It all started from a lone artist's doodle for a 'futuristic cruiser' and ended up as a real superbike. Tim Cameron started 3D since 1990 with Imagine 1.0 and he has been modelling on what he sketched all these while... His works mainly are motorcycle designs which he hoped a strong interest would keeps him going on and this is how he learnt to model in 3D! He discovered the freedom of being able to 'build what you can think of'' and now, he's using Lightwave 3D together with a rendering plug-in - FPrime...
At the point of time, he was getting bored of the current world's custom motorcycle design... So he decided to go in the other direction and his design ideas are based on aircraft and science fiction and which played a part of having V-Rex as a 'futuristic cruiser'... His style of workflow is very light on sketching and very heavy on modelling... According to him, he has a large directory where he stored all the 3D object files for all of the bikes parts... But for this model, all the parts had to be built from scratch!
His works have received some good publicity and many offers through email from interested parties to build the bike 'for real'... None of them came true until a day, an engineer and former bike racer - Christian Travert emailed him and stated "I can build it!"... And right now, the first five bikes to make it off the Travertson production live are already pre-sold... It is powered by a 1250cc liquid cooled engine delivering 120hp and 74.0ft.lbs at 7000rpm the Tron-likeV-Rex boasts a wheelbase of 79.2in/2010mm and a dry weight of 670lbs/304kg and has a listed price of $39,990...
Now this is what i called "Imagination Meets Inspiration"! Cool huh? Here's a little information about the 3D model... It was completed modelling by March 2004 and consisted of 811, 000 polygons...During April 2004 - May 2004, Tim worked on a virtual 'studio' set-up and render the model which ended up in issue 270 of Ozbike, Australian bike mag, as an eight-page cover story and was picked up by bikes mag all over the world! February 2005, Travert became instantly obsessed with Cameron’s design and sent Tim an email with the subject: 'RE: Dreambike on the streets of America' and stated "I can build it!"...
To be open, weeks ago, i was kinda depressed about my lack of skill on 3D... After reading this article, i felt quite motivated and told myself even though i may not ended up in 3D industry, but at least i will treat 3D as an interest, hobby and passion! Having great interests in 3D doesn't mean that i must work in this line, right?... So, let's just enjoy IT! Yeah! Hahahaha... K lahz... That's all folks!
