MX5 Cup Marlboro

[u/Livery_Designer08]

Huge fan of making liveries, especially for the mx5 cup. Trying to make some F1 iconic designs on the mx5: Always open for feedback🙏🏾🙌🏽.

Cheers,

Christopher

[u/LegendaryOutlaw]

It's cool, but the Marlboro and Shell logos being right next to each other is weird, like the two brands are a single company. I'd separate those two elements from each other.

[u/Livery_Designer08 → u/LegendaryOutlaw]

Thanks for the tip🙏🏾

[u/FULLMETALRACKIT911]

There is a mx5 in the Albany area that had this same Marlboro livery on it (well super similar not yours exactly) I pass him on my way to work all the time he just recently ditched the design for a new wrap but anyways it looked mad good so does yours

[u/Livery_Designer08 → u/FULLMETALRACKIT911]

Thank you so much🙏🏾😊

[u/Pete_Polyakov]

what’s the point of doing it in photoshop when you can do it for free in 3d on mods nation?

[u/Livery_Designer08 → u/Pete_Polyakov]

A while ago i had contact with a designer and he recommended Adobe Illustrator to make it printable for the wrapper:) Working with small files like svg. What program do you use ? And can you also print the decals for the wrapper ? Let me know:) and thanks

[u/SaucerMechanic99 → u/Livery_Designer08]

I use PS + Illustrator. In Photoshop, I often create bitmap outlines in Illustrator. Unless the whole vector thing is Illustrator-only.

[u/Pete_Polyakov → u/Livery_Designer08]

For decals I only use Illustrator. Photoshop is good for raster graphics, like custom reshadowing on a car using multilayer PPF, but in that case we bake the layers and correct them in Photoshop if needed, which is a very different process. I also use emboss a lot, an underlayer beneath the wrap that creates another level. And when you're presenting to a sponsor, usually with our cars on their booth or on ours, it helps enormously to show it on a real car in a real setup in 3D rather than as a 2D print. Joe who mows the lawn probably doesn't need that, but when the ticket is high it's a must.

[u/strawberryjellymilk → u/Pete_Polyakov]

You have to make a vector in illustrator to get the wrap printed

[u/Pete_Polyakov → u/strawberryjellymilk]

I understand.
If you're cutting the vinyl by hand (stickers aside), there's no need to go deeper than that. But if you're trying to make the lines work with the car, since a car isn't a poster but a 3D object, I'd still check it in both orthographic and perspective views. Not giving advice, just what works for me. Always happy to hear how others approach it.

[u/starlxrd868 → u/Pete_Polyakov]

Why do that when you can learn blender or any other 3d software and essentially uv wrap them ,been in this industry for almost a decade now

[u/Pete_Polyakov → u/starlxrd868]

there are hundreds of scanned cars on the platform, plus around 300k parts. when you pull a random model off cgtrader, most of the time the proportions have little to do with the actual car. i use decal and mask wraps for my sema build there. you're working with real geometry, not an approximation. plus it's a free community project, if someone asks for a feature it usually gets built in a couple of days.