one of my first done

c & c please
original:

chopped:

Edited: 9/15/2005 10:51:44 AM by eyekandydesigns

Not bad for a first finished chop. Some comments would be the color of the windshield seems to throw a lot of the rendering off cause they are not working with the background, add some brakes to give more realism to the wheels, also a drop shadow on the top part of the rims to give the wheel well some depth and watch out for the reflection of the chrome front bumper (it is showing the ground as dirt). Also try to keep/put in the door lines for some extra detail. Just some helpful advice, good job though. -rj

thanks rj im sure i can desaturate the windsheild and tweek the color but what do i do about the chrome in the bumper?

here it is with the windeshield fixed:

Thats a little bit more tricky, and really I can't give you a direct answer, you just have to play with it, basically I you can make it look more like one color without all the black dots from the reflection, maybe try overlaying a grey to white gradient over it - just play around with it, It probably can't be achieved by just one step but several that work together. -rj

ya thats not that bad for a first... good job

i would like to see some other people that like do this for a living tell me what i did wrong this is my first i hear a lot of good jobs but nothing about how i can improve

well your rear bumper is wrong.. the pic of the billet insert you started with was too small (no definition)... your shaddow is off and doesnt have the shape of the truck reflected on a flat plane... in my opinion the graphic on the side is not skewed correctly (it would be larger at the front and smaller in the rear not flat across; i.e. perspective) and cant see the door jam thur the graphic... and im not feeling the shape of the front wheel... for a first one its not as bad as many i have see, but i doubt ppl who do this for a livin (or close) have the time to teach you how to do it....

finally thank you however, not sure how the rear bumper is off because i didn't touch it, i actually started with a larger piece of billet, i know what you mean with the shadow its my firsst time doing one, and i see that on the graphic now too