Testdrive with the new car

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hello boys(&girls?) …

can you give some comments on improving me…

this is all cycles rendered

as I’m not a good vertex guy - so the carmodel is not made by me,
it’s from “shimmy” from his google sketchup site.

I cleaned it up to make it look good in blender,
also I setted the smooth/sharp things and new materials and light…

also I have to say that the city in the last picture is loaded “daz”,
I imported it into blender… with mmm whatsthename ah: “mjcteleblender”
needed some tweaking on material to look good bat basically was fine…
the sky there is made with a (nearly) procedural, expect of the basic sun hdri which I’ve made in “HDRISkyGenerator” a really nice tool imo

what do you think?

citylight.jpg1920×1080 163 KB

studio2.2.jpg1920×1080 153 KB

sunlight.jpg1920×1080 316 KB

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Cool. I think the rear lights on the second picture are missing glossiness and they don’t cast reflections.

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The first one looks fine, just not my style, but the other two! great renders!

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oh, ok thanks, I’ve not expected that you’ll like them :wink:
and yes, I also thought that the backlights look kinda strange, I’ll look at them closely :wink:

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The first one, you went overboard with DOF, and made the car look like a toy. Lower the DOW and it should make it more believable.
2nd is a good studio render, but the model it self looks low detailed (around the tail lights), but that is not you… though i think the lighting may play a part in making it look a bit strange…
3rd render looks like its a in game screenshot of some racing game…cool

What is the purpose of this though? - Just to practice rendering/lighting.composition and whatnot?

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okay, yes - indeed it’s for practicing - rendering, lighting and stuff…
is there a tutorial or a basic trick on how to make the headlights more realistic, with a tekture on (in) it …

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My favorite is the second studio-type render. It seems like there are a few areas that are blurry that shouldn’t be though.

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^^ you see them :wink:
that’s exciting… yes I quick blurred some parts because of noise, with photoshop, next render will be better :wink: