Ash Thorp and Carlos Pecino are two coachbuilders in the automotive world that you have never heard of. Their unique brand of customization and artistry is performed under the nomenclature Make.Haste.Corp. As M.H.C., Thorp and Pecino have already turned out six brutal customs this year alone. But there’s only one catch: these lust-worthy, one-off creations are being built without setting foot in a single garage. Thorp and Pecino are two of the top CG artists in the world, and M.H.C. is the digital incarnation of their dream garage.
Thorp is an award-winning illustrator and CG artist who has worked on multiple major motion pictures and is even the designer behind the new Batmobile for the upcoming film The Batman. Pecino, aka Colorsponge, is a self-taught 3D artist living in London, hailing from Spain. He has worked extensively in the advertising industry, including with the prolific Recom Farmhouse and INK.
As M.H.C., Thorp and Pecino have challenged themselves — and each other — to conceive, design, and render 24 one-of-a-kind automobiles in one year. “We are pushing one another to build and create our dream cars,” says Thorp, “and by doing so we are helping and teaching one another our trade and skills to further our development as creatives and foster a new way of building our creations.”
Inspired by the cars they grew up admiring, each is meticulously considered — from chassis modifications to aerodynamics, with as much purpose and care as would be applied to any physical build. Both Thorp and Pecino come from backgrounds in automotive customization and combine real-world mechanical knowledge with their digital tool chests through software such as Cinema 4D, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Corona Renderer.
“Honestly I have many personal goals with these,” says Thorp. “One of them is to show people that are not into cars, trucks, or automotive that it’s art, and one of the highest levels of art and expression. And second, to make people rethink what they thought about certain things.”
One such notion: is it as enjoyable to admire a purely digital automotive creation as it is to admire a real-world supercar one may only see in the pages of a magazine or on the internet? If you’ve never seen a Singer Porsche or a Bugatti Veyron, does that take away from what they inspire? With the lines of the digital and physical world blurring more every day, Make.Haste.Corp is one more step toward eviscerating the barrier between dreams and reality for the next generation of automotive enthusiasts.