Kleeman Cl 60

[Erik_S]

That is Hot! I love it , especially with the red interior! But i have to agree with what's said above. Keep it up!

[younglion]

after hundreds of test renders heres something new i was trying to light this thing just with lights and no light planes, which proved to be a bit difficult, i like the light on the glass but it gave some weird looking reflections on the trunk area...but im here to get some fresh eyes on this so crit away.

[helicase]

Looks pretty good! just a couple of things....

Car Paint: Seems a little to black, maybe make the diffuse 10, 10, 10 or something higher if that's the current value.

Studio: Seems a bit dark, i suggest making it a little lighter.

Question: did you get those highlights by putting a very bright vray light facing a dark plane? Or myabe just a well placed light plain. I did that and got decent results, i had a problem where it looks like yours a little bit, but i never took it any further.

Hope that helps.

http://www.imagecows.com/uploads/431..._SL_top-up.jpg

maybe mess around w/ styles like that, or maybe not as light. Just an idea.

[sergo]

u can make it a little bit more complicated
obviously the glass is highlited pretty good apart from the body which is highlighted just .. not right
if u ask me I'd do 3 different highlight sources for glass/body/wheels - excluding from illumination other ones (if glass highlighted by light set 1 body and wheels excluded and etc.) gives u more control and precision, nevertheless u'll need to try and match the light as closely as possible in order not to make render look "fake"

[Erik_S]

Hmm i really like the atmposphere, very realistic. Can you give us some more information about this setup? Do you use spotlights with vrayshadows? And i love the reflections on the glass, but you are right about the trunk area.

To get to sergo's point, you can exclude object from a light source, so you can delete the trunk area from the light and use another light for that area. I just never did that because of the complexity it brings.

Good luck with it, and maybe try to make the car paint to be a bit more metallic.

[younglion]

Originally Posted by helicase

Looks pretty good! just a couple of things....

Car Paint: Seems a little to black, maybe make the diffuse 10, 10, 10 or something higher if that's the current value.

Studio: Seems a bit dark, i suggest making it a little lighter.

Question: did you get those highlights by putting a very bright vray light facing a dark plane? Or myabe just a well placed light plain. I did that and got decent results, i had a problem where it looks like yours a little bit, but i never took it any further.

Hope that helps.

http://www.imagecows.com/uploads/431..._SL_top-up.jpg

maybe mess around w/ styles like that, or maybe not as light. Just an idea.

most of the things you mentioned are personal preferences i like this dark studio style the paint colour i was going for was some what of a chracoal/dark grey. i use maya and my renderer is mental ray and like i said earlier i used only lights no planes or anything else. thanks for the comments.

Originally Posted by sergo

u can make it a little bit more complicated
obviously the glass is highlited pretty good apart from the body which is highlighted just .. not right
if u ask me I'd do 3 different highlight sources for glass/body/wheels - excluding from illumination other ones (if glass highlighted by light set 1 body and wheels excluded and etc.) gives u more control and precision, nevertheless u'll need to try and match the light as closely as possible in order not to make render look "fake"

thanks yea i actually didnt think about using light linking ill try that for my next set of render tests

Originally Posted by Erik_S

Hmm i really like the atmposphere, very realistic. Can you give us some more information about this setup? Do you use spotlights with vrayshadows? And i love the reflections on the glass, but you are right about the trunk area.

To get to sergo's point, you can exclude object from a light source, so you can delete the trunk area from the light and use another light for that area. I just never did that because of the complexity it brings.

Good luck with it, and maybe try to make the car paint to be a bit more metallic.

well for the scene, none of the lights are directly illuminating the car, they are all being bounce from a dome to give it a diffused look, and nope theres no vray here just maya and mental ray, i might post a screen shot of how the setup looks like.