MentalRay Rendering

Using the user_ibl_env shader node to my advantage for lighting the environment. For the final film I don't want my hdr to give reflections but instead just light up the scene with its colours. Just testing it with reflections now.

For the shaders I am using both the mila and mia shaders to my advantage. Only thing is that I don't know if the mila shaders will work in all the render passes. I came across some information online claiming the mila shaders currently don't work in all the render passses. Maybe it was a mistake using them but I needed something quick. Reason I used some of the MIA shaders was because I'm just an old dinasour and cbs learning and testing new shaders. Easier and faster to use what I already know...

I'm enjoying it but I can see some thing in my modelling that throws of little details here and there. Oh well at least its all mediocre and its easy to understand the concept of the real life vehicle.

4 more cars left to place shaders on. I won't texture them cause it'll cost too much time and I really need to start render farming really soon...

optimization

So I've unwrapped the tire for texturing. Instead of polygon modelling the treads I decided to have a normal map in its place to save time rendering too many tris. Can't really see much and I may need to use a bump map instead for a stronger effect.

rollback....

well... not everything runs smoothly in a project. I'm just gonna go back home and open up a rollback and re rig this vehicle. For some reason when I scale it down the back wheels pop up.... I've also had the same issue with my bugatti so I gotta red them both and figure out whats wrong...

playblast

Cause... eveything looks better in motionblur... I'll be test rendering with motionblur and an ibl.

WIP

5 weeks untill my final animation. Currently working on one of my shots atm and I'm glad this one is only 21 million tris. one thing I'd like to know though is how do I navigate the viewport with a better framerate with shaded on?

optimizing

Low poly tactic. Staying away from subdivision.

scenes!

Some nice screenshots of my project so far. For some reason when I turn on the textures in the viewport it final displays the normals and bump maps...
I have an estimate of 6 scenes left to turn into photoreal XD

Rocks!

Rocks!!!

Optimization

Car reflection wonkiness

showing how the light bends on my wonky surfaces... need to get better in my class A surfacing.

zbrush sculpts...

Here is a test render of the snow on the rocks.

All thats left is the road to texture

cliff

Replaced the low poly rocks with high poly rocks. They will then be rendered with a bump map and a normal map.

more stuff...