My creative process for this project was pretty straight forward. Seeing the challenge I immediately began thinking about what I might make. When most people think about the future of transport they might imagine high speed bullet trains, flying cars or perhaps teleportation. But I believe that none of these are as practical, plausible or probable to be the popular mode of transport as the car.
Yes, the good old automobile will most certainly dominate the transportation industry for the foreseeable future. The freedom to go wherever the road takes you. Unconstrained by time schedules or set tracks. Truly the best form of transportation.
This being said the future of the car is changing. It is clear that a great transition is taking place in the world. We are replacing the gasoline based combustion engine and embracing alternative fuels and most importantly electrically powered vehicles. EV’s (Electrical vehicles) do however face a major drawback. They are dependent on powerstations and need time to recharge. But what if you could solve this? What if you allow the car to bring the powerstation with it? So I was struck by the idea of a nuclear powered car.
I originally decided that I would go for a more atomic-era look and although it does retain many of the traits of that era, that being the overall rounded shapes and chrome detailing, I do believe I ended up with a pretty unique shape that was a bit different from what I imagined in the beginning but it turned out looking very cool. To really show that this was a nuclear powered car I decided to have the core sticking out of the hood and it was also around this time that I started getting some new ideas and I began to go for a more “speed-demon” look. To contrast the smooth shape of the hull I added some chrome detailings, all of them trailing back towards the rear of the car to tell you that this car is meant to go fast.
When I finally was finished and it was time for me to hit render I ran in to some road blocks. I obviously needed some motion blur but it Blenders motion blur setting was causing the render to fail. So what I ended up doing was that I rendered the scene in three layers. One for the car, one for the background and one for the road and buildings. Combining the road, buildings and background and then adding a directional blur which after tweaking the rotation gave for some impressive results.
Overall I would say this was a great project. It was very fun to work in and I also managed to pick up a few new tricks along the way, and although there where a few bumps in the road I can now finally present:
The Kratheon Demoncore. Fitted with a state of the art nitrogen cooled thorium reactor. This is the definition of psychotic speed in the 22:nd century. With an exposed core this car sacrifices safety for top of the line speed. Leaving a blazing trail of Strontium 19.