Explorer

Edited: 4/26/2006 8:50:22 PM by lowblackdak

Edited: 4/26/2006 8:49:57 PM by lowblackdak

Well here is my latest. I havent been on in a while. I cant get the flames to look real i tried setting them as overlay but they basically dissapeared when i did that. Anyone have suggestions to make them look more real?





And this one is my first attempt at airbrushing. I just tried a simple body kit. Turned out ok but it needs work.

also everythign seems to show up more faded or washed out, i guess you could say, on my Mac. Im nto sure why. When i look at these images on my PC they are a lot brighter. So i apologize for that. I always seem to have this problem. Nothing looks like it does after i host compared to in photoshop when im doing the work.

i don't think its bad though i would keep up the practice personally you aren't terrible

u might wanna get into your preferences and mess with your screen settings. Macs are actually better at displaying colors, they are more consistent with each other when it comes to showing colors. U get on 2 PCs the colors will look different, get on 2 macs then they should look the same unless u fucked with the settings.

But the renderings look good, but the side of the Exp is washed out to begin with because the sun is hitting it directly. Try getting a picture with some good lighting and a lil more definition...

Ill try next time thats just all my buddy had and i told him id do the job for him. From now on im gonna just use images offline. Does anyone know what happened to highdefautoimages.com or whatever that site was. See now teh one problem im confused on is with my laptop the color looked great when i was workign on it in photoshop. but as soon as i went and hosted it in photobucket it looked crappy to me.

fuck macs

Edited: 4/28/2006 10:02:15 AM by lowblackdak

And why do u say that? Im glad you had good input on the render though. I can also assume u have never used a Mac. or you have only used the shitty ones at school when u were a kid

excuse me for being an asshole. as for the rendering, the problem you are having with the flames is the resolution, i suggest going into illustrator and using a vector to create the pattern then bringing them into ps, that would help you out, the other reason they dont look real is the shadow, it is to dark and to broad, try making it smaller and less opaic, this would help get rid of the floating effect you have going on. on to the rims, the front looks nice and the rear looks very flat, you can fix this by creating a wider lip, which would give it more depth and would create more of a 3d looking wheel that feels ore natural, also stayaway from the black background under the car, it makes it look photohopped, try a realistic type ground or something that is a lighter color, black also makes it look like your rims dont have tires, and lastly on the explorer, get rid of the blue in the passenger side window and you also lost the fender line where the flame starts by the corner light, as for the impoprt car, its a nice attempt at airbrushing, with a little practice i see your work turning out great, the carbon looks very choppy and fake like, and lastly the grille over the intercooler really creates a flat look so i would lose that as well, however the body kit turned out descent and the side skirts look pretty good, the reason i dont like macs is because they cannot process high end 3d rendering/modeling packages, and also struggle with handling game engines such as unreal, oblivion, and so on, now maybe my opinion is biased because i am a game modeler and i desing levels for a liveing and only work on PC, probably because mac is not used in this industry but for simple video editing, thats about all they are used for,m if at all, so maybe next time i will say "fuck macs when it comes to the game/movie industry." lastly, thanks for allowing me to ellaborate on your comments, and yes i have used plenty of macintosh computers, all of which im sure have the most rescent and most advanced capabilities, which im not sure you have even used, so take it easy.

well you can run widows on them now too lol so i say they are better since u get the best of both worlds

haha those macs with the intel processors are crappy... i prefer my pc over it.. i know the color and stuff is better on them.. but.. i really dont care