Just wanted to let you know about a new opportunity to get your work featured in “In Focus”.
GETTING INVOLVED WITH IN FOCUS!
I’d like to extend you all an invite to get involved in future editions of In Focus by submitting to me in this thread your favorite fantasy livery from Forza Horizon 2 that you’ve painted, along with some words about your creation. I’ll then be picking my favorites from the thread for inclusion in upcoming editions of the article on both the website and the Forza Hub app on the Xbox One dash!
If you want to submit a livery for consideration then please follow the below format in your post.
Gamertag
Car Make/Model
Livery Name
Link(s) to at least one 1920x1080 image of the livery in question, feel free to be creative when picking your images!
Some descriptive text about your livery (max of 800 characters including spaces)
Feel free to post your submission either in this thread or in the weekly In Focus forum thread found in the news section
Originally on a Ferrari 360 and going to be a one off livery for my wife, we both decided I’d remake and share on a different car (so she keeps the 360), its original artwork with some reflective decal touches that only show up when the light hits it, The black, grey and pink in the colour scheme works well with the car too.
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Freegun Lexus GetPhoto (52) by martin, on Flickr
Hey my name is MARTIN i’ve been on forza since forza 2 forza 3 and forza 4 my favorite of the series.
My paint is on a Lexus LFA a awesome car.My paint is based loosely of a underwear company yeah thats right I painted my underwear.
Only done a few paints on forza horizon 2 because the game is too much fun so never in the paint booth.
Many thanks for looking and hope that is plenty of info…
This is the first and probably last design I’m planning on making for Forza Horizon 2. I really wanted to mix the colors with the characters while still keeping everything divided and unique, and I can safely say this is the largest and most in-depth design I’ve created in any of the Forza games. I set out to make it on a Monday morning, and I was determined to do my best to finish it as soon as I could. As expected, it took an enormous amount of time, but I got it done in forty hours in four days. It’s by far the most detailed characters I’ve made in any previous design, and I believe it shows, especially in the hood of the Huracan. It almost feels like this kind of design was made for the car, it has perfect lines and easy to fill in spaces. Overall, this is my best work by a long shot.
Tag: Veato
Model: 1965 Mini Cooper S
Name: Barn Find
I’m in awe at some of the stuff that is produced in the paint shop and could never get close. I have tried a couple of racing replicas (in this and Forza’s of old) but always compromised with logos, etc. Because of this I decided to try an original design of my own inspired by the rat look. It’s the first time I’ve tried rust and decay and the first car I’ve spent so many hours (soooooo many hours!) painting.
This isn’t ‘scene’ rat look i.e. sticker bombed and deliberate rust, but a part-restored, tatty, mismatched panel colour, barn find kind of rat.
GT:cnwddesigns1212
CAR:alfa romeo 4c
DESIGN:zombie car
hi forza fans.this is one of my newest works.took a couple hours to make the zombie vinyls.around 1500 layers.added it to one sweet little ride from the new dlc pack.i have been designing since forza 3 and love the art of learning how to get better every attempt.it started for me by seeing other peoples work like ps3 eater.the frdt club designers and many others.i was just a race fan then.years later and thousands of cars later im pretty good at designing in my own opinion.lol.i have lots of designs to show enjoy.
This is my personal paint inspired by a French Drift team. I recreated this design with my own personal touches to make it less intimidating and also to make it stand out more. I placed it on my favorite car and also a car that appeals to the drift scene of Forza players.
After a break from painting, I was planning to create a Venom paint. However, during some image searches, the Star Wars trailer was released.
That changed things.
I thought some of the screen grabs might be achievable, so I went for it.
Usually, I spend ages choosing which car to paint, but straight away I picked the Audi TT RS. Nice, flat, panels, give the paint room.
The most complex piece of the whole paint was the Millennium Falcon. With no real defined shading, it was hard to take from a block colour piece.
The rest fell into place quite well.
The figure on the bonnet was quite simple, with heavy use of gradients in order to capture the fabric of his cloak. That was something I learnt from a few FM5 projects.
I’m happy with how it looks. Even though it has complex vinyl’s, the overall paint is uncluttered, and clean.
Gamertag: RenardArgent
Car: 2011 Bugatti Veyron SS
Livery name: Reaper
Hi - as a newcomer to Forza (FM5 and FH2), I’ve been inspired to paint by the quality of the designs that my fellow gamers have shared - much of the artwork out there is astounding and I can only hope to reach the same heights - a lot more practice is needed I think!
That said, I thought I would share my design for the Bugatti Veyron SS. This is only my fourth design but I’m quite pleased with the outcome. I love the Bugatti in FH2 and wanted to do it justice. I started with the white trim outlining the base of the car with the intention of designing a race paint - I really liked the sharp contrast between the white and the car’s base colour. However, after playing about with logos and numbers, I realised that I wanted to do more with the design and opted to create a fantasy paint instead.
One of things I like about the Bugatti is its ability to scythe through the traffic and that was the inspiration for the Reaper design! I wanted the Reaper to be otherworldly hence the flames shooting out of its hood. For the bonnet, I chose to reproduce the scythe motif to avoid cluttering up the design.
The next stage was the toughest - how was I going to make the design more coordinated and less of a mishmash of different decals. There was always going to be flames in the design and I then decided on colour gradients running from the back of the car to the sides - as if the Reaper had been spat out from a hellish world into the ice cold night.
The idea behind the imagery on the roof was a faceless mass of people cowering before the Reaper, partly hidden in shadow. Although simple in design (with just a head, a left hand and a right hand for each figure), the scaling of the figures and the blending of them into the background works quite well to add a sense of perspective and to produce the crowd effect.
A few final touches to the sides and the top and the design was finished. It took far longer than it would for an established designer but I think it was worth it! All I need to do now is to decide what to work on next! No doubt, my inspiration will continue to be fuelled by my fellow painters (especially the SGC!).
hi my name is AKA FFA, i have been painting since fm 5 playing since fm 1, in fm 5 i started painting a bunch of Archer cartoon paints, but i soon found the cartoons to be a bit easy and not very challenging, so i started doing a couple of portraits to some degree of success namely Prince and the Mad Hatter, with the launch of fh 2 i continued this trend with a half decent portrait of Kurt Cobain, I also started a line of nature themed designs. Being realistic i realised there was something not quite right about my designs and pictures so I started to follow and friend the artist Stuzib85 on twitch, watched and interacted with him during his paint tutorial broadcasts, i figured out where i was going wrong and copied some of his techniques, feeling like i knew the secret i wanted to do some stuff that was way out of my league and very ambitious which brings me here, so i very proudly offer up for consideration two designs, firstly my take on Salvador Dali’s Metamorphosis of narcisus and Michaelangelos creation of Adam from the sistine chapel
The design is just called P51 in the game. I’ve been making variations on this paint since FM2, mostly on Mustangs, but on other models as well (there’s one for the 67 Corvette called Warbird also available). Coyote Ugly because of the 5.0 Coyote engine in the recent Mustang GT models. The nose art was adapted from a Jessica Rabbit pin-up by PIxelprimUS that is much better than my tracing here. Being able to have a bare metal finish means I can finally do this right.
Hey guys this is my first time that I have showcased my designs in any forum so please by kind.
The car that I have Shown here is MY version on how the NFS MOVIE MUSTANG would have looked like if it was based on this model WITHOUT the wide body design but I wanted to keep the elements of the original car in the movie into this design but make it suit the standard body of the Mustang as well.
the design was simple in most parts but the most hardest and my proudest feature that I have done is the side vents, I didn’t realise how realistic it looks until I saw it in the photo here, I might consider doing this design on the 2015 mustang considering that it in a way has more features that look similar to the movie car, but I just have to wait and see I guess.
Hey guys this is my first time that I have showcased my designs in any forum so please by kind.
The car that I have Shown here is MY version on how the NFS MOVIE MUSTANG would have looked like if it was based on this model WITHOUT the wide body design but I wanted to keep the elements of the original car in the movie into this design but make it suit the standard body of the Mustang as well.
the design was simple in most parts but the most hardest and my proudest feature that I have done is the side vents, I didn’t realise how realistic it looked until I saw it in the photo here, I might consider doing this design on the 2015 mustang considering that it in a way has more features that look similar to the movie car, but I just have to wait and see I guess.
I am a beginner Livery creator in FH2, Am submitting my latest design Legend Of Korra Livery.
Gamer Tag: LuciferOfWater
Car : Audi R8 Coupe V10 plus 5.2 FSI quattro
File name: Korra
Korra
Right Side
Left Side
Back/Top
Perspective
Well I am a big fan of series and thought about making a Livery about it. It was hard and took me around 2 weeks to finish this, as i don’t have an artistic background. but am quite happy with it. This design has Korra and her using all the elements . It was a big challenge in sketching Korra and then coloring the whole design as this is my first attempt at it. Another Challenge was picking the car. I knew the design was elaborate hence Audi R8 served the purpose perfect as it had a smooth large hood and overall a lot of space.
