Car 3D Modeling Tutorials

A 3D modeling tutorial that explains the workflow process for creating an Aston Martin V8 Vantage in Maya using spline cage, NURBS patches and converting them to polygons for final details.

A detailed LightWave tutorial on how to model, texture and render a GP2 racing car. Created by digital artist Rodney Mella.

A detailed 114-pages pdf tutorial on technical surfacing from the official documentation of AliasStudio 2008.

A 4.5 hours webinar in three parts where designer Kyle Houchens provides an overview of his process of modeling cars with T-Splines for Rhino.

A video tutorial that shows the creation process of a car hood in Rhino 4.0.

A class from Autodesk University 2007 that covers geometry representation, NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) and looks at it from the perspective of a sculptural material. Includes slides and audio. Requires free registration.

In this official video Kerry Kingston presents the new Fillet tools in Autodesk Alias 2012, using some automotive surfacing examples.

A six parts video tutorial on how to mode a Lexus LFA in Autodesk Alias Automotive 2011. In Russian with English subtitles.

A detailed tutorial on how to model a car in Google SketchUp and render it in V-Ray (link to the automatic English translation from Russian).

A detailed video tutorial in 8 parts that explains how to create a stylized high poly vehicle in 3d Studio Max using sub-division surfaces.

In this webinar produced by Novedge McNeel training specialist Brian James explains single span surfacing workflows, analysis techniques such as zebra and environment maps and how to match geometric continuity across multiple intersections.

A 7 minutes video tutorials that shows how to model the basic shape of a car in modo 501 using polygonal modeling.

This 30 minutes video tutorial by Autodesk shows how to create a washout – a combination of two different shapes that flow together – in Alias Automotive 2010.

A 30 minutes video tutorial in Russian that shows how to creare a car washout in Rhino using the VSR Shape Modeling plugin.

Three free sample videos from a commercial tutorial on how to create a 3D model of a Bugatti Veyron in SolidWorks.

This video tutorial in Russian shows how to blend the A-pillar and the side panel surfaces in Autodesk Alias Surface.

A 1-hour video tutorial in Russian that explains how to create a fillet surface in Autodesk Alias when modeling a car body.

A video tutorial that shows the creation process of a car wheel arch in Rhino.