Donny's Non-Trek Stuff
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Hey, the '89 Batmobile is one of the first objects I tried to model in 3D!
You're doing a considerably better job of it than I did. It already looks amazing and I've spent long enough staring at photos of the thing to know how accurate you've gotten it.
You're doing a considerably better job of it than I did. It already looks amazing and I've spent long enough staring at photos of the thing to know how accurate you've gotten it.
Nicely done!
Will this be the only Batmobile you'll attempt?Hey, peeps! It's been a minute since I've posted any work on these boards, basically because a bulk of what I'm doing is now going into the Roddenberry Archive and I can't share that stuff for now.
Anyway, seeing the The Batman in the theater a couple of weeks ago triggered my childhood obsession with Batman, so I've been nerding out hardcore on all things Bat lately. Got it in my head I wanted to model something from the franchise, and since I grew up with and have an affinity for the Burton/Keaton films, the 89 Batmobile was what I settled on.
This lady is tricky because there aren't any accurate schematics of this thing publicly available that I could find, so I had to resort to a new (to me) method of reference. The AMT model kit is fairly accurate in terms of proportions (but glaringly inaccurate in just one or two details), but having a model kit next to me at my desk is no match for schematics. So what I did is actually invested a nice camera and did a very rough photogrammetry scan of the AMT kit which I bought, assembled, and painted matte grey. The results weren't nearly as clean as I wanted (probably due to my not being able to photograph it in nice, even lighting), but it did give me a rough 3D model with more or less correct proportions to bring into 3Ds max to build a much cleaner model on top of it. It's served as an invaluable guide.
I was also down in Los Angeles last week for some work stuff, and while I was there I went to the Petersen Automotive Museum which had an accurate replica of the 89 Batmobile there. With my new camera, I took lots of pictures to supplement the references.
I've spent most of the time just getting the shape of the body just right before I started cutting in all the details. I don't think I've ever tackled something with so many curves that flow into each other before...this really ia a beast! I spend a couple days on the fins alone. Anyway, here is where it stands as of now! Very very WIP.
Hope you all are doing well!
For now!
I actually attempted the '66 Batmobile back in 2015 but never finished it. Maybe one of these days I'll get back around to it.
Any chance you're going to make it so your Batmobile can convert into the Batmissile?
Ha! No.
I actually thought about that while on my walk today. It's nearly impossible without putting seams all over the damn thing, destroying the beauty of it's form.
Anyway, she now has eyes!
This discussion and presentation of Batmobiles made me wonder, "How did the car appear in the comics right before the debut of the 1966 TV series?" I found the answer considerably faster than i expected, though I wish the sample art was a bit clearer.
http://www.batmobilehistory.com/1962-batmobile.php
http://www.batmobilehistory.com/1962-batmobile.php
The Adam West Batmobile is the most interesting Bat-vehicle I've ever seen; I feel that vehicle could blend in any movie Batman universe and still be bad ass.
There's another Batmobile design I found interesting but it only existed from the imagination of comic book Chief of DC Comics, Jim Lee. He illustrated an incomplete comic series called "All Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder" where Lee created a Batmobile in issue #9 which had a nod to Dick Sprang, and Frank Miller's influence.
Always loved that Batmobile design. Well done!
1988’s looks like a Spinner
Oh damn, that is an amazing amount of detail.
