The Astrum Meera is a proposed concept car possessing several distinctive features that play a unique role in safety, sustainability, and practical design. The exhaust of the car has built-in sensors that track the level of CO2 emmisions and alert the driver when it exceeds the normal range. The wheel rims work through magnetic levitation, like train wheels, making the car lighter and faster. The side mirrors are hidden when parked and roll out of the body once the engine starts. The mirrors have a built-in camera system that allows the driver to clearly see outside from inside the vehicle without opening windows in the rain or turning your head around.
This is the whole process from start to finish, showing a few highlights from each phase.
Sketches
Concept
Logo
Plans
Clay Renderings
Studio Renders
Details
The wheel rims work through magnetic levitation, like train wheels, making the car lighter and faster.
The exhaust of the car has built-in sensors that track the level of CO2 emmisions and alert the driver when it exceeds the normal range.
The mirrors have a built-in camera system that allows the driver to clearly see outside from inside the vehicle without opening windows in the rain or turning your head around.
Well It got better as you go. The sketches you show are, on their way to getting there. A few are okay, most show your commitment and that you are pushing to move forward. The logo dose not work well as badging on the car. Reduce it to an icon type logo (nike has the swoosh). The proportions are a little bizarre, you may have had said earlier, is this an electric car or something that will not need the volume for an engine compartment, and what not? I too would like to know how it is that the car will be propelled forward by magnets and more importantly how would it stop? I’ve driven numerous fast cars and all the good ones had fast brakes too. The parting lines on the model seem to have large gaps, is this an American car?
I went back and looked at it a little longer.
This is not sensual form. It’s not like a woman, or a sheet pulled by the wind. I’m sure the drag coefficient is super low do to the area of the front but the form will not make anyone weak in the knees. All the lights could use the space better on the body, also the exhaust tips look silly and fake behind the wheels, you may want to move them below the number plate. There the tips can have more form and brake the line across the bottom of the car.
I like the idea of the car, the complete design seems a little off. The sharp edges on the headlights, rear and grilles make the car look like it was designed by two different people. I would take this platform and throw a little more style into it!
Kudos for pushing through the entire project.
Where are the moodboards? Where did the entire design emerge from? As of now it looks like it was done on the go with whatever inspiration you had at the time.
Some serious conflicts in form though, with some very organic flud lines which then get murdered by sharp and straight forms in a very awkward manner. But it looks like there is a very sexy black car underneath a large bulky/boxxy piece of Hockey shoulderpads. Windshield looked extremely strange in teh illustrator lineart, but after the adjustments it works surprisingly well in the 3d renderings.
Just from experience I guess. If you wanted to put the exhaust there it would need to have ninety degree bends with small radii, not good for output. If you ran them straight out the back the manifold would drop down and merge then there would be a flex pipe and a resonator/cat/ muffler with some pipe connecting it all. These elements all have size and volume so that needs to be considered in the design. It’s like the old saying that there is a chair in a room, a room in a building, and a building in a city. The car here is a car. It isn’t tied to any consumer tightly, it isn’t too specific at all. Keep it up, your modeling skills are obviously pretty good and I’m sure that everything will come along. Maybe look at more cars from the past.
