After 11 months away from the LEC, and pretty much GT as a whole, I finally get to put an entry in
I really wanted to resist the urge to use red on this car as so many LMPs of the last few years have used it. I also dodged the Renown/Charge colours, as I knew it would’ve been done (probably very well) before. Instead going with Mazda’s heritage blue and white, modernised to blue, black & (hard to capture with the camera) chrome.
My focus was highlighting the car’s lines and making the Mazda brand as noticeable as possible. This proved incredibly difficult on the extremely curvaceous bodywork.
The stripes are filled with hidden Mazda logos. It’s an asymmetrical design; with colours flipping halfway through the car and stripes ducking under the cockpit. It utilises chrome & gradients, two of my favourite (and most frustrating
) techniques. It’s Sport mode compatible and I included the “P1” & “HY” logos for the WEC. I wanted it to feel like a real Le Mans car. There’s a heap of detail in this one I just couldn’t capture in one bonus pic.
In the end I’m just very glad I can enter it. I got 95% done, then checked the rules again and panicked thinking this was a group X car
https://www.gran-turismo.com/au/gtsport/user/livery/2320572/1/8142606058528998440