From the course: Blender: Vehicle Modeling
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Gathering reference images - Blender Tutorial
From the course: Blender: Vehicle Modeling
Gathering reference images
- When you model a complex object such as a vehicle, it always helps to have really good reference. So if you can, go find a vehicle that you want to model, and take lots of pictures. Now if you can't do that, there is also a lot of reference available on the internet. So for example if I were to go to Google and type "Aston Martin DB5", you'll see that, well, I get a lot of different images for that. So you can certainly use these as reference, or if you want you can get more specific with reference. Now, I've collected a couple of images here for us, and these are images of the car that we are going to model. So what I want to do is get just a good overview of it, and then also get some good details, like where the fender hits the front end, the bumpers, and so on. So all of this reference will help you when modeling the vehicle. So if you can, go ahead and get reference of the vehicle that you want to model. Another thing that can be helpful is to actually get the blueprints of a…
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