I’ve always liked the shape of the third generation Thunderbird, half a rocket ship, half a bullet. This car was modeled for a music video for Poets of the Fall in around 2003. It was used for all the exterior shots in their music video for a song called Late Goodbye.

I wanted to render it again with better lighting and shaders but what I find cool is that the details still hold up today, 13 years later. This was the first model I ever made in Softimage XSI, I think the version was 3.5.

The 3d model has about million polygons, it was required to hold up on close ups. The UV unwrapping was a major pain in the hiney, so many parts and so much detail. In the end the work put into the model shows, even after 13 years.