Geometry complete

The main geometry of the bike is now complete. Finishing touches included foot controls, numberplate, handlebars and grips. The carb was a great little modeling challenge in itself.

Exhausting times

The bikes exhaust has been built around  two CV curves, extruded and joined. The Rocket Goldstar had a very distinctive 'siamesed' exhaust. It took a fair bit of fettling to join the two sets of geometry.

Bike progress

Quick progress update. Lots of new bits modelled including timing side cover, gearbox, swingarm, chain guard and rear suspension units. Next up..handlebars and exhaust so more curves coming this way!

Engine work

Happy New Year to everyone in the Blogosphere! Well, i've made a start on the most daunting part of the build...the engine! At the heart of the BSA Rocket Goldstar beats an A10 650cc parallel twin. I based these main engine parts on polygon primitives, with alot of extruding to get the finning correct. I'll add more detailing as I go, but for now its on to the timing cover and gear box.

BSA Rocket Goldstar

I've been working on a new bike model over the last couple of weeks. It's a BSA Rocket Goldstar.

Its been built using curves to create the smooth shapes of the frame, seat and tank, then processes such as Birail, extrude and loft to create the surfaces.

BBC Bitesize History

Really excited that the BBC Bitesize History site went live today. This update to the BBC revision site includes loads of illustrations the Kanoti team worked on. Here are a few of my favourites. Click here to see the whole site.

2CV with Norman

2cv with norman from oliver brown on Vimeo.

Here's an animation I made using the 2CV model I built. All animated and rendered in Maya. I used Mental ray and indirect lighting to give the car model a real polish. I learnt a lot about parenting constraints along the way.