Creating a Next-Gen Video Game Hot Rod: the Complete Workflow – Day 3

Laurens Corijn on Feb 18th 2010 with 35 comments

Ever wanted to know how the artists create those amazing cars for AAA video game titles? Well here’s your chance to find out. In this incredible CGTuts+ exclusive tutorial series, you will follow professional CG artist and teacher Laurens Corijn as he creates a high quality, next-gen, normal mapped Hot Rod for realtime use.

This tutorial is Day 3 in a series – Go to Day 1, Day 2, or Day 4

In the series’ biggest part yet, we’ll be diving straight into highpoly modeling with the most challenging part of the car, the gigantic, supercharged Hemi 540 engine and its transmission! Through this, you will learn that modeling something as complex as an engine is not an impossible task!

This tutorial can be followed as part of the larger series, but it can also be viewed as a standalone tutorial for creating an impressive highpoly engine block. It even includes a bonus video that explains how to make a nice render setup for this sort of highpoly mechanical work!!

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Tutorial Details

  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Techniques Covered:High poly technical modeling
  • Completion Time: 6+ hours
  • Software/ Hardware Requirements: 3D application capable of low and high poly modeling; Dual core PC and recent (GeForce 8 level) graphics card

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    Video 3

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    By Laurens Corijn

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    I'm Laurens Corijn, a recent Digital Arts & Entertainment graduate from Belgium. I've been doing CG for 4 years now, mainly focusing on mechanical subjects such as vehicles. I equally enjoy working on high-end rendering, and optimized, real-time, video game art. Besides doing CG, I like to spend my time listening to music, and riding and maintaining my motorcycle. My website can be found at: laurenscorijn.com.  

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    Discussion 35 Comments

    1. Gene Zelenkov says:
      February 18, 2010 at 3:20 am

      Nice man! Good stuff! I’m learning a lot. Thanks man. Guess max isn’t as bad. But its still a pain when your transitioning from maya.

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    2. sommergemuese says:
      February 18, 2010 at 3:42 am

      Nice, I’m the first

      BTW best Tutorial Serien on CG tuts+!

      Reply
    3. RappyBMX says:
      February 18, 2010 at 4:14 am

      Best tutorial around here :D thanks

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    4. sami says:
      February 18, 2010 at 5:23 am

      Great job..thanks..

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    5. Teo says:
      February 18, 2010 at 5:53 am

      It’s nice to see a Gnomon-style quality tutorial like this! Thank you very much!

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    6. Teo says:
      February 18, 2010 at 5:55 am

      It’s nice to see a Gnomon-style quality tutorial like this one! Thank you very much!

      Reply
    7. LuiSerrano says:
      February 18, 2010 at 10:03 am

      wow… amazing tutorial series, thanks very mach bro.

      PD: downloading :D

      Reply
    8. Luis says:
      February 18, 2010 at 10:46 am

      Thank you for this series of tutorials. So good as those of payment and thanks to cgtuts + for being free. Gracias desde España!!!

      Reply
    9. Matthias says:
      February 18, 2010 at 12:14 pm

      Insane Tutorial!
      LOVE IT!

      Reply
    10. Paul says:
      February 18, 2010 at 6:50 pm

      Thankyou so much for the tutorials Laurens, i use to own a t bucket just like this when i was much younger lol!
      I have been wanting to model a “t” for a long time, now i can at least pretend i still own one.
      By the way its the best car i ever owned i had so much fun with it.
      Once again thanks so much for showing us all how its done

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    11. Mad Violinist says:
      February 19, 2010 at 12:59 am

      Thanks so much for taking the time to make these outstanding tutorials! I have been using your workflow from these videos to build a steam train. :)

      Reply
    12. apg51sa says:
      February 19, 2010 at 2:39 pm

      Excellent tutor thanks for the work

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    13. Rune Egeland says:
      February 19, 2010 at 2:41 pm

      wow… this is really good! Thanks allot for this, can’t wait for the rest of it!

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    14. carmenlyra says:
      February 19, 2010 at 5:38 pm

      thanks for your time, your work, and for a wonderful tutorial

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    15. Afrostie says:
      February 20, 2010 at 2:52 pm

      Love this tutorial. Followed it all the way so far and will finish it to the end. Amazing work! hope to see more from you

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    16. Mark Bos says:
      February 20, 2010 at 4:34 pm

      3 words. U are INSANE!!!!!!!!

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    17. Russ says:
      February 25, 2010 at 3:14 am

      DUDE…. YOU ARE CRAZY GOOD!!!!!! omg, i wish i could do that… you are the man!! :) :) :)

      Thanks for this man

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    18. kid says:
      March 3, 2010 at 1:49 pm

      Thanks for the tutorial. I dont know if I missed it but did you use any normal mapping in these tutorials?

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    19. Laurens says:
      March 4, 2010 at 4:33 pm
      Author

      Normalmapping and baking is still coming up!

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    20. Mark says:
      March 7, 2010 at 3:58 pm

      Laurens hoe do you get th polygon counter in the upperleft of youre screen.
      It is pretty cool Though

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    21. Mark says:
      March 8, 2010 at 3:59 pm

      dankje heeft me geholpen je bent de besten tutorial ik leer veel van je ben nog maar 16 maar ik weel er later mn werk van maken… dankje wel hopelijk hoor ik nog veel van je.

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    22. Mark says:
      March 8, 2010 at 4:00 pm

      i am sorry i dindt know how to say it in english so i just sayd it in my own language

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    23. heysus says:
      March 9, 2010 at 6:47 am

      Its pronounced Fren-el

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    24. Ayoub says:
      March 11, 2010 at 12:51 pm

      thank you so much Laurens its really high quality tutorial , very informative and well organized

      God bless CGTuts+ and Laurens

      Reply
    25. Duke says:
      March 12, 2010 at 9:22 am

      Very nice Tut! But your Ref is not a Chevy Big Block, its a Mopar which is more in Dodge, Plymouth etc. And its not the Cylinderhead its the Valvecover! However…thanks for sharing knowlege!

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      • Laurens says:
        March 15, 2010 at 10:25 am
        Author

        Hah, I knew a gearhead was gonna come by and catch me on some of this stuff. I know a lot, but it’s more motorcycle engines and my technical terms are usually in dutch and french. Translating that can be tough at times!

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    26. romio says:
      April 3, 2010 at 2:29 pm

      great work great……

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    27. Ahmed says:
      April 19, 2010 at 8:54 pm

      I think , that-is INDUBITABLY-StahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaGGERing!
      From Egypt.

      Reply
    28. Joe says:
      May 19, 2010 at 7:17 pm

      Hi,
      Haven’t had chance to watch all the videos yet but jsut watched the bonus and i’ve gotta say a massive thank you, i always have troubles obtaining good renders and this has helped me loads!.

      Thanks mate

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    29. Dawn says:
      August 25, 2010 at 10:44 am

      Very good tutorial. Just one little thing that bugged me was the overly excessive (and, Im sorry ‘boring’) technical explanations on how certain parts of the car/engine work, especially as I already knew most of these, and don’t feel that the information is needed to create the engine. It would have been much more useful to me (with it being a MAX tutorial) to have a little more explanation on some of the max functions that you were using and why.

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    30. Dennis says:
      October 7, 2010 at 11:59 am

      I just stumbled upon this tutorial, and I must say, I have never been more pleased with a complete start to finish tutorial. This is seriously going to help my workflow, and further my skills in the game development side of 3ds Max. Thanks for making this free, and thanks for making such a high quality tutorial, Lauren.

      10/5

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