Black 2009 Camaro

[alesxander]

Bumblebee inspired Camaro composited into real background. Modeled and rendered in LW 9.6.

Regards from Costa Rica :)

alesxander
http://alesxander.com

[lwanmtr]

The model looks really nice.

But it doesnt quite look like it's part of the scene. There is a shadow from a tree (i assume) that should be hitting on the back of the car, and the shadow under the car is too even, and not quite right.

Did you use hdr lighting in the scene at all?

[alesxander]

no, it use only one area light and one sphere for the reflections

[lwanmtr]

you might try changing to a distant light, get rid of the spherical light. you could try also using the background image as an hdr via Image World..you can adjust the brightness, etc.. put a plane under the car and use front projection on the color channel and set the alpha to shadow density (that way you can get the actual shadow of the car and can import the final render into photoshop.

[Cougar12dk]

Also, set the light lower than it is now, so you get the same long shadows as the other cars in the background.

[tyrok1]

Excellent model!

But, if I may add something, the background looks stretched horizontally while the car looks correct, which appears to throw off the perspective.

[DiM]

I don't fan to this render, the compositing picture isn't correct (perspective problem, the car look stop, to clean, etc..)
else the model is good I think

[alesxander]

I'm trying to improve it with your comments :)

[Sarford]

Hi Alexander, nice start mate!

Some good comments above. Most objects in the real world have a fall-off on the reflection, that means that the reflection is stronger at glancing angles that at facing angles. You might wanna try that on your car shader, (or if you already have it on make it stronger) I feel that the sides of the car reflect too much.

Also, there seems to be a little gap between the front windshield and the car body.

[byte_fx]

First of all I like the model and the image.

However the image does raise some questions.

What is actually happening? Is the car supposed to parked? If so it seems to be too far away from the verge.

If in motion then where is the driver? And maybe a hint of motion blur. Wouldn't need much as the lighting would allow a fast shutter and the road would probably have a relatively low speed limit. A driver would be mostly in silhouette so wouldn't need to be super detailed.

[Lewis]

Hi alesxander !

it's very good start and you just need to tweak little bit (as already suggested) and it'll be nice. I'd also suggest different car color to empathize car shape little more, this way is very dark so nice car model lines aren't visible :).