I try some emmissive material in Rhino renderer. Modeled in Rhino 7, rendered in Rhino 7.
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Another awesome model Frank! keep em coming! I wish we had a particle system for fog so those lights could really glow. maybe @nathanletwory can give us a gift for v9… 
did you get a chance to try the rhino 8 autostudio environment?
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Thank´s for watching my posts. I play around with the rhino 8 autostudio - post some images at my GT-post. It looks good to me so i´ll use it the next time.
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awesome stuff- Thanks for sharing them, can’t wait to see your next one!
Congratulations Dear Mr. Frank Meyer - “humblingly” impressive quality level of work, not at last level of detail. Chapeau.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. I´ve read your deleted post yesterday. Nice drawings you´ve made. I`ve modeled the concept microbus from 2001 in 2009 and do some actual renderings after reading your post. Hunting concept cars is a nice hobby. But the modeling results by working with less informations are sobering.
Hope you like it.
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Thank you for the compliment.
I “get” what you want to say in parts … : ) in comparison to your ID.Buzz the form/surface of the microbus model is a little less accurate in some details, …of which to me on first glance without comparison any direct comparison only one is very obvious.
BUT: Factoring in that your Buzz model supposedly has been drawn based upon OEM drawings, supposedly the complete set of elevations, sections and views in dxf format, I guess, and the one of the microbus just based on photographs ?!! , the latter impresses me no less !
Crazy!
In addition to that, in 2009 there were neither the aforementioned “bible” nor the YT - tutorials of @sgreenawalt around. I do wonder how you learned your skills back then ?!
Crazy! again.
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To me the least “sobering” and most fun return I can draw out of: outputting the least amount of information possible = as little as possible more information as is needed to try out a thought or idea. Best suited to me is "the “lead pencil on translucent paper over a photograph - format”.
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This is literally five minutes and on the first try and no miracle in drawing skill, since the photograph does provide the perspective:
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This one not much more:
The possibility to correct your one drawing not only with the help of a decent “Knetradiergummi”/ “Art eraser” but also by putting a new layer on top of the preceding sketch is the most wonderful miracle to me, since it helps you seeing what might be important information without completly understanding it rationally beforehand.
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But of the more detailed sketches, over the early sneak peak of the Buzz provided by VW, I did dozens of:
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See original post (on swiss VW Forum) here.
All the errors in perspective and proportion - even though being much smaller than in the quick drawings - overshadow, the ideas that should have been conveyed, and would have been conveyed with less distraction = with less detail and a thicker pencil… Those drawings claim far too much.
Still - to me they are much more efficient than a 3D CAD model and at the same time do complement the 3D CAD work very well of course.
While I have been working with plasticine, too and - as indispensable as it might be - I consider it the tool that gives the least immediate pleasure.
See original one minute transformation - “video” here.
Working with illustrator over a photograph I found, was giving surprisingly convincing results in comparison to the more detailed hand drawings. Highly recommended, even by me as a beginner, when your ambitions on detail and accuracy exceed your sketching abilities.
I hope it might be entertaining somehow - though not showing any rendering.
Regards from Switzerland.
p.s.: I send you sketches over a microbus “photograph” and images of a VW Bus Camper interior based on 3D CAD work inside a 3D scan, with parts output by CNC(ply) and laser(stainless), since you do seam to like your VW Busses, later on via PM.
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Thats awesome Frank! Thank you for sharing!
Fun fact: There are some people, who worked on the original ID Buzz concepts here in the forums.
Keep going!
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Awesome, make the VW logo emissive as well.
Not in Germany - here it is forbidden by law
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Rightly so.
When (for normal cars) the Audi A4 (B8) was introduced with the swish, novel, and even elegant “S/U” shaped LED lights, it looked quite nice.
Now we have entered the new era of EV futurism, everything has to glow; which for me just detracts from the design and breaks the lines in a manner rather brash and poorly thought out. The VW Golf with a big LED bar across the front looks truly awful.
Great model by the way!
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Yea, Barroco time. It’s a bit more like Tron style. You can play with contras by strengthening the light and Led more tenuous or weak.
When I was 5, I remember recognizing Peugeot at night because of the light shape.