El Camino cargo transport concept art
I designed El Camino thinking about creating a memorable ship, with some characteristics that give a lot of actual functionality and a lot of character as well, the mechanical and tough look had to be part of this old ship, but at the same time of course it has to look "cool" in the sense of more agile than other cargo ships, it can maneuver more like a fighter almost.
Raul Campos was the lead 3D modeler for this project and I think he did a great job, along my Co-Director and Producer ( https://www.artstation.com/win_campos ) I think we achieved an iconic shape that definitely stands out.
We of course wanted more of this ship, so I took it to my friends at https://haxu3d.com/en/, and they did the awesome 3D printing and detailing of 2 ships, this only confirm how cool the design turned out.
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Final Concept Art
Silhouette studies and cargo separation planning
Rear concept art paint over Raul Campos 3D Modeling
Look & Development, when Raul finished the modeling, it was time to decide the final look, Fernando Campos and I, decided not to go with the original concept color as we thought this should look more like an actual Truck
Final 3D model done by Raul Campos, check out a more detailed post about how Raul completed this model
I designed the utility lights to make it functional, and also to give a nice sense of scale
El Camino fly by, for this shot I wanted to show off the detail that Raul achieved here. it was just an excuse for it, that's why it's flying slow closer to the camera *uncropped
For this shot, the cargo detaches from the main ship, I did animation, lighting and rendering and comp.
Final shot *uncropped
For the close up shots were we see the ship discarding the Cargo element, I had to model more detail and ended up doing these shots from modeling to comp
Final shot *uncropped
Cargo element, hidden face extra detail modeling, lighting & rendering
final comp * uncropped
Layout anim early test.
Explosion simulation by https://www.artstation.com/molokoplus
Final comp in Nuke, I did the explosion composite using a bunch of explosion clips to make it look more photoreal
3D printing by https://haxu3d.com/en/
My hand for scale