Dear Rhinoceros fans!

This is the moment where we, Rhino users are having the great opportunity to get PRO.
This book “3D Car Modeling with Rhinoceros” contains complete step-by-step tutorial on how to model Audi R8 in Rhinoceros NURBS!
Watch these screenshots to see the geometry and full render:

Visit : AK3D.DE website for more information on this PDF and hard cover book tutorial.

POST UPDATE

A few days ago I obtained a download link for this awesome product. Of course I was pretty excited about it, mainly because I am really big Rhinoceros fan and this is absolutely high detailed 3D model in NURBS. As this is the very first super detailed 3D model for Rhino available online for sale (as far as I know), I decided to show You some pictures of this Audi R8 3D model, so if You are unsure about buying this tutorial, or 3D model, You will find your final decision.

As I spoke with André Kutscherauer (Author of this R8 beauty), he told me some details on the background of modeling this super car:

“It began with a knowledge gap on my side. As I´m a 3D artist, I did created a lot of models with polygon techniques. Some years ago I create an Audi with polygons. That was a lot of work but the final model looked not so cool. In this time I saw a lot of Nurbs car models, that impressed me a lot. Especially Thomas Suurland was a real mentor. Since that time I “felt” a knowledge gap of me, when it comes to Nurbs modeling and I always wanted to “close” that. So I started to use Rhinoceros for creating the main models of my free artworks. I could do some basic shapes and Booleans, but that was it. In 2009 I decided to take the next step of Nurbs modeling and aimed for the R8 model. While I modeled it, I ran into countless problems and I spend a lot of time in solving these issues. I searched the internet for help but it was quite difficult to find complete solutions for specific problems. Also I did buy some books, but it was not what I searched for. After finding own ways of modeling techniques, the idea of a complete Nurbs modeling book was born. So I did select my nearly finished R8 Nurbs model file and pressed “delete” to start from scratch again.

With the experience from the first model, I was able to describe every correct working step of the second model in detail. Nevertheless, I had to do every working step at least for three times, to find the optimal solution. This last solution I did write down. So I worked nearly 12 month until the model and the manuscript of the book was finished. Then I started to create some test renders and decided to make a promo video for the book. For this animation I challenged myself with a complete natural environment with 80 Millions trees, but that’s another story. After the animation was finished, it was clear that the frames will render about 4 months on my two 12-core machines. This was just perfect, as I could layout and fine-tune the manuscript and also make the translation.

All in all, the whole process did take nearly two years. I worked every day from 7 pm to 11 pm on this project as my main fulltime job costs my whole daytime. Finally I re-created my website and included an online shop to be able to offer those products.

Currently I´m just happy that I get it finished and that my girlfriend is still here. ;- ) At the moment I have no plans for creating another tutorial like that, but if the interest of the people stays like in the last days, I could get weak….”

Thanks to André for these words!

This is screenshot from my filesystem in my computer :) Finally, R8 in da haus!
3dm file available at ak3d.de. :)

Let’s have a look at the book first:

I ordered the PDF version, because I find it much more practical, better for storing, etc. but I have to say that the magic of the real book must be much better. (For those of you who buy this book, let me know!) and what’s better with my PDF, is that I can use Ctrl+F command to find exact text :)

The book contains 624 pages of step-by step tutorial, you can find every single command used, every single click made by André, so it’s very easy to make this car model even for absolute beginners in Rhinoceros! Awesome, isn’t it?
Here you can find some screenshots from the book:

The book cover. Sexy, isn’t it?

Audi R8 blueprints are included.

You will see entire process, every single click and mouse movement. In this picture you can see absolute precise curves adjustment.

Learn how to make surfaces pretty and smooth. Make your model perfect!

Every single surface is explained in a few steps to obtain the best result.

Sometimes it’s not complicated to make a model… the art is in making it really professionally.

This part shows you how to make the front mask of the car.

Modeling of the back part

Side mirror is as detailed as the rest of the model.

Extracting the R8 sign out of the photo.

One of the last objects is the wheel…

… pretty detailed as well!

So this is it. If you are still considering buying this book and 3D model, have a look at how it looks like in Rhinoceros 5 live viewport:

What do you think now, are you going to give a chance to NURBS? If so, start right HERE. :)

This is AUDI’s new commercial. You can see some screenshots here:

Agency: Adamsson Appelfeldt Advertising
Production Company: Hobby Factory
Animation: Magoo 3D Studios

Hey! Check this ad out :) very short CG advertisement – compositing cars and horse powers fights together one against the others – in the style of big historic cinema movies.

Agency: Doner Advertising, Southfield
Group Creative Director: George Levy
Art Director: Greg Sancricca
Executive Producer: Brian Dooley
Directior of Broadcast Production: Sheldon Cohn
Production Company: Aero Film, Santa Monica
Director: Klaus Obermeyer
Executive Producer: Lance O’Connor
Associate Producer: Liz Welonek

Head of Production: Rob Helphand
Editorial: Aero Digital, Santa Monica
Editor: Barnett Kiel
Visual EFX: Speedshape, Venice
Executive Producer: Carl Seibert
VFX Producer: Jamison Huber
VFX Supervisor: Robert Nederhorst
Creative Director: John Allardice
CG supervisors: Scott Tessier, Alex Scollay
3D Artists: Nathan Millsap, Will johnson, Marko Mandaric, Torbjorn Ollson, Alex Mcleod, Hagen Gilbert

Compositors: Dag Ivarsoy, Brady Doyle, Will Johnson, Marc Rienzo
Telecine: Company 3, Santa Monica
Sound Design: 740 Sound Design, Santa Monica, ca
Sound Designer: David Barnaby
Executive Producer: Scott Ganary
Music: Emoto Music, Santa Monica

This new tutorial contains modeling, lighting and post-production process of  the Batmobile.

Autor: Javier Fernández Alegre from Espacio continuo studio.

Visit CGArena to see full tutorial.

Presentation video for concept vehicle “Xscape”.
Direction, audio editing, animation, rendering, and video editing by Ivan Ladović.

Vehicle design and modeling by Shengjie Wang.

This is the latest TV commercial from Saab, part of the “Anything but ordinary” campaign to launch the new Saab 9-5.

Someon Patarozliev started modeling this car for another scene and it was supposed to be just a low-poly half-finished model. The whole process took about 18-20 days from start to finish. There weren’t any blueprints available for this model at that time so he mostly used references and blueprints from a similar models. Original post here: link

Rhinoceros is very popular 3D modelling software used for great NURBS modelling experience. We really recommend that!