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Michael Gillett

Design Engineer and Illustrator — Essex, United Kingdom

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Published:: Sep 17, 2009

Industrial Design

The custom shop

A collection of images of a hot rod and a minitruck that I modelled in Alias back in 2009.

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Hot rod model - Re-rendered versions of the model with some changes to some of the details and different rendering environments

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Hot rod model - Re-rendered versions of the model with some changes to some of the details and different rendering environments

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Shop truck with hot rod - One version of the shop truck

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Shop truck with hot rod - One version of the shop truck

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Shop truck with hot rod - One version of the shop truck

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Shop truck with hot rod - One version of the shop truck

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Custom Minitruck - Slammed, custom version of the shop truck. Complete with smoothed bodywork, LED tail lamps and airbag suspension. Not forgetting the all important camber on those chrome front wheels.

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Work in progress Hot rod model - Early 3D models of a '32 ford based exercise. A lot more to come on these!

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Work in progress Hot rod model - I tried to mix the traditional look with some modern touches, by fitting the car with very low profile stretched rubber, and thin LED rear lights. The chassis shape has been changed dramatically from traditional hot rods, in order to make the car as low as possible with those oversized rear wheels.

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Work in progress Red hot rod - This is the final hot rod model with more traditional steel wheels and chrome hubcaps wearing old style tyres with wide white walls.

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Work in progress Red hot rod - This is the final hot rod model with more traditional steel wheels and chrome hubcaps wearing old style tyres with wide white walls.

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Work in progress Red hot rod - This is the final hot rod model with more traditional steel wheels and chrome hubcaps wearing old style tyres with wide white walls.

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Work in progress Red hot rod - This is the final hot rod model with more traditional steel wheels and chrome hubcaps wearing old style tyres with wide white walls.

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Final hot rod model - This is the final hot rod model with more traditional steel wheels and chrome hubcaps wearing old style tyres with wide white walls. This render is using a low reflective grey gloss plastic to texture all surfaces. I really like this finish for evaluation purposes.

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Black hot rod - This is the final hot rod model with more traditional steel wheels and chrome hubcaps wearing old style tyres with wide white walls.

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Black hot rod - This is the final hot rod model with more traditional steel wheels and chrome hubcaps wearing old style tyres with wide white walls.

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Black hot rod - This is the final hot rod model with more traditional steel wheels and chrome hubcaps wearing old style tyres with wide white walls.

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Black hot rod - This is the final hot rod model with more traditional steel wheels and chrome hubcaps wearing old style tyres with wide white walls.

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Michael Gillett Nov 29, 2009

Thats true about the sound. I guess its a compromise you'd have to make against the rising fuel costs. I never really designed it. Just modelled it takng parts from different pictures of rods i like! Thanks a lot man.
Charli Marsh Nov 29, 2009

Yeah I do like the way the rear wheels sit and the arch design is pretty nice, how did you come up with it? Haven't seen much like it before. I can also appreciate the modification to allow for different and more eco-friendlier set ups, but the only problem with that is you'll never get it to sound right! Haha. Would be nice to get a bit more mileage out of them though! Had a look through your portfolio, and its all pretty sound work.
Michael Gillett Nov 29, 2009

Most off the shelf 'glass rods these day have modern suspension and fuel injection anyway so have lost the old time feeling imo. Might as well go the whole hog! I appreciate your critique though, you certainly do know your rods! And if it werent such a pain to rebuild some of the bits you mentioned, than maybe id remodel it. Would probably easier to rebuild the whole thing though! Cheers!
Michael Gillett Nov 29, 2009

The idea would be the whole shell would be made from fibreglass, with a tubular chassis underneath. So the frame would be fake anyway, and the ride height could be easilly adjusteable. This would make the vehicle very lightweight and allow a large range of modern powerplants to go in that would still be powerful and make a very quick rod, but also please the more modern eco friendly hot rodder.
Michael Gillett Nov 29, 2009

I tend to think its a lowboy if its channelled over the frame, if the grille needs chopping, and if the top of the rear wheels sit higher than the rear arch recess. This was designed from scratch to represent a 32, but not to be a 32 modified.
Charli Marsh Nov 28, 2009

It's too low for a highboy. I can see how you want to bring it low, for I dare i say it... a modern feel.... But to balance it out you may want to make it straighter along the body, with bigger rear tyres. But to balance it out I would increase the size of the headlights, chanel the the front bonnet so it's more exaggerated and stylised. Plus maybe make the badge more prominent or not at all? Sorry to nit-pick, i just love rods =D xx
Marc Levinson Oct 30, 2009

Sweet lowboy! Great render.
Mike Turner Sep 30, 2009

Definitely slammed. . . no getting away from it!
Mike Turner Jul 31, 2009

Cool stuff!

Mike Turner Jul 31, 2009

Cool stuff!
Mike Turner Sep 30, 2009

Definitely slammed. . . no getting away from it!
Marc Levinson Oct 30, 2009

Sweet lowboy! Great render.
Charli Marsh Nov 28, 2009

It's too low for a highboy. I can see how you want to bring it low, for I dare i say it... a modern feel.... But to balance it out you may want to make it straighter along the body, with bigger rear tyres. But to balance it out I would increase the size of the headlights, chanel the the front bonnet so it's more exaggerated and stylised. Plus maybe make the badge more prominent or not at all? Sorry to nit-pick, i just love rods =D xx
Michael Gillett Nov 29, 2009

I tend to think its a lowboy if its channelled over the frame, if the grille needs chopping, and if the top of the rear wheels sit higher than the rear arch recess. This was designed from scratch to represent a 32, but not to be a 32 modified.
Michael Gillett Nov 29, 2009

The idea would be the whole shell would be made from fibreglass, with a tubular chassis underneath. So the frame would be fake anyway, and the ride height could be easilly adjusteable. This would make the vehicle very lightweight and allow a large range of modern powerplants to go in that would still be powerful and make a very quick rod, but also please the more modern eco friendly hot rodder.
Michael Gillett Nov 29, 2009

Most off the shelf 'glass rods these day have modern suspension and fuel injection anyway so have lost the old time feeling imo. Might as well go the whole hog! I appreciate your critique though, you certainly do know your rods! And if it werent such a pain to rebuild some of the bits you mentioned, than maybe id remodel it. Would probably easier to rebuild the whole thing though! Cheers!
Charli Marsh Nov 29, 2009

Yeah I do like the way the rear wheels sit and the arch design is pretty nice, how did you come up with it? Haven't seen much like it before. I can also appreciate the modification to allow for different and more eco-friendlier set ups, but the only problem with that is you'll never get it to sound right! Haha. Would be nice to get a bit more mileage out of them though! Had a look through your portfolio, and its all pretty sound work.
Michael Gillett Nov 29, 2009

Thats true about the sound. I guess its a compromise you'd have to make against the rising fuel costs. I never really designed it. Just modelled it takng parts from different pictures of rods i like! Thanks a lot man.