Here is an infographic I created for WIRED magazine, Microsoft and the Renault F1 team using Sketchup + Thea Render (and some Photoshop to bring out those pinks).
Renault provided blueprints and references for the car which was made in Sketchup with SubD plugin. The models where then rendered in Thea with multiple different passes and then edited for colour balance in Photoshop. Everything was the split into layers to create the animation in HTML.
I first created the actual F1 Renault 2017 car but then it was decided that the car should be ‘downgraded’ to reflect a generic 2017 car rather than the specific Renault model for various reasons.
Here is a static image and the animation is above. I would recommend the view the animation on desktop as it’s not optimised that well for mobile.
Thanks all for the kind words, I will post here some images from the project I found while cleaning up Google Drive.
Here was the first car I made. Now one of the problems we had was that the Renault Car had not been announced at that time (or even finalised) and all of the reference images I had from Renault differed. For example at the time we had several different spoiler/wing and aerodynamic surface options. Not that I was complaining as the final wing turned out to be crazy and would have been a pain in the but to make.
Following this was a long discussion and back and forwards about shading options and colour schemes. I think the client wanted to retain the yellow while I wanted to go more towards chrome or matte. Don’t ask how but in the end we ended up with pink…!
Yes it’s the Renault simulator at the Enstone headquarters in the UK. It’s 12,800 X 1,600 px using 5 projectors. It’s not actually on actuators but I thought they looked better for illustrative purposes to show it’s a simulator.
