Traditional Styled Hot Rod Sedan

An Old Skool hot rod powered by a flat head V8. These were the kinds of hot rods that were the norm when I was growing up and one of the reasons I feel in love with the cool cars which were so popular and showcased in all the popular hot rod magazines.

Illustration is based on a 3D model I created from scratch using Hexagon 3D w.5 and Silo 2.0.

Rendered in Daz Studio with 3D Delight renderer. Post work in Photoshop CC 2018, Topaz Studio Impression and Filter Forge 7.0.

Hot Rod Sedan

Digital illustration created using a free 3D model from 3DWarehouse.com, Sketchup, Photoshop, Corel Painter and ArtRage. Going for a comic book, sketchy type of style…

1933 Pontiac sedan street rod

I took this photo at the 2016 Atlantic Nationals, Moncton, New Brunswick Canada with my Nikon D7100 and Nikkor 18-105mm lens.29082210532_e4db76eb59_b

1931 Ford Model A pickup hot rod

Love these traditional styled hot rods. Would look right at home in the pages of the Rodder’s Journal publication.

2016 Atlantic Nationals, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada – Friday July 8th downtown Moncton.

Camera: Nikon D7100 & Nikkor 18-105mm lens

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2016 Atlantic Nationals

I had the extreme pleasure of attending this years annual Atlantic NationalsĀ Car Showin Moncton, New Brunswick. It is the largest car event in Atlantic Canada and one of the largest in Canada. There were close to 2,000 cars this year…

1928 Ford Roadster pickup & 1931 Ford Pickup hot rodsĀ 

Show attendant directing driver of 1931 Ford to a parking spot while the driver of the 28 Roadster looks on. It is quite evident these cars are influenced by the traditional style hot rods of HAMB and the Rodder’s Journal magazine.

2016 Atlantic Nationals, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada – Friday July 8th downtown Moncton.

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Camera: Nikon D7100 & Nikkor 18-105mm lens

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1936 Buick “lowrider”

1936 Buick built to be a low rider.
The image was render in Vue Complete using the NPR (non photorealisitic render) settings. The car is a free model from 3DWarehouse and the buildings are the Dystopia buildings for Vue.

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Hot Rod Sedan

This is my interpretation of a typical American hot rod. Hot rods originated in southern California when returning WWII soldiers wanted to create an American equivalent of the light and nimble sports cars of Europe (MGs, Alfa Romeos, etc). Suped up engines mostly V8s were swapped in place of the original motors. To help improve performance body parts were often removed. Fenders, bumpers, hoods, running boards were often shed to increase the horsepower to weight ratio of the vehicle.

In this image I used a late 1920s, early 1930s sedan body as the basis for the car. Powered by a early model Ford flathead V8 which
is supercharged with three carburetors. The roof of the sedan has been chopped to reduce it’s height.

I created the car from scratch using 3D modeling apps. The bulk of the modeling was done in Hexagon 3D and Silo 3D. For UV mapping I used 3DCoat. Textures were created in Photoshop and applied in Vue Complete 2015, where the scene wasĀ  rendered.

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And a NPR render in Vue Complete 2015, I masked out the background from the render and substituted a paper texture in Photoshop…

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Love 3DCoat 4.5 and Vue Complete 2015 is the best Vue EVER…..

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The 2015 Annual Atlantic Nationals Automotive Extravaganza

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July 2015, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada…. All photos by Ken R Morris Jr

Information on this year’s 2016 Atlantic Nationals at this link

 

Another vehicle created using Groboto, ArtRage & Photoshop.

Retro Red Exotic – An exotic sportscar of the future borrowing some styling from cars of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.

 

Grobo-car

Grobo-car – My vision of a hot rod of the future powered by a clean energy source and has dual wheels in the rear, making it a 6 wheel vehicle.

A car which has performance and energy efficient. I created the car in Groboto which is a 3D modeling application. I then brought the base render into Artrage 4.5 where I painted over the image and applied a gradient. I used Photoshop for color correction and applied a texture to the background and added some noise to the car.

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