Is this OK for Desktop ?

[sarfarazsoomro]

oh mannnnnnnnn
thats great
Really really really great........five stars:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Viper]

Awsome dude! I am going to download that anim and get back to you :)

[mebamonster]

wow! that's beautiful! Not much else i can say...just keep doing what you're doing!

[Viper]

The anim rockz!!!

[Pinky_Powers]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:buttrock: My, my, my! That is truly perfect looing!!!! GREAT render!!! Perfect lighting, and the model is, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup: You rock my friend, you truly rock.

[lildragon]

excellent ride, I'm not a huge cg car fan, but when I see one of this quality I must show my appreciation, :applause: excellent!!!

[chesky Wang]

Wow~Cool Maserati and nice render works. I like this car,
when you see it and touch it, you will full of crazy driving .
:eek:

[JoBbE]

impressive :thumbsup:

I hope you don't mind it's on my desktop now :)

[pinnner]

that is a solid looking car :) very sweet. i like the pace of the animation. what program/renderer did u use?

[Chappo]

TRULY AWESOME MASERATI !!!!!!!!!!!

AAAarrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhh

nice rendering - lighting

Wat software did u use ??????

[aYs]

f***ing great model :bounce:
it's on my desktop too

i remember the A4 from 2001
you've really improved your skills extremely

keep it up

bye

[AstroMek]

I'm far from a car-person (I walk or bike if I'm going somewhere) but THAT's some reallyreallyreally nice piece of rendering!!! :applause:

[Teckniel]

wow very nice m8 can we see some wireframes and what program u used????

[DeViSoR]

Great work as allways Lewis... :cool: :cool:

hmmm whats wrong with the avi.. it's upside down.. :shrug:

[skyracer]

GRRRREAT!:bounce:
And I'm actually trying your Ford Mustang tutorial at LWG, which is another great.

[Lewis3D]

Thank you all guys - realy great comments what willkeep me going to improve more of my skils :)

Modeling and Rendering in LightWave.

ays - yes A4 was my firs CAR model and I've made some bigginers mistakes (too mayn polygons and so..) back then but now i try to made just necesayr polys :)

JoBdE - no idon't mind, actualy I'am honored by that :).

I will show you some wires later today :)

[halo]

nice....:)

i would like to see the avi but this happened :(

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Apache/1.3.22 Server at www.lewis.tomsoft.hr Port 80

looks like cgtalks blown another transfer limit:sad:

[Lewis3D]

Sorry guys but "visitors" are "sucked" 2GB of bandwith in 10 hours :)). Now I'am temporary offline due monday or sunday afternoon because I have 2,5GB monthly bandwith but I didn't expect so many visitors in few hours :)

I will try to find new location for AVI so that you all can see it :)

Thanks

[Lewis3D]

Huhh guys i just manage to get back my site runing :)

I had 262 doownloads of Maserati animation in one day and more than 100 visits in few hours. That was sucked all my bandwith but now it's agin online (don't know how long if visitors continue on such great response :).

Thanks guys and you can see/dload animation now if you have time but please teake it easy "one at time" ;).

[Pegasus]

I like the reflections and glossy look.

Perfect for car visualization!

Good JoB! :thumbsup:

[stephen2002]

that is a very realistic render. Every time I see one of these, it makes me want to learn LW even more. Must get around to doing that.

So many of these great cars are put into a white room with just the car. Maby try some environment for your next render?

I would really like to see a higher quality AVI file. I only have 56K, but it would be worth the time.

Great work!

[Bjolletts]

O yes ....

Excellent work ... a great study of one of the best looking cars in production today.

This deserves a total score of .... five jumping dudes :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

/ Bjolletts

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by stephen2002
that is a very realistic render. Every time I see one of these, it makes me want to learn LW even more. Must get around to doing that.

So many of these great cars are put into a white room with just the car. Maby try some environment for your next render?

I would really like to see a higher quality AVI file. I only have 56K, but it would be worth the time.

Great work!

Yes stephen2002 I would also like to put this car in some realy nice enviromnet BUT i don't have time to model everything :). You need total 360degree enviromnet to achive that nice reflections on whole car (no cheating to put evniro just behing camera angle :)). But in present time i don't have time for such job because this is only my free time hoby. I'am searching some good company who will maybe offer me CGI job :). I work by night when I should spleep :) beacuse moust of day I'am not at home or I'am on my work.

Thanks for nice words.

[Larry_g1s]

:xtreme: Unbelivable! If I wasn't on a CG board, I would have believed it was CG. ;) Great work!

[dmcgrath]

Lewis, You have done an incredible job. As for a critique, the only question I can ask is if you modeled exactly to scale on everything. It isn't a big problem, but the disc brakes look too large. Are they really that big? I am not familiar with the specs on newer Maseratis. Its just that I used to work on cars and things like that will catch my eye. Sorry for sucking away all your bandwidth.
In my MAYA modeling class I'm taking, I'm going to show this to everyone, including my teacher. But Ill put it on a disc, so we dont have to go to your site and trash the place.

Thanks for the inspiration, heres the car I'm going to bulid over the next month.
I will probably need your help, and advice, as we are using polys also.

[Lewis3D]

Juggernaut - that's good to know.

dmcgrath - I'am not sure are brae discs exactly that BIG because i can't see them on blueprints. I have many small reference images and FEW bigger but moustly from wierd camera angles (interesting angles). So that i can't tell you ist that 100% correct size but it look's to me that tey are pretty BIG :). Afterall this car go very fast so hee need good and big brakes ;).

BTW I can help you if you need help in modeling beacuse I wrote Interactive CAR Tutorial for modeling Ford Mustnag Cobra in LW But I belive that pretty big part can be applied to any good SW (like XSI, Maya,MAX, rhino C4d..).

And now you can download animation as many as you want beacuse now i redirected link for animation. My site is back online and bandwith is trippled than before :).

Thanks to LWGForums who offered me their (firedragon) server for animation so that my page won't be offline every 10 hours ;).
It isn't been problem in surfing to site or looking around my page, but when you get 554 downloads in 2 days on animation wich is 9.6MB then you have problems with bandwith.

[facial]

Very nice and tasty work, I love it.

[xynaria]

This one seems to me to be the best one by far and falling very much into place.. ultra surprised you aren't working in the industry.. have you approached anywhere?????? :)

[viz]

:thumbsup: you are now oficially the artist of preference on my desktop ..
My god .. If I could only model half as well as you .. amazing.

Why don't you make other stuff .. besides cars? (not that I don't love cars - but with your talent and all..)

[bioni]

You are a Genius !!!



:eek: :buttrock: :eek:


Congratulations Great material !

[lyca]

WOW that´s what I call really good modeling.
:buttrock:

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by viz
:thumbsup: you are now oficially the artist of preference on my desktop ..
My god .. If I could only model half as well as you .. amazing.

Why don't you make other stuff .. besides cars? (not that I don't love cars - but with your talent and all..)

Thanks for your trust in my desktop image ;).

BTW for now I have "needs" to make cars but also i love cars (I'am car body repairmen (<--- I hope that's right word on english) and my father paint cars so I'am almoust every day with them ;).

I will make different things eventualy, but dunno when :D.

BTW wireframes will be posted soon (today or tommorow when I choose some angles ;)).

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by xynaria
This one seems to me to be the best one by far and falling very much into place.. ultra surprised you aren't working in the industry.. have you approached anywhere?????? :)

Nope, not jet but I will try after such great response from people who know the difference between CGI and real stuff I might have a chance. Thanks :).

[Lewis3D]

As I promissed here is few wireframe shoots from OGL.

http://www.newtek.com/discus/messages/2/27594.jpg http://www.newtek.com/discus/messages/2/27595.jpg http://www.newtek.com/discus/messages/2/27596.jpg http://www.newtek.com/discus/messages/2/27597.jpg

[Lewis3D]

Another 2 images (why i can't post 6 images at once :))??

http://www.newtek.com/discus/messages/2/27598.jpg http://www.newtek.com/discus/messages/2/27599.jpg

[Fred Heys]

This is one of the nicest car renders I have seen for a long time...nice one

[OrestesMantra]

http://newbie.tscentral.net/images/ImBlownAway.jpg

[DominikSusmel]

Great model dude!

Shadows and highlights are definitively wrong, but those things need compositing skills to perfect anyways, so don't take it to your heart ;)

Nice model, again :)

P.S.
Where in Croatia are you? Getting a job in CG here is non-existent, if you get one, and you're lucky to get paid, you'll end up working on utmost boring underpaid stuff on which you have little or no control. Only 2 options are to either go abroad (which sux), or freelance for foreign suckers (which rox) ;)

[alanMao]

:bounce: :bounce: :buttrock: :bounce:

[bioni]

:buttrock: :eek:

You are the master of Jedi !!!! :)

Hoe did you get the proportions and Measuraments to design the model ?

[Najd]

That what I call a Gooooood Work.
And the animation is just wonderfull.

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by bioni
:buttrock: :eek:

You are the master of Jedi !!!! :)

Hoe did you get the proportions and Measuraments to design the model ?

I modeled him form blueprints so I would dare to say that model size is 99% accurate :).

Thanks

[Andre Silva]

Incredible work Lewis,

Any chance you can post a render of your lighting setup in the scene, as far as placement your lights and reflections and or maybe a description?

Understandable if you wouldn't want too.

Again excellent work.

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by Andre Silva
Incredible work Lewis,

Any chance you can post a render of your lighting setup in the scene, as far as placement your lights and reflections and or maybe a description?

Again excellent work.

Hi Andre !

I would show you my lights setup in scene but I didn't used any lights in this scene :). Everything is lit by HDRI and Radiosity :).

Surface on car have reflection setuped with gradients on incidence angle so that you can get that nice fresnel effect what real car paint have.

[SimonReeves]

Wooow thats great matey

as good as mr.suurland :buttrock:

I'm personnaly mainly a car modeler s[as u can see in my site;) ] o this is some more inspiring stuff

:thumbsup:
keep it up

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by reeves1984

I'm personnaly mainly a car modeler s[as u can see in my site;) ] o this is some more inspiring stuff
:thumbsup:
keep it up

Thanks man, and yes you have really nice cars on your page :)

[AJE]

Ohh YOU'RE the guy who did the kick ass FreeLander....

You've got a real knack for autos..... not seeing anything wrong with the latest.

Only thing I would suggest (and it's minor), is obviously the flawless paint and driven snow white stage give the impression of brand-spanking-new... and that's cool. The part that bugs me just a little bit are the tires... they're pretty good, but the tread seems a little too perfect, and new tires have 'needles' on them...

I think with those that tire would fit the realism that you've achieved with the rest of the car...

Overall... Great work!

JMHO

AJE

[Dzignguy]

Lewis,
I'm an old guy who grew up in the 50's and loved cars and everything about styling and design. Your work is very, very good and way beyond acceptable! I agree about the tires but thats really a small thing! I also agree about possibly adding a scene! I totaly understand about the time and effort required to add such complexity. However, it would make the difference when going for a carrer in the long run...... Just my opinion.

Ever thought about collaborating? There are tons of people out there, I would think, that might be willing to help model the scene in order to build a Kick Ass animation that would catch attention. I'm not on that level yet or I would volunteer. I have just started learning digital 3D art. You have to know that most of the big work done commercially today is not by one person, but mainly a collaboration. I think that's what makes the internet and this kind of forum such a great tool!

Take away the tree and car and the quality of scene work done by Sytron shown towards the top of this forum would be a possible candidate. Give it a thought...............

In any case you have the talent just keep working and be prepared to work.........cause you can get paid to do this!!!!

Cheers!
john

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by Dzignguy
Lewis,
Ever thought about collaborating? There are tons of people out there, I would think, that might be willing to help model the scene in order to build a Kick Ass animation that would catch attention. I'm not on that level yet or I would volunteer. I have just started learning digital 3D art. You have to know that most of the big work done commercially today is not by one person, but mainly a collaboration. I think that's what makes the internet and this kind of forum such a great tool!

In any case you have the talent just keep working and be prepared to work.........cause you can get paid to do this!!!!

Cheers!
john

Thank you very much :).

Acctualy i know all that about BIG projects and that many people works like Team to produce commercials and similar projects for quite time. I made that Maserati by myself for pure practice and pleasure because i love cars (i work with them a lot in real life).

BTW i can compose that Car in some real nature environment because i have all equipment (i work on TV station so i can ask my friends camera man to shoot me some streets and similar stuff). I can compose that on computers in my work where we have all goodies like SW and HW tools (Matrox DigiMix, Pinnacle DV 500, Miro DC30, DPS Reality and much more). But i don't have time for all that becasue this is just my hobby for now. I spend much of my time on my job and whe i get home i model something and my day is almoust over :). Ten sometimes i go to drive my real car (I can't be all the time in closed space in front of monitor ;)).

But i appreciate your help very much and it's realy great to have such great guys on CGI forums :).

[Cadillacs57]

wow, im still shocked with the quality just of the wallpaper, now im still downloading the movie.
congrats in this awesome work :bowdown:

PS: can you do a 1024 x 768 res of the desktop image? :p

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by Cadillacs57
wow, im still shocked with the quality just of the wallpaper, now im still downloading the movie.
congrats in this awesome work :bowdown:

PS: can you do a 1024 x 768 res of the desktop image? :p

You can see/download on my WEB page 1600*1200 version so just resize to your desktop needs :)

[Cadillacs57]

done, is my wallpaper now:beer:

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by Cadillacs57
done, is my wallpaper now:beer:

Hehe :). That's really nice thing to know that some users like my desktop and acctualy USE it :D.

Thanks people you are very kind on words.

[Alderian]

damn thats good.:thumbsup:

[AYHAN]

IT IS BEST !!!!!!!!

:thumbsup: :applause: :applause: :applause: :thumbsup:

[skidd]

caralho!
it's really perfect, god bless you dude! :]
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Mr D]

:buttrock: :wip: :beer: :bounce:

[EighthDecay]

Wow dude,, i just messes in my pants,, ooops

very excellent,, fun to watch over and over and over,, love the music choice also.

[Marley]

ok ... i just came across this thread .... WHAT A CAR !!!

could you please comment on how to achieve such cool reflections? Is it just an environment map? GIVE ME A HINT :bounce:

[Elliotjnewman]

I think what makes this car model look so nice is the composition and simplicity of the layout. The lighting gives it that 'apple mac' quality and expensive feeling that is so suited to that car model. Also your wireframe looks perfect, it looks like you make lots of adjustments to achieve this, I can't see any unnecesary geometry here, tatally echonomic, you would prove to be very valuable to a production company!

superb stuff!

p.s. may I add that I think there should be a fluffy pink bunny rabbit sitting in the drivers seat, just to add to the quality and appeal?

[Lewis3D]

LOL - EighthDecay, oyu must be careful in future ;).

Marley - i just used HDRI image for ighting whole scene (no lights) with radiosity so that HDRI is also reflected on car paint wich uses gradient on reflecting channel. Gradient is set to incidence angle to achive fresnel look like on real car paint :).

Elliotjnewman - thank you very much, also that bunny idea is cool but now its' too late ;).

[derelict]

Phoa! Boy, your image punched me senseless! Holy shmolly Lewis! Whata anim you have there dude!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Ok, now the crit... place a bit of error here and there so it look more CG! People might get confuse into thinking that is a videography, dude! j/k


So, when will you be teaching me? Soon right?:scream:

[killcat]

nice

http://wqwj33.myetang.com/icon14.gif

[say-g]

very sweet car there mate, im 26% thru the avi (gay dialup).

[say-g]

just watched the animation, and whoa man thats some very sweet work.

what system r you running to get 20day render period ?

[Lewis3D]

Thanks say-g :)

I rendered on old Celeron 1Ghz clocked to 1.3GHz but radiosity is "thing" why is last soo long ;). 23 hours daily during 20 days. I wanted radiosity but without radiosity it would be finsihed in 2 days. 2100 frames and fastest frame 10 minutes, slowest 65 minutes (reflections on headlights are killer 'coz lights bouncing of them and passing through glass in front of them and so on :)).

derelict - LOL i dodn't thinked of that "way" ;). So what teaching do you need ?? modeling ? rendering ??

[yobarman]

wow that is the greatest car model i have ever seen in my life. I also made messes in my pants.


I don't know how you do it, but you're a real inspiration for me. Hopefully one day, I'll be as ridiculously good as you.

[PNelson]

Lewis,

Very nice work.. You should submit some renders to the LightWave gallery.. Your quality is definitely up to speed (No pun intended) to be up on our site!

Keep up the awesome work.

See Ya,
Philip Nelson
NewTek

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by PNelson
Lewis,

Very nice work.. You should submit some renders to the LightWave gallery.. Your quality is definitely up to speed (No pun intended) to be up on our site!

Keep up the awesome work.

See Ya,
Philip Nelson
NewTek

Thank you Philip i will send you images.

yobarman - maybe you could try ma Interactive Car Tutorial to see how i made it :)?

[jripper]

Can you give some tips on car paint textures? I have lots of trouble getting that "shiny" look. Maybe some tutorial links? I love that car, unbelievable!:beer:

[Lewis3D]

Originally posted by jripper
Can you give some tips on car paint textures? I have lots of trouble getting that "shiny" look. Maybe some tutorial links? I love that car, unbelievable!:beer:

Hehe, reallly nothing special :). Just normal reflective car paint and only thing wat gives it "real" look are incidence angle gradient on Reflective channel - IMHO. Also everything is lit by HDRI image so that environment get that "moody" look :).

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