Johan Wejedal

Objective: to mimic a photo of my choice using 3D studio Max (with some extra retouch work in Photoshop). I chose a photo of the iconic Stratos Zero, an ultra futurist concept car made by Bertone in 1970. It has been a favorite desing for me for over 35 years and I always found the surfacing and styling of this car to be highly fascinating.

The "Quark", a electric fun car of my design. This car was design and modelled by me in Alias AutoStudio in 2017. However, I wantd to try out importing Alias-files to 3D S Max to render them with Corona. It took a lot of prepatory work to get it to the files to work in 3D S Max.

Imaginary Saab-revival project: What is Saab cars came back? What kind of vehicle would they produce? At the start of the project my team was given three different ready made "theme vehicles" made in 3D Studio Max to chose from: the Lightcycle from "Tron Legacy", a ATV-buggy and a flying car. As Saab was founded as an aircraft company, the choice was easy: the flying car. My job was to set materials and lighting and create renders the vehicle in various settings as well as to make some "merch"-products.

"Red Bull Air Race plane": the aim of this project was to first build a basic plane from manipulated basic shapes (using blueprints as guides) and then decorate it with some UVW-mapped decals and colour schemes. As I am a motor sports enthisiast, I opted to go for a style inspired by Red Bull's air racing series. The hardest part was to make the maps line up with perfect symmetry.