Cgtuts+ Workshop #22 First Car Render
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Cgtuts+ Workshop #22 First Car Render

on Aug 8th 2012 with 9 comments

We’re back with another entry in our weekly community project, where we post a render or animation created by a member of the Cgtuts+ community, and ask you to provide feedback and constructive criticism on their work. It’s a great way to learn more about the intricacies of computer graphics, express your viewpoint, and have your own content critiqued by your fellow artists!

Quick Ground Rules

  • Be nice! We’ve deliberately chosen work that isn’t perfect, so please be constructive with any criticism.
  • Feel free to offer any type of advice on – Modeling, Texturing, Materials, Lighting, Rendering, Composition, etc.
  • You can also link to another render that you feel offers a great example of this type of content done exceptionally well.

So let’s get to it, here’s this week’s entry created by Dries Lamberechts!

First Car Render

Cgtuts+ Car Render critiqueClick To Enlarge

A Little Background

My first car done in 3ds Max. It was my final assignment in school this year. I like the fact that the car paint really looks nice and realistic, and I think I’ve done a good job placing the car on the background. It’s rendered using Mental Ray by the way. Please offer critiques on the whole image. I really want to get better at this.

P.S.: My site could be offline because I’m currently building it.

Also be sure to check out more of Dries’s work on his Website
Please let us know what you think in the comments – how would you have approached this project or done things differently? Any thoughts on how it could be improved or taken to the next level. Chime in below!

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Ben is one half (literally) of the editor duo here at Cgtuts+. Ben has over eight years of experience in the computer graphics field and although he's primarily a hard surface modeler, he's also experienced in the fields of uvmapping, texturing, lighting and rendering. He has authored many tutorials and training materials focused on 3d Studio Max and hard surface modeling. You can check out Ben's website at bentateonline.com to see more of his work.  

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  • http://www.blackbluebrown.com geoff brown

    It looks good, nice composite. A couple of notes for improvement:

    - overall, the car is too dark, you should work on matching the light and exposure of your back-plate.
    - a better crop job would help place more focus on the car. Currently, the shadow is being cut off. There’s too much of the background compared to the car.
    - the glass doesn’t look very convincing. There should be more reflection and refraction. Maybe make the glass thicker and less transparent. Curved glass should distort the background.

    I think you’ve done a good job, but with a few tweaks, you could easily make this shot look more realistic.
    Keep at it.

    • Dries Lamberechts

      Hi Geoff,
      thanks for the comment. I’ll look into it and apply what you said.

  • Águas

    Well, I’m a noobie, so don’t take my opinion to serious, but I really like the whole image. I would just point out two things:
    - the car should have more grain to it, to match the rest of the image grain, as it seems too “clean”
    - some edges on the car have flaws, in white (only saw it on full-size image though)

    Keep up the good work =)

  • Alan

    With regards to the realism of the render – the car is too dark compared to the environment so you really need to tweak that lighting. Maybe just bump up the radiosity levels? The shadows look fine to me so light positioning is good – it’s just light properties you’d need to be concerned with. Also the surfaces of the car require a fair bit of tweaking if you’re going for realism.

    With regards to the composition itself – it needs some tweaking as well. Composing a shot properly really adds to the overall realism and although your choice of background image will impose some constraints on your composition there’s still a lot you can do to frame your subject matter appropriately. All in all though – for a first render this is great work. a BIG thumbs up from me. I hope you can improve on it and wish you good luck :)

  • http://create3dgames.wordpress.com Elijah

    Very nice, overall. However, the car and the building are a bit too clean. Realistically, they should be a bit dirtier. The car should have a few small scratches and the building should have a bit of grunge on it.
    I can tell that you used few textures in this model, if any. I can see you probably used just materials. I think you should add some textures to the car for extra realism. That’s my opinion.

  • Gerard Emmen

    Try to make it less perfect. Do some lens-tweaks in photoshop (reversed lens corrections). Add chromatic aberration, blur the render 1 or 2 pixels, add a little lens-morph and try to match the noise with the photo. The low anti-aliasing makes the result also less realistic. Higher the amount of anti-aliasing or an other easy solution is to double the output size and scale it down to 50% in compositing. Hope it helps!

  • kikkeli

    as a compositors point of wiew its allmost horrible to see the noise of the bg plate completely misssing from your car. and the glass, i agree with geof brown.

    couple of little things and you can push it really much to realistic direction!

  • http://www.timtaylorart.com Kernit the Font

    lAl the points above, plus the ground shadow is too sharp for what looks like a pre-dusk/dusk back plate. I think the strength is right, but the edges could do with being more diffused. Hope that helps! Good work.

  • AG

    Nice render!
    some things that i caught:

    -I think the rims could use a bit more texture, and maybe some dirt/dust
    -The roof inside of the car has the same color as the outside, most cars have a different color for the interior.