The Complete Bike Owner's Manual

[bmcaff]

I was commissioned by DK Books to produce over 600 3D illustrations for the Complete Bike Owners Manual released earlier this year. These included full page spreads of cutaway detail, step-by-step repair and installation instructions, cover art, chapter covers, full exploded views and various other instructional images. Of course everything was rendered in Max with VRay. Modeling was split between Max and Modo. I used VrayClipper for all the cutaways. HDRLS for all the lighting setup.

I built upon a bike model I had built a few years ago and made a complete model of a carbon road bike with all internals included in order to show the breakdown and repair of the various parts. I also had a second full model of a mountain bike created by Gino Marcomini and Ronnie Olsthoorn as well as various parts and tools completed by Moises Guerra Armas.

Here are some images from the book.



More info about the book here https://www.dk.com/uk/9780241226155-the-complete-bike-owners-manual/

More images at:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0WLV5

https://www.behance.net/gallery/5771...-Owners-Manual

Thanks for checking it out.

[glorybound]

WOW, good for you and great job!

[prateekvishwa]

amazing work!

[JezUK]

Beautiful work

Well done !

[mitviz]

sweet work man! love this

[NicoC]

Very nice !!! original kind of work, nicely executed, well done

[francomanko]

awesome work, would love to see some wireframes, especially on some of the more complicated bits of geo. Well done

[jacksc02]

Wow! Awesome work.
I used to be a bike mechanic and you have captured all of the correct detail in all of the parts.
The shaders are also spot on!

[bmcaff]

Thanks guys!
Franco I'll see if I can dig out some wire frames for you. There are some here from a previous project though https://www.behance.net/gallery/2006...Digital-Tutors.

Chris, I am an avid bike mechanic and that was a big part of my sales pitch for the job. Two weeks into the project the consultants who were to produce all the text and the methodology pulled out so for a good while I had to draw on my own experience to push the book along. Ended up with a consultant credit as well so pretty happy about that.

[swords]

Nice work!

[Nearl]

Nicely done! That's a lot of work!

[Garryclarke]

Wow, great work!
As a keen cyclist (road) and obsessive tinkerer, I love the attention to detail. Fantastic job.

Out of interest, how did you do the handlebar tape?

[s0real]

fantastic work! were you supplied with cad data for the parts?
any tips on how to remove a stuck seatpost?

[bmcaff]

Thanks Garry, the fully wrapped bar tape was done with a displacement map hand painted in Photoshop. The step-by-step had to be all modeled though as I had to should how it was wrapped.

s0real, nope, didn't get any CAD for this. The road bike I modeled myself from on-hand reference (I have almost this exact bike) the mountain bike was also modeled, with my own mountain bike as reference, by Gino Macomini and Ronnie Olsthoorn. I shot a whole series of photos from which a scan was created by Ronnie but proved to be only useful as a proportional guide. It looked like it was caught in a snowstorm.

Depending on the frame material and how badly it is stuck: you can use boiling water poured on the frame along with WD40 for steel or aluminium and freeze spray on the post for carbon. Good luck with that though, there are no guarantees.