Luxury Motor Yacht Hull & Deck in Rhino

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Industrial design Rhino Surface modelling Rendering

Role

Sketch and 3D surface modelling

Course

IDUS 231, SCAD

Date

Dec 2025

Tools

Rhino

Brief

A luxury motor yacht for IDUS 231 at SCAD, December 2025. I started from my own marker line sketch: fine bow, flat hardtop, U-shaped seating at the stern. The sketch fixed the silhouette. The open question for Rhino was how hull and deck meet without a visible break.

Marker concept sketch of a sleek motorboat with cockpit seating and hardtop — My marker sketch that set the silhouette.

Process: Rhino surfacing

I set up four viewports (top, perspective, front, right) with the proportions at 1:35 to work more easily in Rhino. Hull and deck are modelled as one continuous metallic surface, not a deck placed on a hull. The isocurve view shows how the surfaces flow into each other. Seats and helm chair sit inside the model, so the wireframe shows the cockpit layout too.

Rhino four-viewport screenshot showing top, perspective, front and right wireframe of the boat with a 1:35 scale note — Four viewports in Rhino. Proportions at 1:35.

Side view in Rhino of hull surfaces with isocurves and internal seating and helm — Side view with surface isocurves. Seating and helm chair are modelled inside.

Rhino shaded perspective of the hull and deck with visible surface isocurves — Shaded view with isocurves left on.

Early studio render of the boat stern with V monogram hatch and two dark appendages — Early studio render of the stern, before materials.

Renders

Every render comes from the Rhino model. Most use a clean studio backdrop to show side, aerial, stern and top views: a V monogram hatch and a teak-look swim platform at the stern. Inside, the helm has a wooden wheel and the lounge has tan leather seats.

Silver speedboat three-quarter view on a neutral studio background — Front three-quarter view of the final model.

Side profile.

Elevated three-quarter view of the yacht on white — Elevated view from the stern.

Wood-rimmed steering wheel at the helm with Venice outside — Helm with a wooden steering wheel.

Tan leather seating inside the yacht cockpit — Tan leather lounge seats.

Rear detail of the yacht with red seats on a grey studio backdrop — Stern with the V monogram hatch.

Stern deck with brown seats and teak platform in studio light — Stern deck, seats and teak-look platform.

Top view of the yacht on white — Top view.

Helm and lounge renders are composited over a photo backdrop.

In motion

Four short clips, animated with Google Veo from my renders: a sunset cruise, the boat planing past a cove, an aerial of the stern and a top-down pull-back. The movement is AI-generated, so it shows mood and speed, not engineering. The model and renders are mine.

Animated with Google Veo from my renders. AI-generated; small Veo watermark, no sound.

Sunset cruise, side view.

Planing fast past a pine cove.

Aerial view of stern, deck and seats.

Top-down pull-back over turquoise water.

3D model

This is the Rhino model itself, converted to glTF. Orbit it, zoom in and check how hull and deck meet.

Render of the motor yacht, front three-quarter view

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What this shows

CAD surfacing: building a large, smooth, single-skin form in Rhino and keeping it coherent across all four views at once. It is a surface-modelling project, with no drawing sheets or assembly study. Those are in the faucet and technical drawing projects. The animations are AI-made from my renders and are not part of the design work.