Envy...awesomeness

My mountain biking buddy just bought a new bike from overseas via internet purchase. Its a SANTA CRUZ: NOMAD freeride bike with top notch and performance "FOX RACING DHX 5" suspension system all worth $$$$$ **bling **bling. Yeah the parts along bling too. Also he equiped a newly release SHIMANO LX 2nd generation variant called "SLX" for rear derailuer parts. My eyes was cought on his CNC mega *bling *blig factor. A "THOMPSON X4" stem which for the first time i saw it in pure poslished alloy block color. Wooaaahhh....my jaw completely dropped. Envy. Ride on dude!

Texturing and UV mapping , the wheels finally looks alive!

Ahhh!! check this out. Its done! Fresh from the oven. The rendering, texturing and UV mapping process of texture have completed for the wheel itself. Didn't take that long. Corel and Z-modeler tools always the best choice. It looks awesome! As usual the wheels looks realistic as usual. Handy work hee hee.. Well i guess thats it for today. I'll continue with the body texturing and rendering tomorrow.

New FIREX DS8-XL wheel - phase 2 construct

Ok, its done, fresh mesh with new flange styling for my new concept muscle car wheels. First glance it looks pretty much retro in concept with thick tyres and robust pindle offset but thats how it should blend with the retro looks of the car. I've tried several wheels size, tyre profile size and variable center offset but i decided to choose this spec. This design give a special feeling to retro lover and viewer. It has this muscle thing, hot wheel taste, like looking at Diecast car or toys adored by big boys. Thick drag tyre means business and always a symbol of powerful acceleration and phat factor. It took me 5 hours and extensive brain power to get the wheel right and match the car looks. As planned this wheel model will be called as: "FIREX DS8-XL"
I think thats about it for 3d building task, yay! Finally i can go to next phase: Rendering and texturing. This is my favorite part where this car go *Bling!. But it takes top notch hardware to do that. Yes, its time to pump up the power of Nvidia graphic card. First will render the wheel texturing. Lets go!