bike. I will be making the majority of the motorbike out of individual objects to replicate a realistic one.

Over the following week I will be finishing the motorbike so that I can then spend the next week creating the motorcyclist riding the bike and then add materials to the model.

Completed Aircraft Carrier

The Finished Article.
After a lot of fiddling and manouvering many different aspects of the model, the aircraft carrier is complete.

The last few days have involved adding the finishing touches to the model including the watch tower and all of the aerials/posts/plane hangers on the boat.

The part of the creation that took the longest time was the shaping of the boat, which involved alot of moving vertexs to get the right curve to the base of the boat.

I'm excited to have finally finished my model and am happy with the result. Now is the task of creating my motorbike and then onwards to animating these in the scenary we will create.