The Cord 812, was a [luxury automobile] produced by the Cord Automobile division of the Auburn Automobile Company in 1936 and 1937. It was the first American-designed and built front wheel drive car with independent front suspension. It was preceded by Cord’s own 1929, and the French 1934 Citroën front wheel drive cars, but the 812 was commercially less successful than these.
The Cord 810 and 812 were also the first production cars to feature hidden/pop-up headlights. Additionally, the radical new styling of its nose completely replaced the traditional radiator grille, in favor of horizontal louvers, that curved all around the sides of the nose, earning the car’s styling the nickname of ‘coffin nose’.
I modeled this car in Rhino 8 using SubD surfacing extensively. A shout out to Kyle Houchens here for his excellent tutorials…and Kyle, you were right, TSplines background helped a lot coming up to speed on Rhino SubD…only Rhino SubD is light years ahead of TSplines…Thanks again for your excellent and entertaining demos.
The background is pure fiction. I created a prompt in Midjourney (AI) and had it create the background. Then, I took that image into photoshop and turned it into a .png file. I then brought it into Rhino and created a environment with that image spherically mapped and then rendered the car, using the actual image to light the scene. Then I took that rendering into photoshop and it seamlessly integrated into the scene with the grass and buildings reflected into the vehicle. Then I took that image into AI on the web and created the animation…I hope this helps.
Because of you and your great videos, I was able to move forward, as I jumped from Rhino 5 on the Windows platform (running on a old MacBookPro with a intel chip) and made the jump to Rhino 8…my God…what an improvement…it’s jaw dropping…
So, again, thanks for your engaging, fun and informative videos…they were a Godsend…
yep, v8 sadly had a rocky release but it’s settled in nicely to be quite good IMO. we certainly still have some stuff to fix, and always have stuff to improve but the current state of the subd stuff is quite good.
