Good point
@TerryA ! I’m really glad that you asked this question in order for all of us to keep our awareness.
I agree with you about the concrete jungles we see it today surrounding us. In my hometown Örebro ( Pennybridge ) has been building new homes apartment and parking garages this last 10 years very aggressively and most of them is bland grey concrete with modern finesse as facades. Some of them would look good but others don’t. So the building becomes standard with concrete grey because it’s cheaper now and strong if mixtures were done correctly. Even cheaper than wood. That’s sadly what we most often see today, because before 1960s, the buildings type where of gothic architecture which we see in old towns in centre.
Now with this alarming concrete jungle result in higher surrounding temperature than ever and this is where (nuts environmentalist) comes in and say it’s a rise in global temperature and the blame is cars and not buildings
( In reality we don't even know because the data can't be trusted, meaning it can be manipulated to reach the desired goal of the lobbyist). To combat this problem, look at Singapore (
How Singapore Uses Science to Stay Cool - YouTube) where they shot themselves on their foot building concrete buildings and have to dress up some greenery around the facades and on the roof to keep it cool. Some building company has come up with new wood technology to be fire resistant so it’s bringing back wood but more costly in production for those who have more capital.
So yes, we do see same buildings, same clothes, same news, less quality of foods, cars and list will go on. One will be labeled as conspiracy theorist as soon as you become critical thinker.
Now to the automotive design: There is no standard paint but most of the automotive designers choose this particular grey ( also silver ) because it’s easy and a really good contrast to have a black paint trim, wheels and grills that will look “modern” and aggressive with such same association with buildings. In reality, you can’t see much scratches on a silver/gray paint than u would on other colors. So maybe that’s why automotive industries choose it. It also act as a camouflage in concrete jungle. Grey/silver will always resemble as metal regardless.
But car 3d designer/modeler would use solid Red, silver/grey, black or white as a paint which we see on the street. They will only paint as something they took a picture with or being associated with it. But no other colors because it's very complex to choose correct color mixes.
In my defense, reason I picked black, white, grey/silver is because of the software not allowing me to have the freedom to explore colors mixes because it will never be a match 100 % of what I see on the street with CPU render, it takes many hours to see if color is correct but it will never be 100 %. But with this new GPU Render with quicker response and accuracy is higher, from 1 to 5 seconds response time, I can now freely choose any color I like without delay, and I love to try almandine red or Nautical blue on my models, it’s about time!
In this scene I modeled a modern house that is located on an island such as Ibiza or Greece, where they paint buildings to white because of less heat absorption. Maybe I need to put it whiter than looking as concrete light grey perhaps. I like to show how the car stand out, which is a good contrast with sunlight going on, inspiration comes from this
My education doesn’t go towards design, I study electrical engineering but very heavily interested in all fields of engineering and physics. What I do on 3D is on my free time that will add as a part of education later on if I would be interested in automotive engineering/design, then why not?
that blue and even the ducktail although I would never put one on my car.
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