Modeling a 2008 Audi TT Roadster
A Project by Hayley Cusick

 

Project Overview

Project Overview: My goal for this project was to create a high poly model of a 2008 Audi TT Roadster. After all the modeling I was hoping to make a short video to show off the car. You can find this video under gallery, along with a few renders of the final product of the car.

What I Did: Modeled entire car
  Map on hadlights and tal lights
  Background and ground
  All lighting
  Short video
What Other People Did: Headlight and Tail light textures

Software Tools: 3ds Max 2009

Final Video Render Time: About 1 hour

System Specs: 2.13Ghz Intel Core2 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 256MB ATI Radeon X1300PRO video card

Project Timeline: To have some kind of idea of how to make the Audi I followed some videos showing steps for another type of car. About half way through my project I broke away from the videos and started to onlly use them as references.

 
Timeline
WEEK 1 Finished about half of the rough shape of the car
WEEK 2 Didn't work on project due to finals
WEEK 3 I finished the rough shape of the car and started rounding out the part abouve th wheels
WEEK 4 I finished the back details and started on the grill
WEEK 5 I pretty much finished the modeling of the car, I was focusing on tweaking different parts to get them right
WEEK 6 I finished the tires and started on the side mirrors
WEEK 7 I worked on getting the car paint right and started on the video
WEEK 8 I finished the video and finished the website

My thoughts on this project : At the end of this project, I think I walked away with a lot more knowledge about modeling and 3ds max than at the beginning. My goal was to finish a fairly realistic model of a 2008 Audi TT Roadster. I think with the amount of time allotted I did pretty well. If I had more time I think I could have done more to make the model as best as possible.

I found a few things frustrating throughout this process. On something's I couldn't really get them the way I wanted and so I had to settle for what I had. I would have liked to do an interior, but I just didn't have enough time. All and all I'm happy with the out come of this project. I think it gave me a lot of experience with 3ds max and modeling.