affinity designer Alfa Romeo 8C 2900

[VectorVonDoom]

1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900, the Mille Miglia winner that year with its sister car finishing in second place. My last vector one for this year. 

 

[JohnSnr]

Great. It looks like you could pick it up and play with it.

[uneMule]

Excellent !

[jjvirtual3d]

Amazing Job. 

[MattP]

Just AWESOME!

[buschbrand]

crazily good! You nailed it, again.

[VectorVonDoom]

Thanks. It looked fairly straightforward but I underestimated all the little details that often get hidden when shrinking it down to post  here.

[pruus]

This car nailed it! Great work, don’t let it be your last work.

[Jonopen]

Excellent. I particularly like the contrast between the matt leather seats and the glossy metal.

[Alex M]

Incredible, unbelievably detailed works (going through all your topics now). That is a true craftsmanship, great inspiration and huge motivation. Thank you very much, sir, for sharing with us.

[VectorVonDoom]

Thanks. As with every style not everyone likes it but if you do and it gives you some inspiration or motivation to try it yourself, or possibly take things to the next step detail wise, then that's good.

[v_kyr]

As always stunning work!

[sacboi]

Cool automotive piece, it's top down orthographic aspect 'drone's-eye-view' render style, at least for me is distinctive. Can't say I've even come across in a 3D CGI asset setting over on the ArtStation portfolio platform as a casual lurker and in particular, also liking the finesse involved creating detail for those seats, generating an appearance of the actual material they're typically crafted from.  

[VectorVonDoom]

Thanks. There aren’t too many references taken from that viewpoint which, I assume, is part of the reason you don’t see it often in 2d work.  But if you can find then it works well on some cars whereas it’s quite a boring view on others.

[TimTab]

Where can you find good source material for exquisite cars to produce an excellent rendering such as this? Are there sites where you can pay for higher rez pictures with greater detail? As a newbie to this app would this all be vector? If all vector when you increase the size of the render it still maintains it's resolution quality as I understand it.

[VectorVonDoom]

I usually start of with a search engine, I use startpage.com, and go for the highest resolution I can find. Perhaps start with 40mp and go down if I can’t find anything, but not too low res. There may be paid for sites with higher res photos but I’ve not noticed any. I don’t do anything modern but if you do then it’s likely to be easier finding hi-res photos than if it’s vintage. However sometimes high res have just been enlarged so when you look carefully it’s quite blocky and noisy, which you don’t really want if you can help it.

Finding a decent reference, whilst not always easy, is easy compared to actually doing it but that’s what practice is for and obviously depends on the style you want to go for.

Always look at a reference and try and spot things that are going to be problematic, presuming you’re going for photorealism. Sometimes when you think about it you realise it’s just going to be too much work (although sometimes it ends up being anyway!)

Yes, I only do vector although some do mix vector and raster but to me you either do one or the other. That is the advantage of vector, you can increase the size without it going blocky/ blurry but the more detail you put in the better it will look if you increase it by a lot especially looking close up. I usually work at A1 which is likely larger than you’d print it anyway.

 

[VectorWhiz]

Absolutely superb design! This is getting the most out of what Designer's functionality offers.

[TimTab]

I would like to share these two pictures with a friend on Facebook but first I need your permission of course and will understand completely of the answer is no.

[VectorVonDoom]

1 minute ago, TimTab said:

I would like to share these two pictures with a friend on Facebook but first I need your permission of course and will understand completely of the answer is no.

1 minute ago, TimTab said:

 

That’s fine.