Modelling a Fiat 500

Thursday, 27th August 2009

For the past week and a half I’ve been modelling a Fiat 500 as the final piece for my showreel. Cars are pretty difficult things to get right, and the Fiat 500 is an even more difficult car to get right. With sports cars the sleek aerodynamic lines run throughout the car and they look a lot like when you suck ice cream off a spoon and leave a polyp of matter behind. OK, so that’s a weird simile, but the point is that the Fiat is not particularly aerodynamic looking - but it is full of lines and angles that are hard to get right. And I’m a perfectionist in this case. Almost there, though, and once I am, I’ll put together my showreel and start sending it off. After 6 months of work I hope it’s worth the effort.