Heh, pretty cool Maya render.

 

hey man... not too bad. i dont know anything about maya
but i work in 3dsmax v5 and here is a nice little tutorial i found
on making a very realistic car paint texture... im not sure if you
can somehow use it in Maya but good luck...

 

Whoops, sorry to mislead. I didn't do this model. I got it from a friend this weekend. He downloaded a car paint plugin for Maya but it's not that great.

 

350ZTwinTurbo, I work in Max 5 for a living as well for a multimedia/internet comapny. What sort of work do you do?

 

I do models and very limited animation. Right now i am in an engineering graphics course to learn not just making a model but how all the parts work and how to do true CAD. i do anything from cars, gun, tanks, to planes. i am currently working on an F-22 Raptor. i guess i wasn't too clear. i dont work in max for a living. i WISH i could. im only 16 but i have been doing graphics with max for over 2 years and everything i have learned so far was self taught or with online tutorials. any chance i can get to do design work like what u do i would take in a heart beat. after this course, i am going to start advertising myself to some local graphics companies and maybe someone will bite and give me a better job then working for 6/hr at a movie theater.... if u like i can send you some work that i have done. but ur job is what i want to do after i get out of college for sure.

 

That's cool, stick with it. I went to school for 3d but most of the fundamentals I learned on my own. Do you have any links to some car design sites? I do traditional art as well and am really interested in concept art/car designs. I'm looking for tutorials and things of that nature.

 

psh heck yeha i do bro... i got em over flowin my Favs menu...

here ya go...

http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/tut3ds.asp
http://www.geocities.com/mcmach1/tt/TT.html
http://www.3dkingdom.org/modules.php...9&allstories=1
very good blueprints site
http://www.3dm-mc.com/index.php
http://home.raz.ro/index2.htm
http://www.onnovanbraam.com/index.ph...inecarmodeling


this should get you started...

 

Thanks. Some I have already, some are new, so cool!