With this project, I wanted to bring a different feel to it and after some research, I was inspired by 1960s mafia movies with the whole mysterious and a bit darkish theme. For the vehicle in mind, I wanted something that was not very associated with the mafia thus stumbling on the 1955 Volkswagen Beetle which I never really considered it but when I saw it I got inspired to take on the challenge to make it as mafia-like as possible and create a scene that would instantly put the viewer back into the 1960s.

For this, I had a very specific model in mind and that was a 1955 VW Beetle with the split window in the back, the polished chrome hubcaps and it had to have a two-tone paint job as well as lots of metallic flakes.

For this, I did the whole modeling in Autodesk Maya using curves and then creating a Loft between them which I would convert to mesh and continue modeling.

For texturing, I used Substance Painter to get the materials I really wanted and then put the whole model into Unreal Engine to create a scene. For the background, I used assets from Bridge to get the feeling of a 1960s New York building.