The Making of Hotrod

2. Environment

I wanted a city environment for the car, but not a high-tech metropolis or something, but a bit older, just like Budapest, the capitol of Hungary. So after a few walks in the city I built up the houses from real basic objects. Almost the whole environment was created with only boxes, cylinders and spheres with a little modification. Here the textures were much more important than the geometry, which I created with the help of the TotalTextures V1’s and V2’s content.

Lighting:

There are two lights in the scene, a vray Dome-light and a Target Direct Light. Becouse I couldn’t find a good HDR image for this scene, I used a normal panoramic jpg picture for the dome light. I gave the Direct-light a light orange color, in order to simulate sunlight. GI wasn’t used for this scene.

3. Postworks

First I put another sky behind the scene. I had to improve the trees in the background becouse they were barely visible, so with a simple brush I drew over them. I used a Sharpen filter to make the picture sharper, after this came a little color- and contrast correction. A few detail were added after rendering too – for example the dirt on the window-shutters, the highlights on chromic surfaces or some stains on the big wall behind the car.

After adding a very little noise and blurred lines to improve photo-feeling the picture was finished.