Modeling tires will use pretty much the same technique except the outer cage. It is a very nice wheel model by Malcolm and distributed under CC-BY license so we can use it without any issue. And many people avoid modeling tires as you can find many free tires model on internet. Modeling tire may take another long tutorial. Screenshot shows distribution of edges according to curves of body.Īdd mirror modifier above sub-surf modifier, choose merge and clipping. Go in modifier panel and add sub-surf modifier. To exclude parts like doors body, select vertices and hit P and choose selection to make them separate object.Īfter doing those steps, you will have something like image below. Use same technique on rear side of the car to create holes for headlights and other design.Īdd extra edges and drag them according to blueprint for creating curves. Extrude again and drag them on z axis to create a hole. Select 6 faces around the hole we want on front part part of the body.Įxtrude and scale them down. Set extruded edges according to blueprints from top view. Go in front view and drag those vertices according to background image. You can use circular select tool by pressing C key to select multiple vertices. Select upper edge and extrude it according to the image.Įxtrude it couple more time and select the lower part shown below. Select vertices you want to connect and hit Alt+M to merge them. Select top vertices by right clicking and hit E to extrude them few times and set them according to image below.Įxtrude 2 edges from rear side like image below:Įxtrude couple of time and connect it with front side.

Go in edit mode by pressing TAB and set it according to image. Hit SHIFT+A and add in a plane in front view, Open tool panel by T and check align to view. Steps to creating the image to be written here. Choose axis to Front, Set X Y and size property according to the image below to centre the front view.Īdd same image one more time, set it to right view and copy the settings according to image. You can convert it to jpeg and png image by simple editing program like MS Paint. Here is one nice image to use: lotus-elise-old.gif. Click Add image button and in blue print image of lotus elise you can find from google. Hit N to open up property panel and check background images. You can toggle between ortho and perspective view with 5 number key. Go in front ortho view by hitting 1 on keyboard. Modeling and Rendering Lotus Elise Car Resources Let’s see what you will be creating in this tutorial.

Blender car modeling tutorial