Ectomobiles 1 and 1A 3d Models

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Howdy all! I’ve been lurking around here for a bit, amazed at the talented bunch of fans that have gathered here. I had some time off of work over the holidays and decided to make in 3d one of my favorite cars, the Ecto-1a! This site was invaluable in gathering reference material, and I thank you for putting all that info up! It helped make sure all those warning stickers are accurate…ish. :slight_smile:

I was planning on making the firehouse to place the car in, but ran out of time. Perhaps later.

I’ve already started adjusting the decals, props, and roof rack to make the Ecto-1 as well for those lovers of the original car. 8)

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Thanks for looking!

Decimus

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I was looking for a good ECTO model so I can make a file for my garmin GPS and have the ECTO on screen. Your model looks fantastic :3

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That

made me do this

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You sir, are amazing. You are unbelievably talented. That is the coolest ■■■■■■■ thing I’ve aaughlarhglarhagharlaahahahhh

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Do you have a cleaned-up version? Please say yes.

Can you take wallpaper-size pictures of it from these types of angles? Please say yes.

http://boomerjinks.deviantart.com/gallery/31053543

Jesus christ I’m excited.

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Video proof of you doing this, or it didn’t happen.

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gorgeous rendering, thanks for sharing. do you have a website w/ more work to show?

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That is amazing, great job! I can’t wait to see the Ecto-1 as well.

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This is relevant to my interests…

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Beautiful work -wow!

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I gotta agree with everyone else–that is damn impressive.

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I second needing some wallpaper sized images.

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what program are you using, MAYA? I cant tell

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3rd wallpaper sized post request. (1920x1200 here!)

Great work!

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Hey thanks all! Yea i can get some wallpaper sized images posted soon and some other views. Boomerjinks, I like those views you had on your deviantart page. Shooting those in a grungy environment was definitely the right choice. It’s what i was hoping to do with the firehouse when I can make it. Very nice shots you had there!

I can probably do a couple more views, but I’m back at work now so I’m reduced to a small amount of free time late in the evenings or weekends. The Ecto-1 is coming along, however after having worked on the Ecto-1a, the Ecto-1 looks a bit naked up top hehe. :slight_smile:

Thanks again!

Decimus

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Good to hear you are doing both versions. How high is the polycount, and what are you modelling in? (I’m a lightwaver from wayyy back.)

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Poly count got over 1.1 million due to subdivisions, and I modeled it in Maya. Everyone I’ve ever met that has used Lightwave is super passionate about it vs. other programs.

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There was a time when Lightwave was the cat’s meow.. but that was years ago. I still like the modeler, but its been outdated and surpassed by max, maya and modo now. I have modo, but I’ve just never migrated to it for modelling.

Newtek has been delivering far too little, far too late, and the original dev team migrated to Modo, and its where lightwave’s advancements should be now, instead of still mired in the past.

I was going to ask if you were going to make the models available when you were done with them (I was thinking of doing a odd rodd or cars type morph for them) but I haven’t taken a model that large into lightwave for years for morphing.. I’m not sure how sluggish it would be.

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This is amazing; always good to see the Ecto-1a getting some love!

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This is really awesome.

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I’d love to see original Ecto-1 like that : )