Muscle by chrispoole
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Hi all,
Many many thanks for the previous favs, comments and crits on Katana, I really appreciate the support.
This is for those of you who don't like motorbikes and appreciate a bit of muscle.
I'm just having some fun with the whole HDRI lighting thing and different methods of implementing it.
I wouldn't consider these finished normally but feel they look good enough.
This differs from Katana in the fact, it's not a true HDRI render.
It uses an HDRI probe I made and a photo wrapped on a sphere, with Vue grass for the base.
I couldn't decide which one I liked best so here's a selection.
Credits:
The superb Muscle car is a freebie from Anders Lejczak (bazze) over @ http://www.colacola.se/map_1.htm
The sky is the cracking BountifulKnights BK_KnightSky360 available here @ Rendo.
The Grass is Linda Daireaux's wonderful Incredibly Lush Grassy Places! over @ http://www.cornucopia3d.com
All the best and I hope you like them.
Chris

Comments (45)
fantastic realism mate!
Great lighting, you're way ahead of me on the HDRI track. The car looks great. As an audience member, one aspect of most of the high-end rendering that doesn't delight me as much is that I get the feeling like the subject is always in shadow, there is no direct lighting and so the featured object feels less important. In that respect, the three renders you've got here look really great and have a bit more 'ooomph' in the lumenins department. Look forward to future such experiments.
Very good work.
Superb realism - nice technical piece.
They all look awesome! I love the lighting and POV! Great scenes and renders.
Wow... those are very realistic!!
you did a very clean work here!
Great realism. Very well done.
Wow!
Superb realism, first class work.
Fine work Chipp!
Fantastic realism! Personally I prefer the third version but that is a matter of taste! Well done!!
Hey- no joke here, no exaggeration- I opened this image up and thought I was looking at three photographs processed with different effects in Photoshop- I didn't even think of a 3D application as having rendered this- so.. you are onto something big my friend! This looks damn good and damned REAL!!
The second one is my favourite, the setting look more natural, shadows are softer, and the reflections are nicer. Excellent work in realism.
This is just absolutely brilliant use of spheres! Amazing realism.One of,if not the realist Vue render i have seen in my time here.
Beautiful renders!
A bikini-beauty is somehow missing but nevertheless I think this image is great!! Again: lifelike lighting!
Chris this is amazing and looks so real it is unbelievable that it is not a photo, superb job!!!
Awesome!!!I thought they were photos,great!!!:-)
I agree, they're all wonderful. The lighting looks super!
I think they all look great renders but my favourite would be the centre one :)
superb work
Excellent!
Top marks on realism Chris, my pick of the series would be the centre one, the whole scene oozes realism. Love that car. Excellent work mate! Did you see that Vauxhall Viva conversion on telly last week...9.4 litre engine, automatic gearbox, 0 to 60 in ONE second! and faster than Bugatti's latest showpiece!! I had a Viva years ago, a blacktop and that was some motor, never done 0 to 60 though lol!
I like the middle one :) Very nice work.
Quite interesting, and very well done!
Shades of Grind House's "Death Proof" Long HDRI Render times I'll bet!
A perfect example of realism with HDRI. Superb work Chris, incredibly realistic, the light is just right, it's not overdone & those reflections are spot on. Great choice of car & POV's!
Hello my dear friend,That marvelous work!, really excellent, master your style, the light, all!! A million stars ***** Thank you very much for your commentaries. Sorry to have that to write the same thing in English to all, but are few the words that I have in English to say. Have a marvelous Wednesday.Hug and kiss in your heart.Luminous blessings.Ludy.
These all look so real! I've been sitting here comparing them for a long time. Love the different reflections on the cars.