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Guide: How to request complex car skins

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Guide · Car skins If you would like a complex car skin, we need proper reference material from you: clear pictures of your design from every side of the car, detailed enough for us to take the artwork from. You can create them with any AI tool of your choice, or make them yourself.

Why we ask for this

Without your references, we cannot create exactly what you have in mind. If you really have something specific in mind, send us the material.

Contents
  1. What a good reference looks like
  2. Creating references with AI
  3. More examples
  4. Glowing car skins
  5. Sending your request
  6. See also

What a good reference looks like

A good reference sheet shows the whole car from every side, so every panel of the skin can be taken from it:

  • All five views: top, front, back, left side and right side.
  • Realistic, with clearly visible details: artwork, text, patterns and logos must be easy to read.
  • Zoomed in, with the car always fully visible in each view.
  • A plain white background and no shadows, with reflections on the car itself.
Reference sheet of a 1969 Dodge Charger in purple digital camo with anime artwork, shown from the top, both sides, the front and the back on a white background
A 1969 Dodge Charger: top, left side, right side, front and back views on a white background, with every detail readable.

Creating references with AI

Any AI image tool works. Describe the car and your design, and ask for the five views. You can copy this example prompt and change the car and the details to your own: 

Create a car skin concept of a [PICK YOUR CAR MODEL NAME HERE]: extremely realistic, very clearly visible details, zoomed in but with the car always fully visible, white background, no shadows, reflections on the car.
Viewpoints: top view, front view, left side view, right side view, back view.
Details: [describe your design here]
Put your own car model in the prompt

Replace [PICK YOUR CAR MODEL NAME HERE] with the exact model of the car you want the skin for, including the year, for example 1969 Dodge Charger. Without the correct model, the references will show the wrong car.

The more precise your details (colours, patterns, text, and where each element goes on the car), the closer the result will be to what you have in mind.

More examples

  • Reference sheet of a black and red modern Dodge Charger with labelled views
    A modern Dodge Charger, with each view labelled.
  • Reference sheet of an eight-wheeled armoured vehicle in purple geometric camo
    An armoured vehicle: both sides, top, front and back.

Glowing car skins

On a glowing skin, parts of the car light up when its headlights are on. For one of these, we need to see your design both ways: every view with the lights off and with the lights on.

Reference sheet of a purple 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS, every view shown twice: with the lights off, and with the lights on and purple neon lines glowing along the body
A 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS: top, front, both sides and back, each with the lights off and with the lights on.

A simple prompt for this kind of concept. Change the car, the colours and the parts that glow to your own: 

Create a glowing car skin concept of a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS: extremely realistic, white background, no shadows.
Show every view twice, once with the lights off and once with the lights on: top view, front view, left side view, right side view, back view.
Lights off: deep purple paint. Lights on: bright purple neon lines glow along the body edges, the wheel arches and the lights.

Sending your request

Open a ticket in our Discord and attach your reference images to it, so the team has everything from the start.

See also

Getting helpHow to open a ticket in our Discord.
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