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Published: 2004-02-29 10:40:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 6701; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 2238
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The original concept for this vehicle was on display at the British Motor Show in 1996... for the future cars section. Students at Coventry University came up with the design. My model is a little different but the idea is the same.The vehicle is powered by electric motors which can be recharged while it is on the move – perhaps by roadside senders in much the same way that a train receives current. But there are no wheels! The propulsion, suspension, steering and braking is the responsibility of a mysterious malleable, muscular material that does not yet exist. There’s also no driver… navigation is computer controlled and safe travel relies on roadside sensors.
Oh… and yes the environment looks totally unrealistic, but I wanted to get this piece done fairly quickly (1 day modelling, 1 day compositing )… so I just whipped up something simple. I think it does quite well to balance things out though.
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Comments: 51
1 day compositing ???? are they 2 seprate renders or are u talking about the sky
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wow, freaking awsome!
love the textures and everything! 
good work!
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ooo i saw this in my book about concept cars. You rendered this well!
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Ahhh yes - I remember this being on the news. It was described something like a "Snail" from what I can remember.
Quite an idea those Students cooked up - Seems we're still no where near anything like this though
Nice re-creation/modification you've done though! Great job on the body, and the regardless of what you think about the background - It looks fine
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very cool, i dont use to comment this kind of digital art, but i am very impressed with this and the rest of your works.
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Reminds me of a car in The Sleeper (Woody Allen), Excellent work.
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Whoa, I can't believe it, I saw this car, or something VERY similar to it, in a Popular Science/Mechanincs magazine (can't remember which one) in like 1998.
According to them, it would have some sort of digital paint or something to that extent that would actively change colour according to its surroundings. It was supposed to be in production by this year. Just another example of how much humans overestimate themselves, I guess.
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wow this is very cool, i remember seeing a vehicle very similar in a book called how things work and it was in the futuristic transport section, very similar but i suppose theres loads of designs like that all over...great work!
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I like this one better. The one at the show had weird curly bits that looked like they'd catch on something. And the black-silver colour scheme was too common. This one makes it look better.
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brilliant work
i could totally see this on a car magazine
chips
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this is so sexay i want to fuck it or get fucked by it...
you a lightwave user tooo... ooooo god, thought I was alone in this planet.
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I'm just reading it now... It took you just two days! Very fast!
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Uhh this one rocks! A very brave try to make something different.
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hey .. nice work... i saw that show too... the vehicle moves because of a certain kind of rubber that vibrates due to some motors.. the whole concept is from a snail - how it 'wiggles' its lower body to move forward.. only here it'll be much much faster... i'm still waitin for them to actually demo the prototype... 
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hm, the image looks a bit noisy, but it's nice! very nice model, and cool colors
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WOW! O_O That's really, REALLY good!!! 
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Awww, KAWAII!!! ^_^...............
*cough* great work oliviboi. The textures are fantastically placed and the modelling is just superb. The sky looks brilliant, gosh so much to look at, you've amazed me once again loth.
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Man... that's impressive...
This might be such an expensive model...
The lights are very good and all the scenary is very good too.
I like all the colors in it.
And the car is absolutely impressive, needless to say.
And, oh, the textures! Great use of textures
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That's cool, I really like the simple modeling style and the lighting works well IMO.
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I'd like to drive with such a car
The textures look great!
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Great job man. I was expect something with wheels... but, hey. Although I must say, I liked the name Slugmobile better, ah well.
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as always, exelent artowork. I love the background "setup"
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That's so realistic it's not funny. I honestly thought it was a photograph
Great sky too
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haha!!! i remember this one! good old concept car book...
the building looks like something from thunderbirds
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crazy, i like how it looks so clean and soft. and the slugmobile seems so familiar, but i can't remember where i saw it. great job man.
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Ah just PS. I'm not keen on how LW generates skies.
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ahh cool. i'm going to be spending more time in lw soon, i want to learn the program well
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i love these rethro colors and look. great design of the "car". did you add the grain on purpose?
yeah, a
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Yea... just to prevent it looking too clean.
Thanks for the fav.
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wow! very cool! looks like the scenario was made of recycled paper
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pretty cool piece of work there
i always love new concept cars
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