This guide was made for entry: Police Car In Contest: lego
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Modelled the basic lego brick using a polygon cube and 6 cylinders
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Started modelling by following step one of instructions and duplicating bricks
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Continued duplicating bricks and placing them.
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Created wheel wells out of polygon pipes.
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Created doors out of 2 polygon cubes and 2 polygon cylinders
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Created steering wheel and column - 1 poly cylinder deformed into a cone, 1 poly cube and a poly torus.
Seat created with a cylinder and an extruded cube.
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Created windows from an extruded cube.
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Wheels created out of poly pipe extruded and cylinders.
Started adding textures.
Glass used Mental Ray Mia_Material - Set on solid glass preset
Body used Mental Ray Mia_Material - Set on glossy plastic preset.
Lights - Glass texture surface - with Mental Ray Mib_Illum_Blinn underneath.
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Lighting added using a sphere mapped with a surface shader. - The HDR map used on the surface shader was one that is on a Digital Tutors tutorial disk that I own.
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Final rendering and finding the right camera angles.
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Adding the background and scenery.
Trees created by creatively extruding a cylinder.