Taking a render and building it in real life isn’t a new concept on Speedhunters. How do we go about making it real?” The Ol’ Render To Reality… But With A Twist After a bit of deliberating, we quickly reached a point where everyone was happy, and the car looked outrageous. “The detail on the paint and the turbofans took a little longer, as Rocky’s involvement here led to specific tweaks and changes in order to make it feel like his car. You make a case for what you prefer most, but in the end, we thought stuff it – let’s do both! What’s a NFS hero car if you impose limitations on it?” “We couldn’t decide whether we wanted it white or black it had such a different feel in either colour. “That was down to myself, Darren White and Mike Cornwell of EA,” says Bryn. He has one of the greatest and most obscure car collections of anyone we know and – being a car dealer by trade – when he says everything is for sale, he genuinely means it.īut what about that split paintwork – what triggered the decision to draw a line quite literally between the two halves? Richard ‘Fish’ Fisher is a brilliant human being. All from a car originally found tucked away in a Chicago garage… The Chicago Toybox Collection So while the physical building and parts selection would be taken care of by Speedhunters’ technical editor Ryan Stewart, it was Rocky – along with EA and Criterion Games Vehicle Art Director (and the car’s designer) Bryn Alban – who created the outrageous style you see here. Especially when you learn that Rocky collaborated with Mercedes on his AWGE capsule collection earlier this year. Rocky is no exception to this, and in the world of hip hop there’s one car brand which remains more referenced than any other in history: Mercedes-Benz.Īs the main protagonist in Need for Speed: Unbound, it only seemed right to get Rocky’s input while designing (and building) the 190 E Benz he drives in the game.
Hip hop and car culture have long been intertwined with the style, attitude and wealth of artists elevated by the vehicles they drive.
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