This 3D car is loosely adapted from one of the illustrations in my cartoony 2D kids' book called Crazy Cars. This one is dog-powered. I admit it's slow - that exercise wheel has to turn quite a few times to rotate the main axle even once - but hey, have you seen the price of oil lately?

After I'd spent so much time doing 2D drawings I was keen to see how some would look if I added that extra dimension. Surprisingly the 3D, for all its visual appeal, made it more difficult to understand the workings of the machinery. That seems to be because when working in 2D I find myself 'cheating' with the perspective, linework and shadows and stuff in order to show exactly what I want. I only realised how much I'd done that when i tried converting some of them to 3D.

I used Cinema to model and render it. I lit it with hdri plus a couple of lights to pick up some detail and specularity.

Any sorts of comments are welcome. Thanks for looking