Sauber Mercedes C9

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Oh thanks man, I really apreciate your words. About the renders and shaders I guess is a good thing you didn't notice any big diference; I was trying to get a nice lighting arrangement, and as I was feeling I didn't have one with mentalray I tried with vray. I can conclude it is not a render engine knowledge problem but a proper scene setup.

About the aparent lack of responses, I apreciate your concern, but it may be because many reasons. One of them I think is that not many people knows or like this type of car; other reason, and for sure the most probable is this is a huge forum, with many CG related topics, and not all the time people are doing the same things. While some are searching/uploading blueprints, other may be watching similar cars to get any tip or clue.

I myself are a not very common poster, I promise I'll try to reach the best equilibrium in what I got from this site (a lot!) and what I can give in return.

Anyway I feel very confortable and encouraged by the posts people have shared in this wip, some of wich have been very helpufull.

@ The Ic: we where writing at the same time, but your post came firts!. I have just saw your C9 it is awesome. You have plenty of details there, I liked very much the interior you did (cockpit + front); also the engine was in an advanced stage. You can bet I'll be inspired by your thread man, thanks for pointing it. I wonder why you say you didn't finishedt it? It looks prety complete to me (unless you are talking about engine?)

Thanks again, Joe.

[Silent][Moebius]

some nice work here, incredibly smooth. though you should but some work into the body/paint material it looks like plastic, the reflections are too soft on it imo.

nevertheless keep up the good work.

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Hey, long time since my last post here!

Due my continous failure doing a good studio render with this car, I tried an exterior one.

I used a background of a huge free cg highway found on the web (that's why you can see the uper-right credits). Anyway just a test, no decals, no blur.

I think this car looks better out on the road than into a studio room

Cheers, Joe.

[Poltavskiy]

now that is a pure hot render man. This really make things interesting. The way i see it, if you can pull of a composition than that is way better than a simple studio.

[pedro.malheiro]

thats a render looks realy good... great work

[LOST]

It looks amazing. Very good model and great realistic render. Excellent job!

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Thanks so much guys for those kind comments, really very much apreciated.

I'm trying to find (or in the worse model myself) a nice and sharp looking highway, but surprisingly they are hard to find (that's my way to ask if anybody knows a site with good looking roads )

Thanks all, Joe.

[Icekid84]

I may be wrong, but I think you'll have a hard time to top that highway scene. I love the monochrome feel it has. I could easily see that in a photobook. Its really top I myself need to learn how to do exterior renders on top of photos (need a tutorial though)

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Thanks a lot Icekid84

Another studio render try (mental ray)

Cheers, Joe.

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Another shoot, biger resolution.

Cheers, Joe!