RebelTaxi (Fan Art)
This is a piece of fan art I did since September. I haven't uploaded the entire process here, because I thought I did at one point. So here's the story:
Pan was wondering why did no one asked him if he wanted his little ship in a video game? Some YouTubers like The Yogscast had one. So I decided to go for the challenge by making one for him... In Acclaim's 1999 RC Racer, Re-Volt. But specifically, this is made for the fan-made OpenGL port, RVGL.
The Box Art for the game's car select screen. Re-Volt has this box art style for the cars, so I did just that.
The Outline. The bottom-left is Pan's sketch, while the rest is a more clean look. Not a fan of that color, IMO.
Basic render. The car/ship's focus is to be mostly vertex painted, plus I changed the yellow here.
The In-game model seemed a bit too big for it's own good. As you could see, I'm not a fan of the environment mapping here since every car model is all "smooth-shaded" & such.
WIP textures. One thing to note is that Re-Volt uses their own model files here, but I have the exact plugin for that. I used the HabitatB plugin on a bit more than RVGL (mostly the vertex paint).
Updated in-game model. Now there's some specialized HabitatB features that could make the ship more of a unique look into it.
Some action: This is the cockpit view, which was introduced in the fanmade 1.2 patch for Re-Volt. This is a custom variant which I specially used just to get this at the right angle.
The Back side. "Juice n' Jam Time." Originally, the ship's going to have some gritty textures, but that didn't go so well, so I kept it flat.
The 4 color variants: RebelTaxi Yellow, Gothtober Orange, Mirage Green, and Devilrazor Black.
Apart from the updated modeling (which incl. certain materials), on the 4 colors, I've added some extra details on the dashboard & such.