Peugeot Leonin Options

[Tudoran Liviu]

This concept car was made for the 5th peugeot design competition. The theme was to “IMAGINE THE PEUGEOT IN THE WORLDWIDE MEGALOPOLIS OF TOMORROW” and should bear Peugeot's stylistic codes. I named it "leonin" because it has a lion, aggressive aspect. It was made in aprox. 8 days from pencil drawings, modeling..to final renders.

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http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/531/leonin02bv3.jpg
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http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/296/leonin04sx7.jpg
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http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6840/leonin07vp0.jpg
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[madmatt]

Very Cool Model, What did you used for model & render it?

Bye

[newt @ MWE]

hey

Overall, I like the design, the roof line detail is beautifully organic. You really nailed the proportion and emotion behind it. However, I do have some reservations. I would really like to see a dead on side view.

The detailing in the front end and the back end are a little conflicting. I think the colour change (light grey to dark grey) is abrupt and it kind of looks like 2 front ends stuck together. I would almost say to make the entire lower the same colour and have the hood, doors and mirror panels/upper fenders (above the headlights) a contrasting colour. Rear end as is, continue the dark along the running boards including the front wheel fenders and everything beneath the headlights.

I don't know about the orange part over the rear wheels. It seems out of place and doesn't really do anything for the overall styling. If you are to leave it in, I would have it continue the lines of the running board (beneath the doors) around the rear of the car.

Also, why the 2 different wheels? I would like to see either matching wheels or cover that rear wheel right up kind of old bugatti style.

Finally, the rear end behind the wheels seems a little long or large and the large black area is a little distracting. Don't really have any ideas for this and it may just be the perspective rear view.

I guess this seems pretty negative, but it's more the detail tweaking than the overall design, I think you've nailed the overall emotion and flow behind the car. Keep us posted as to how you do.

newt

[lekkaut]

Hi,

I think you did a good job especially in that short time! I like the transparant bar on the back and the color schemes
the most. The link with the overall shape and the lion is very strong although the high shape doesn't appeal to me that much. It seems a bit unnatural to make the front higher than the back.

I like you renders but the lion in rightcorner seems very corny to me! Maybe you could use a icon instead of a picture. Maybe don't use any kind of picture, everybody knows what a lion lookes like...

Hope to see more of your work!

ps: what is the status of the current Peugot Design contests?

[powers]

Like the others, i also think the overall design is elegant and very becoming of Peugeot. Also like the others there are a couple points that for me are very distracting.

The big orange rubber band strapped over the rear wheels has to go. Maybe there is some kind of functional point to it but I certainly don't know what it is.

Next up is that side view mirror. It looks like you were trying to remove the front wheel arch with a giant aluminum wedge. To add to the uncomplimentary form is the fact that it looks like it would almost certainly be useless as a rear view mirror. If it's going to be fugly it better be functional, the rear view is both fugly and useless - but I have a fix for you here. OK look at look at that first 1/4 shot. See how that yellow orange line sweeps back over the roof and into the spoiler so gracefully? I think it would look about 974% better if that wedge of a mirror were replaced with the orange A pillar flowing just as perfectly into the mirror housing as it does into the spoiler. Eh? Eh!?

Finally - and this crit might be pointless if the mirror was fixed, I'd just have to see it - but I think the wheels are a bit close to the cabin. From both an aesthetic standpoint (the sweeping overall form sort of dead ends awkwardly at the nose, making it look like paisley on wheels - Im not a big fan of paisley) and from an ergonomic standpoint (where do your feet go), I think moving the wheels forward by about half a wheel length - a la Morgan Aero8 - would give the proportions a little more balance. It would also give it an even more futuristic, yet Sphinxlike look. Think about it, but fix the rear view first.

Again, lovely overall design, nice build quality and renders. I also think the name and the form are well resolved. Nice work.

[NickFowke]

Loving this design! Top work fella!!

[eobet]

The renders are nice, but are you aware that there already is a Peugeot lion car concept, from 2004?

http://www.ritzsite.net/Archive/0401.htm
http://www.fast-zi-nation.de/articles/ssc_4002.html
http://www.rexkaile.com/ttm/194

[muadib3d]

looks pretty similar to Nixus

Nixus page

[eobet]

looks pretty similar to Nixus

Nixus page

That looks more like the Lexus by Harald Belker for Minority Report...

...but I'm derailing the thread now, sorry!

(Insanely difficult to stay original while designing cars, isn't it?)

To try to bring the thread back:

The first and second pictures look very different. The first, frontal picture looks like the entire car has been made from clay and squished together. All lines are 100% round curves. But in the second picture, I see both curves and lines and the car seems longer. The second picture has more character, and looks less like something from Disney.

I like the way the rear wing is integreated into the supporting beams of the windows. That is probably my favourite part of the car.

Also, I have a question about the beam across the rear tyres, which also crosses the rear lights and become transparent... it looks intriguing, but what is it's purpose?

Finally, there seems to be what looks like a bigger air intake at the rear end than in the front. Why is that? What is that thing in the rear?

[halocooter]

personally i think it is super odd looking...why are the rear rims solid? the front rims are cool but rear are forgotten? also, the front pillars and side view mirrors look as if they are very much in the driver's/passengers line of sight? cool renderings!!

[Tudoran Liviu]

Thank you all for your comments. Sorry I didn't had the time to respond earlier. Modeled in 3dsmax 9, renderd with vray 1.5. I'm aware of all mistakes about the design, but It was made in 8 days before I entered the university of arts (industrial design section), so I didn't had so much knowledge about Industrial/automotive design. I know that it's allready a car named lion. That's why I called mine "leonin", wich means "lion aspect" not particullary a lion. All the best!

[Marcello]

I think thats good work, nice renderings, i just see some hard problems for the driver to look in front of the car, because the position of the driver might be very low (as is see where the sit is) i'm asking me will the driver ever see the street? or just the heaven?
The as i'm very tall, i immediatly saw that big persons will harldy knock their head at the roof-glass, because the roof is already descending over the drivers head...

I think it's nice for a concept car rendering, but there might be some issues if it should become a real car. So, Nice looking design that doesn't really fullfill the confort.

Marcello

[advancedboy]

The car seems to be too narrow, the width is too small. Can you imagine if you took of the tire and put it transversely in front of the car it would almost occupy the whole width. Good technique, but it lacks natural proportions, and would never go beyond an exercise . Sorry. keep up the good work! You can better!

[allen]

wow amazing image

[xonegon]

amazing concept and artwork of a car, I must admint the orange parts around the wheels do seem unneccesary and could be replaced with a stylish rim.
to be honnest , if they made this, I'd buy it