I Need Your Help, Ernie Ball Forum!

[73h Nils]

I Need Your Help, Ernie Ball Forum! UPDATED!

Okay, I am in a Drafting class at my high school and I wanted to enter a competition on Studica.com. The topic for the competition was to make a household item and I decided to make a guitar. It is NOT a MusicMan (I'm making one of those later ). It is an Ibanez JEM7VWH. It took around 75-100 hours of work in class and on my lunches.

NOW, HERE'S WHERE YOU COME IN!

I need votes! All you have to do is click the link below and scroll right, enter the 3 letters in the box and click, "Vote for this entry to win" (or whatever it says). Now, I understand, maybe you'll like someone else's entry more than mine, by all means vote for them, too (you get 3). But, I am confident that this guitar is one of the most detailed, elaborate, sexy things I have ever made (and I made a Lamborghini last year, haha) and that you will appreciate my hard work.

NEW LINK!!!
Studica Skills
If anyone wants higher quality bitmaps, they'll have to wait until I return to school on the 19th.

As sad as I am to say this, if a mod believes this should be deleted, go ahead, but I really believe this is music related due to the subject at hand. Please allow it!

Thank you to all who vote! I cannot thank you enough!

BTW. THREAD 666!

 

[Sub1 Zero]

Hey man, that's pretty cool . Whats next, maybe your JP?

 

[73h Nils]

Hey man, that's pretty cool . Whats next, maybe your JP?

That was the plan!

I just hate how the .gif takes away all the really sweet details... Oh well.

 

[Sub1 Zero]

save it in jpeg format

 

[73h Nils]

Actually, here's the thing. I was only allowed to upload one picture, or an animation. Being a guitar, there's not much to animate, so I went the picture route. Now, I found a loophole and submitted a .gif, because it is technically One picture, right? Jpegs and BMPs can't be animated as a slideshow, and that's why the textures are all low-res and ugly. You get the gist of what it's supposed to look like, though.

 

[scottie]

Pretty cool. You've got at least one vote now.

--scottie

 

[73h Nils]

Shoot me now!

I forgot to put the Inventor 11 logo on my project, so now I have to delete my entry, re-submit the edited version and lose all my votes! And I won't be able to do that until the 19th of March!!! *cries

NEVERMIND, IT'S ALL FIXED!!!

 

[heavymetaljames]

You got my vote - that must have been some hours of work - nice one!

 

[73h Nils]

Alright, here are some wireframes for anybody who is interested.

Sorry for the low quality...

 

[candid_x]

That's pretty cool. How long does it take you to render something like that, from scratch?

 

[73h Nils]

75-100 hours... So far...Technically there are some things I still need to do/fix.

 

[fogman]

LOL! That's cool!

I was acutally modelling a Silo on Revit (my architectural design software).
I was scaling everything from pics that I have.
I started this months ago, but haven't had any time to continue.

 

[73h Nils]

LOL! That's cool!

I was acutally modelling a Silo on Revit (my architectural design software).
I was scaling everything from pics that I have.
I started this months ago, but haven't had any time to continue.

That's how I started this project. I built the headstock from pictures and no measurements, but then I decided to go all out and this is the almost completed result. But yes, you need a lot of time to get good results. Keep at it, if you finish I'd like to see it!

 

[ekb16b]

wow.. nice work there, 3 votes from me

now that uve designed it, go and make it phyiscally

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Good work!

 

[73h Nils]

Actually, ekb16b, you can only vote once on the same entry, your other 2 attempts don't count .

Thanks guys!

Oh, by the way, I'm apparently designing my own and CNCing it, though (according to my teacher). I'll let you guys know how that turns out, haha.

 

[fogman]

That's how I started this project. I built the headstock from pictures and no measurements, but then I decided to go all out and this is the almost completed result. But yes, you need a lot of time to get good results. Keep at it, if you finish I'd like to see it!

I may just finish it.
I have all of the body done for the exception of the contours.
I'm going to put a reverse headstock on it. I think it'll look cool when done.
I'm thinking of rendering it with a "stealth black" finish.

 

[73h Nils]

The great thing about these programs is that there are so many colours/textures to choose from, you can go nuts with the options. To stay true to the actual JEM, I kept the real colours but I did have:
1. Carbon Fibre Headstock, Diamond Plate Body, Black Chrome Inlay
2. Bright Orange Body, Yellow Pickguard, Blue Headstock, Red Inlay.
3. A JEM2KDNA Swirl. Looked really neat.
4. Water. Took 4 minutes to render 'cause of all the mapping.

 

[73h Nils]

*Shameless Bump... Even though it's still on this page...

 

[Sub1 Zero]

*Shameless Bump... Even though it's still on this page...

I've never seen the shameless wearing this face...