Behind The Scenes: Car Showroom

If there's something I don't like, it's the real world getting in way of getting stuff done. I just love, when I can sit down to work in the morning and get in the flow for the rest of the day to work on some new piece. But then the world comes knocking  on the door and the flow is gone.

I had to go change sparkplugs in my car recently and I hate to do tasks like this. As I was sitting in the waiting lounge of the dealership, I got bored pretty quickly and started to look around. I noticed, that after a while, I was looking at shapes of the stock cars, trying to figure out, how I would approach the modeling. This happens a lot when you often do 3D design.

And that simple thought itself was enough to decide to do a car dealership diorama. I just wanted to do it. It's pretty unique in a way. It's interior, yet there are things (cars), that belong outside and simply look different when placed in a room.

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Right there in the waiting room, I opened up my Pinterest app and started to browse different showroom ideas. Found some interesting pieces, but after a while came across a nice retro design with a red Italian car. That led me a bit astray and changed my mind to go back a few years.

For this to work, I needed a really good car design to deliver the feeling of old school elegance and design. Just two words. Alfa. Romeo. I love the brand and even though I had a fair share of the renown Alfa Romeo "reliability" in my life, it's still the car with the most emotion and soul.  I picked the Spider, since it's a pretty compact design, yet it's elegant and sporty at the same time.

By the time my sparkplugs were changed, I had a new inspiration board in my pocket, ready to go home and start sketching.

This part was pretty straightforward. I just needed to fit a car in the room in a reasonable way, so that it can be dominant element and still leave the room for some other details and furniture.

I've took some inspiration from the board and included a simple large window and took note of the materials I'm going to use. Combination of concrete and wooden parquette seemed pretty slick.

So I thought some mundane task will get in my way of being creative and get things done. What happened was, not only it didn't slow me down in any way, it actually inspired me and made the whole process new and enjoyable.

The next time I have to go outside to do something, I will think of a way to make the most of it again.

You can watch the process video on Youtube