Cars Toyota AE86

[Kyuubeey]

Quarter, light profile a bit better. Now when it's still lowpoly is the time to do this stuff IMO.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Looks like the arches are more off than anything. Ignore the bumper, it's a Kouki bumper, so of course it's off.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Bunch of tweaks to bumper, hatch, quarter shapes. I wish I had some good side and front shots of the Zenki bumper, quite difficult this one. I'll settle for a little bit inaccurate bumper if the frame is right, at least.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Need to still figure out exactly how the indent is on the front part of the door, and how it is on the rear windows.

Don't think I've shown wires yet, so:

Gaining an understanding now. The rear-lower part should merge smoothly into the lower part.

A little bit challenging because it's not a simple surface form, but I can manage it. Just need more and more ref and looking at it. The reason I'm doing under the door so detailed and not just putting the liner directly is because I want to confirm it makes sense. I'll do it for the rest of the windows and the trunk, too.

EDIT: I've got it now. Now to make the inside form more accurate, not like it matters tho. But I want to.

EDIT: Rear area as well. I'll keep these simple for now so they don't really influence much if I have to modify the outside shape. It's more to help me logically fit it all together right now. I might go and model some parts more detailed later, if they will show in the stripped interior.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Wow, that's cool, I never knew you can see the frame from the side window! I was about to pull my hair out because it looked like it wasn't lining up! Details, details...

 

[Kyuubeey]

Anyone who knows how I do physics saw this coming. Now when the outside looks pretty good, I'm gonna be modeling (Roughly) the frame under to make sure everything can logically fit in place and to assist in the future. No way in hell am I gonna make it truly accurate, with all the small indents and whatever, but at least the outside is very useful.

EDIT: Was a good move to model that frame. Now the license plate and light area is *much* better.

A bit off still, but this is really a huge help. I'll need to research what differences there are between frames, because I'm *almost* sure that I'm seeing some pics with a bit different profile for some shapes. I don't know why. Maybe a Zenki/Kouki thing? Did the amount the things under the rear lights stick out change over the years/from model to model?

 

[Kyuubeey]

Bunch of changes to the rear area. Much better now; but still off. Next step will be to take a good look at the front; light height and profile is still off a bit.

Handle and indent is just a quick low-poly thing for now, more as a visual guide. It's overall a bit too small I think.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Fixed front lights form a bit and had to make a pretty big change to the side trim line, added mirrors just as a guide for now and corrected rear frame and lights.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Not the best photomatch but it gives some direction.

EDIT:

I'm willing to believe the lights and bonnetline are too low. It looks like it from side-on shots. So I'll fix that and then come back.

EDIT 2:

Yeah.

EDIT 3:

Yeah boi.

Soon going to need to find more angles/improve accuracy of this match, but this is enough to get it kinda close.

EDIT 4:

Bunch of corrections to the side and arches. Still needs more but at least now it's somewhat close.

 

[Nedddo]

It is fun to see all of these matchings. Especially in Blender because its matching technique isnt easy.

 

[Kyuubeey]

It is fun to see all of these matchings. Especially in Blender because its matching technique isnt easy.

I use fspy and the Blender plugin. I try my best to get a match, then I export the camera to Blender and continue there if it's close.

I'm not the best as it, so it doesn't really come out exact, but I try. It's better than just completely eyeballing everything.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Whole bunch of changes today. Lots of changes to the front and arches and sides.

Put in some cuts to the lights just for this picture, to get an idea of how it might look final. The lights match up in photomatching, but I can't help but feel they look too tall. I'll need to compare more.

Bonnet and quarter are also shaping up very well.

Please, if someone has some good side-on shots of STOCK BODY AE86's especially the early ones with these harsher arches, please, throw them my way. I'm doing small tweaks to the arch shape all the time. Front is probably more off than rear.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Corrected a whole bunch of things, too many to list. Namely changed angle of the lower line of the rear window, changed angle of the lower part of the door, changed forms in front of the rear arch etc.

MUCH better now, incredible improvement. Not super painful either due to low poly.

 

[Alex V.]

Hope you do as many variations as you can (Zenki bumper/grille, Euro rear lights, Coupe...)
Wish I still had mine but here are some pictures I found from my car back in the day

 

[Kyuubeey]

Hope you do as many variations as you can (Zenki bumper/grille, Euro rear lights, Coupe...)
Wish I still had mine but here are some pictures I found from my car back in the day

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I've never finished a car mesh, so my goal is to just work on the JDM Levin every day I can. I would *like* to make everything; Zenki, Kouki, Trueno, US, Europe, but well, there are human limits too.

 

[Alex V.]

You're doing A LOT better than me
The corner blinkers you see on those photos are Zenki btw, and your bumper has the Zenki repeaters as well.

 

[Ben O'Bro]

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Corrected a whole bunch of things, too many to list. Namely changed angle of the lower line of the rear window, changed angle of the lower part of the door, changed forms in front of the rear arch etc.

MUCH better now, incredible improvement. Not super painful either due to low poly.

dude you're nailing it
congrats on the modeling progress
so far looking really good !

 

[Kyuubeey]

dude you're nailing it
congrats on the modeling progress
so far looking really good !

Thanks, I try. Not sure how good modeling this actually is, but everyone says it's good and I'm modeling economically, so...

We will see how it turns out.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Zenki trim detail. I'm pretty sure it's actually grafted into the frame. Really makes the car look more complete.

 

[Kyuubeey]

Pretty big remodel of the rear quarter and part of the front.

Next up is to check door cutout angles and correlate it to the arches. Bumpers are still cursed, and I removed the indent from the rear one for ease of use.