AndyFoden- 3D Environment - futuristic racing track

For my environment, I'm going to for a futuristic bike racing track. I was inspired by this crazy bike thing, which I thought was pretty cool.



I drew out what I wanted on paper, scanned it in, and drew over it in photoshop.



I'm thinking of having the race track closer to the planet, maybe in a city; and I want lamps, bridges, sponsor logos and other bikes on the race track. The yellow lines are meant to be lines of lights in the floor of the track. I'd like to add in more sections of track too in other parts.

I started modelling my bike from a cuboid, which will have either spherical wheels or extremely wide tires, in Cinema4D.

the front of the bike is to the left of the picture, and it will have a glass cockpit, instead of being open like a normal bike, because I want it to look streamlined, futuristic and really fast.





Here's a little video of the bike spinning round, so that you can get a decent idea of what it looks like.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3061/preview.mp4

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niceeee, is this just the bodywork? looks very much like wipeout atm and are u still keeping the ball thing underneath it as the wheels? lol

Yep, just the body work so far. I quite like the ball wheels, but I might just have chunky wheels instead because I like those better I think.

It's taking shape, can't wait to see it in more detail

I've been adding a socket sort of thing to hold the back wheel in place...





...and some suspension for the front wheel.

waaaaaaaa foden, looks good

im liking what you have done with the suspension, helix spline was it?

yep, it did have a crazy translucent shell and was meant to go on the back wheel bit, but I gave up because it was a nightmare lol.

thats just the texturing part foden, im sure that would look good though

im gettin the hang of cinema 4d alot now, come sit over by me 2moro if bishop aint in and ill help you out

The springs were annoying me and were slowing everything down so I got rid of them. I'll stick something in there later.

I've added a fin at the back and a place for the rider to sit. The window is small, so, I'm gonna say it's a massive bike, like fighter jet size.







I made it red like kaneda's bike off akira cos I thought it looked cool.

Love the wipeout feel to it mate

I've added more to the front of the bike, with some headlights either side, behind the front wheel.

haha thats lookin really good foden, its starting to take its shape

So this is how it's looking at the moment.

I've got a new fighter plane sort of nose on it, new longer cockpit, some suspension, a smaller front wheel and an air grill.

The paint is red again but darker and with a little reflection, and I've bump mapped the wheels to make them look rubbery.

Still need some exhaust pipes, and to connect the front wheel to the body.

I've started to properly model the front axle sort of thing, I've messed around with the headlights, and I've put on indicators and brake lights on the front and back.





I wanna stick decals and stickers on it like kaneda's bike. What else can I stick on to it before I move on to actual environment modelling?

Wow.
Looks ro real =]

This the sort of background I'm going for, because the original idea was rubbishand would look boring.



http://www.2shared.com/file/12301972/9a794a6d/environment.html

looking good foden , love the bike besides it sud be blue :3, race track design looks kl , cant wait to see it finished

Here's what I have so far and I'll try and make it look a little like this....

Looking good up to now mr foden

Liking the building thing you've added (:

tar burrows



This is how it's looking at the moment.

I made the arches smaller on the building on the right because I think it was lacking scale.

I've added more buildings, and an elevated platform sort of thing for the buildings to go on.

The first buildings on the left need changing so I've started doing those on another file which I'll put in there.

and here's the new building to replace the one on the left.

This is how it's looking at the moment. I've added some more buildings and I've changed the wall on the left. I'm going to widen the gap between the buildings and then I'll stick my race track down the middle of them.

I've added in the track, which I'll put more details, like lights and sponser logos and stuff onto, and the bike. I'll stick more bikes in and more buildings, and stick in some bridges and maybe some airships in the sky, maybe a moon aswell.

great as usual Foden... needs textures on the buildings and a sky?

It does indeed sean, but I'll add those last because it's pretty laggy as it is at the moment. :P



I've taken the bikes out for the time being because the slowdown was too much to work with.

I've gotten rid of the sunlights too because they didn't look good at all.

I've made myself some super-highways to go across the gap, and spectator stands underneath the closest one.



That's what it looks like up close. I'll be putting more roads in and some tunnels dug through the buildings for them to pass through.

I want to stick some suspension beams and stuff on the track in the background so it doesn't look like it's just floating up there on it's own; and some spectator bridges attached to the track itself.

I might everything on the right hand side and stick some gardens and buildings on the top.