Lateral-g Project S-Curve renderings - Lateral-g Forums

3kidsnotime · #1 11-19-2006, 10:26 PM

This is our link to the Lateral-g Project car S-curve The rendering are in but I want every one to look at them for a few days before we vote, Lets get some input before the voting starts https://lateral-g.net/s-curve And lets give Ben Hermance, Jason Rushforth & Brian Stupski a great big thanks for the work they have done on the project

ProdigyCustoms · #2 11-20-2006, 01:19 AM

I like the prensentation Ben makes, but I like the car Jason draws a lot more. I think Jasons car theme is great, but looks a bit 66 Riviera ish in the rear quarters. But still the theme is a clear winner for me.

71Nova · #3 11-20-2006, 01:55 AM

All three of them are bad axs. I like Ben's the best even though I would need to see the color in person before being sure on it. I also like the exhaust and air intake ideas. I like Brians turn signals in the head light, but am torn on the shape of the air intake. should it match all the square shapes on the front such as the grill and slots in bumper, or round matching the head lights like in Brian and Jason's drawings. Acually the round holes on Jasons drawing look like they are most likely for fog/driving lights. Jason has a lot of tallent and I like his drawing, but I do not like the 2 tone with the strait line between the 2 colors.

**XcYZ** · #4 11-20-2006, 05:49 AM

I'll embed them in this thread.

Alex396ss · #5 11-20-2006, 06:16 AM

I´ll vote for Ben´s drawing, love the exhausts!

Alex

JohnnyGMachine · #6 11-20-2006, 07:26 AM

Good stuff guys! They all have some cool stuff happening. I always lean towards clean myself which leads me towards Ben and Brian's layouts. The black and gold I think could work but I'm personally not a fan of the big square ram air intakes although functional and cool in their own right. I like the smoothed off emblems and I really got a kick out of Ben's idea for the exhaust coming out of the lower tail light! Those are the kind of little details I really like to see myself. Overall I think I would have to lean towards Ben's design because it's super clean, the stripe is something different on an olds, and it's just clean with a couple nice details designed in.

I vote for Ben's design.

J

olds87 · #7 11-20-2006, 08:31 AM

I like Ben's rendering my self.

**JayR** · #8 11-20-2006, 08:33 AM

Thanks for the complements, feedback and input, everybody.

I would normally do a flat hood like Ben and Brian but Jeff wanted the Ram Air unit but Brian's hood with the chrome grilles looks so much better and I love Ben's exhaust, that's brilliant!

My influence for the gold split on the lower horizontal bodyline was of course, the Hurst Oldsmobiles but I took some liberties with stylizing it and making th top black instead of white to make it pop.

Ben and Brian, Great job and this was a fun project for a good cause.

John, Wish you had time to throw out a design for this project.

Marcus SC&C · #9 11-20-2006, 09:59 AM

They`re all really cool and I`m normally a sucker for a W-30 hood but Ben`s gets my vote. I LOVE the exhaust (that`s nicer than the `70 GS N-25 thru bumper exhaust!). The exact color will make it or break it though. Mark SC&C

Hdesign · #10 11-20-2006, 11:55 AM

First, I want to say thanks to everyone's feedback and continued participation as this project is really starting to get off the ground and pick up speed. Whichever styling concept gets chosen, I have every bit of confidence that Jeff will be able to execute it and that we will all be floored by the final result.

As for what everyone is looking at here, Jason, Brian and I discussed early on that we needed be sure to show a good range of concepts. There is very little overlap in the 3 that are shown. Having one strong "heritage based" concept was a great idea, but the others needed to be a fresh look and hopefully you all agree that we achieved that.

What I tried to do with mine was clean up the details while retaining the classic Olds look. The '70 rectangular blinkers match the rectangles in the grill, light surrounds and bumper but I wanted to add some G-machine functionality to them a-la air intakes/brake cooling. As for the taillights, the busy looking 72 inserts had to go. I added the silver stripe to continue the thick notch created by the front bumper and also to visually minimize rear quarter S-body bulge. It always looked awkward to me. The last little detail I smoothed was to remove the trim around the side marker lights. I chose slate blue because, #1 you don't see it very often, #2 Olds always had a more refined/classic look than other musclecars, (I tried about 50 combos) #3 I saw a Toyota Avalon with a shade that I absolutely love, #4 I want it to stand out among g-machines.

Anyway, thanks again everyone for getting involved. It was fun to work on this and I was not surprised at all by the premium quality of work by Jason and Brian. I really had to be on my toes for this one! Maybe John will have some time on the next project...hint hint. I would have loved to see what he had up his sleeve given more time.