Lux Lucis, Chris Thunig (3D)

[erilaz]

See, now this is how cars should be presented! Very well done indeed.

Love the Cary Grant-ish man. :)

[LadyPurple]

So cool! Love this car!

[plastik892]

What a beut. Really excellent piece. Lots of three point movement and it feels very much like an era advertisement illustration. Love to see a higher res version to check out the details.

[everlite]

Great piece of work! love the retro look, reminds me of those old classic billboards when life looked like something out of the Jetsons :)

Can you show us the wires or unshaded scene?

Dave.

[FabioMSilva]

fantastic job chris:) 5 stars

[Kirt]

Finally! A car render to get excited about. Please for the sake of others who are presenting their car renders to the gallery, post some more info, higher res images and other words of advice/inspiration.

I love the classic retro look of this image. I haven't done this in awhile ... but 5 stars for a car render! Well done.

[Rla]

"well done! My friend...I say, How much for the car...?"...lolol well done i love the whole feel of the image and the car is just sweet...keep it up

[Ognyan]

Great style! I am also curious about wires and other details of the scene. Fantastic work!

[Maximiliens]

So cool image!:cool: really like that 60 s style. I'm also curious to see the wire.

[Kevin1981]

Great work

Great style

*****

[mbaldwin]

wow. you made me smile. nicely done.

Taschen/Jim Heimann has a great compendium of ad work from each decade of the 20th century. (http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/icons/all/03267/facts.all_american_ads_60s.htm)

You nailed the splashey optimism of those 60's car ads.

thanks for sharing.

-m.

[ZCtrl]

I normally am not impressed by car renderings, since there are so many damn many of them, but this! wow man, great work. I love that it's not over the top, the futuristic touch is really subdued and makes it a truly great image.

[visionmaster2]

beautifull picture ! great car presentation.

do you have a bigger pict to show us ?

[PhilipR]

Looks Sweet Man.
I really like what you have here. The Grand Prix was such a looker. I like your hover upgrades. Better get a patent for those things...Ha ha. :thumbsup:

[fraherd]

Real fantastic work mate, I would just love to see the straight render to really appreciate your talents in post/matte painting

[TyroneMaddams]

Chris,

As always you impress me! :buttrock:

[kazziu]

Wow what a stunner, five stars.

[trainfender]

it's already in my favorites. 5*

[rasmusW]

not much else to say than... just beautiful.
really impressed by the stuff at your website, aswell.

-r

[ligi]

awesome job mate

great design, render, compo

love the style on it. realy outstanding car render.
5* of course

[mattia242]

great car! :thumbsup:

[PavelPetrenko]

New amazing work! OMG! :thumbsup:

[rohanoka]

This is an awesome concept and execution that i have seen !

[INFINITE]

Wow, superb image! Very retro. Love the stlye.

So whats 3D CG and whats 2D? got any wires? would love to see the process and lighting techniques : )

[svenjorjensen]

waaa.... impressive..... felicidades

[agv]

Outstanding! I agree with what's already been said about how you've captured a great retro look. There's a rich, nostalgic charm to the lighting, and a curiously quirky treatment to the subject and its composition. I'd love to see a higher res version.

It's a delight to see work like this, that steps far outside the norm, yet harnesses imagery that feels distantly familiar.

5*!

[munkY]

Awesome stuff man, higher res by any chance?

[Ammarkk]

Oh ... fantastic work man..... great job .

[artifish]

totally unrealistic.

[Staszek]

I saw it before in portfolio category and i was blast by your imagination and perfect technicue - mix of styles and play of light makes it best.. simply most imresive,

5*, favorites..

[bigbad]

The image is a little to small to see the details. Could we see at least cut outs of the details or a bigger image, please.

[Quadart]

Nice illustration.
I haven’t seen one of those Pontiac flying convertibles since I was a kid way back in the future. :)

[Fahassani]

Cool, the master had shown his_____powers!! :p

[mimo8]

can you tell us something about the "lux lucis" project?
so many great concept drawings in your portfolio but no back info.

also a higher res view of the picture would be great.

thnx

[DUCKORABB]

Oww, it's really like me, remaind me some stuff from Syd Mead art, nice! Very climatic, how You achieve this set of collors, and this warm profile? this is postproduction, or this is directly from Maya renderer? You have some golden mean for this ? Would You show some wireframe stuff, lights etc?

Berst Regs

DCKBB

[gridlocke12]

I saw the image originally in the sample pages of Matte Painting 2. I'm so glad I found the actual thread connected to this image!

Absolutely stunning work! Really sets the mood of that time period, the ambiance, the costumes, the architecture. Beautiful!

[miguelf]

Hi Chris

Really masterpiece of art, great technique, amazing mattes, nice colors and composition, thanks for being so inspiring to me...keep up the good work.

[level6]

man awesome composition ! 5*

[simmsimaging]

Fantastic image all around.

b

[pimeto]

wow, i love this one!
Nice job dude!

It will be really cool if you share i higher ressolution :) wires, etc.

[cthunig]

Whoa, thanks everyone! I'm glad you are getting something out of it.

Here (http://www.thunig.com/content_01/images/work/mp_036_ax.jpg) is a higher res version of the image.

Here (http://www.thunig.com/bin/mp_036_b.jpg) is an unshaded render done in Maya (the ground geometry was later replaced with a displacement geometry that I felt did the job better). There is really not much to it. If you flip through the pages of Ballistic's book previewer (http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/dartiste/matte_painting_2/flip_d_mp2.swf) (the last tutorial way in the back) there are a few more images that, though small, may give a bit of an idea of the process. I rendered a number of passes of the foreground elements that I then composited in Photoshop. The backdrop is a 2D mattepainting that I would include in the 3D scene for lighting and reflection purposes. The characters are partly pieced together from photographs and partly painted, then mapped on cards. Further color correction and grading was applied at the end.

Really this was more about creating a mattepainting than a car render. The idea here was to explore mattepainting as a means to stage and composite characters/action rather than mattepainting as an architectural/landscape illustration that exists for its own purpose. Mostly mattepainting is no more than a means to help tell a story and I felt it was important to touch on that in the book.

As for Lux Lucis, it really is just a bunch of hazy ideas that I keep collecting under that name in hopes to some day turn it into something more... not sure if I'll ever find the time.

Again, thanks for your kind comments, I really appreciate it!

[mv]

congrats on the award dude :)

[Likesyrup]

Amazing love it. Captures the style of that period and stay true to how the thought the future was very near.

[animetria]

I want to see a wireframe pic!... would be nice to see it.

[Mrbonbon]

stunning work.
congrat.
cool to share the making of ...

[bigguns]

Héhé Superb! ;)

[BKScreation]

Its a greate beautiiful work! Very stylish. Congrats. You make my day, realy. Very inspiring.

[sandykoufax]

Amazing! Really nice work.

[e338]

so freaking cool!
Love the retro style indeed, very fun and yet classy.
The other image with the running guy on your tutorial is insane; like... goood !!
Thx for sharing.

[KaDDD]

its sooOOo cOoolll ! !
i love it , perfect design dor the car , and really excellent composition

cheers !

KaDDD

[CryingHorn]

I like this so much. Reminds me of my old good days watching Back To The Future. I'll put this on my desktop for a while :D :love:


cheers!

[MaryamNademi]

Excellent color pallette in all your works.thanks for inspiring a hell out of me!
Can you share more info about this personal project is it going to be a book.short film or??...sounds awesome!

the other related image on your portfolio is stunning too.There is wow factor for the whole composition,colors,mood,its very dynamic.
Although the location is a very daily ordinary location that everyone could be there, The image is not getting its beauty from high tech sky scrapers or you're not on the clouds seeing the unlimited lands to be in awe.
this is different,and really really good indeed.

Thanks.

[djart73]

Great... All Thumbs UPPPP.....:bowdown:
Please share some information about the Picture, PLEASE....

djart

[FRENZIEDmind]

AWESOME! Excellent illustration. It looks real (sans the wide-angle-lens effect). I want one of those Pontiacs! Thanks for the highres... didn't notice the jet-wing in back at first.

[nwiz25]

absolutely kickass!! :scream: :eek: that reflection hit really brings out the 'metalness' of the car paint! simply wow!

[warboss]

Awesome! that is beautiful illustration.
5 stars from me.
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[mikebarnucz]

Definitely deserving of feature on the front page. I can tell you studied the old GM ads by Art Fitzpatrick from the the 60's and early 70's. I really appreciate that, being a fan of classic cars and the artwork in the advertising that went along with them. This is totally inspirational to me, thanks for sharing.

[cook5000]

Love the Cary Grant-ish man. :)

I love the word "grant-ish" :wip:

Awesome blend between 3d and painting. I couldn't tell, what is rendered at all. It looks perfect in every pixel :thumbsup:

[japetus]

Wow, I love this! Reminds me of classic Syd Mead and the advertising from that era, awesome job!

[Cartesius]

I agree with the rest: a really refreshing spin on a car render (and let's face it, a seeing a car render is usually as fun as watching paint dry)!

Very, very good!

/Anders

[Angroc]

Reminds me very much of Syd Mead.:)

[oceanmovieclip]

Nice flying machine.;)

[psycho-mullet]

Wow! Awesome image! Reminds me of Art Fitzpatrick Van Kaufman Pontiac ads from teh 60's

http://www.fitz-art.com/

Good stuff man!

[cthunig]

Again, thank you everybody!

mbaldwin: You are spot on, I devoured this book. It is part of an entire series spanning the different decates of American advertising and it's literally filled to the brim with nothing but period ads and artwork. I can only recommend it to anyone who is interested in this sort of thing.

DUCKORABB, japetus, Angroc: There's no denying it, Syd Mead certainly was an inspiration here.

mikebarnucz, psycho-mullet: You're right, I did take a long hard look at the amazing work of Art Fitzpatrick. Thanks for the excellent link!

[chaoticreality]

Nicely done. Excellent attention to detail. :p

[syedamin7]

it looks amazing dude! :thumbsup:

[majid-smiley]

amaizing !

[Boldaz-Lepton]

I want a car like that one soooooooo baaaaaaaad

congrats, man

[onetruth]

It would be great to see it at a higher resolution...I feel like I'm missing out on the details!

Really super!

[OKMER]

Gonna get myself this taschen serie!héhé love that.
Amazing image!!!very powerfull!Congratz!
Greetz,
remko

[persianglad]

nice job but i think that motion blur value most a bit lower. :applause:

[SpaXe]

Outstanding. The amount of work here is simply astounding.

The only crit from me is my photographer's nature . . . the depth of view is too wide (like from near to infinity ultra sharp, huh) and even if it's a sunny day at f/16, the far distance is still too sharp.

great atmosphere, though!

[indianhornbill]

wowwww..... its an amazing work... congrats my friend.....

could you plez post the wire frame and high res image....

5* from my side...:) :) :) :) :)

Thank you

[procarve]

I really love the retro look on this image - makes it seem like a happy carefree time and the car just rocks!

This type of image makes me wish I could crawl into it and live there for a while.

[procarve]

Chris -

Really great work - posted a link to it on my blog

http://www.rocketfuelsigns.com/inspiring-art-or-artists/2008/10/7/clark-gable-meets-marty-mcfly-lux-lucis.html

[Ronski]

Hey great work Chris,

I like how you've tackled the light on the guy & the general colour palette, has a nice retro/sci-fi feel, like something you'd see in promotional/lifestyle material.

Only crit would be the rear fin of the car gets lost a little, I only noticed it when I saw the render. Looks good though, nice design.

[mastajappa]

Not a fan of the romantic environment. But what a vehicle and I love the pov.

[johnnymoha]

Yeah, that vehicle is something else. The entire scene is perfect.

[suffibutt]

Hooooooo, Wowo, Nice Buhat Alalalaal

[Kaleen]

OMFG....!

This is awesome...!

[nightwoodwolf]

really great image .. awesome work :thumbsup:

[EstudioManga]

My goodness! Amazing piece of art! 5 stars of course!

[AaronWaller]

Nice, very surreal. Excellent work, Keep it up.

[shemosus]

this is cool, i really love it.

[NikanAnsari]

Love this Classic Style. It all fits so well together. Way to go

[Stellats]

Badass! Very nice work here. I love how even though it is futuristic, it has that vintage feel to it.

[t7200]

Amazing render! I really appreciate the mood and sense of futurism

[nickloz]

Very 60s Syd Mead!

I love this image, everything is perfect down to the glistens on the sheet metal. Great job!

[tsurubaso]

Like every other viewers I will say that your image is perfect,
Your technical level is astonishing.

The Cadillac, the decor, the two persons, every thing is good.
However there is some points that are to be think about to make it absolutely perfect.

You are making a description of an unreal world, with flying cars stabilized in the air with a engine working with I don't what energy.
This is unrealistic but the laws of physics and nature have to apply, in order that every one enter the illusion.

1)
Your reactors are creating heat, The birds have to be afraid of it, like any normal bird will do. or at least be far enough...

2)
Your reactors are emitting light, the shadows of the car on the ground, specialy in the borders of the shadow...are not altered enough by this supplementary source of light.

3)
This one is excessive, but from the position of the man, the car will shift on the right. His weight will either make it shift or unballance the car. Knowing that (the man) will not put this hand in this position or this unballance status have to be represented.

Ok,
this said your work is really good.

[Greatboy]

I Never seen something this before! I wish i can make something like this! :cry:

[Greatboy]

Wonderfull! This is wonderfull! This make me cry, couse i wish i can make something like this! :cry:

[Lopster]

I love the original futuristic approach in designin this car,, the picture is really good ,,well done,, i am usually not interested in 3D cars since they r soooooo many and simmilllarrrr but hey buddy,, this one surely caught my eye,! great job :)

[mv]

1)
Your reactors are creating heat, The birds have to be afraid of it, like any normal bird will do. or at least be far enough...


best comment ever

[FabioMSilva]

best comment ever

quoted for agreement:applause:

[Yousef-ikhreis]

Love this colors
the mood is great it make me breath more .

[pschoboy]

The rendering is out there, man!,

[shanoj007]

toooo goood

[Molier]

Wonderful lightning work!! :applause:

[bones]

really hit it with the poses, time standing still, and got a soft spot for Parisienne myself

[haojiahuo]

very cool!i like it

[fanglee]

Goog`用俺们中国话说是：真她娘的棒！

[DANKA]

An amazing piece! A nice mix between classic vintage and modern...love, I would like to have a poster of it! :-) 5*

[yigido]

Healthcare across the beautiful

[angelo80]

Great!! awesome composition ! 5*

[CGplayer]

I like it
It's great

[alkanmi]

Very very very good!.....................:applause:

[T0NiC]

Awesome! Love the style and atmosphere! Ghehe, did pontiac show any intrest thusfar?

I read that you changed the ground geometry into a displacement map... but on that same render looking at the headlights seems that you made some change there as well??

Great stuff, candy for the eyes.

[MuqtarM]

Exelent piece of work, Love the concept:cool:

[SLK]

Awesome old time artwork

[p22dunbar]

man, tell me, what kind of drive is that? i mean, i know this is just an art, but You probably have a rough idea how could it work:) like is it heat operated, antigrav or what?

i'm making a game design project and would like to use this kind of vehicle.

cheers.
Jack

[KDiGreen]

Very interesting design. Who wouldn't want to see a flying classic car? Hehe, great job!

[shadowseve]

I like it. I'm not a huge fan of cars since there is an overkill of them, however the way that this one was done was really refreshing and very nice on the eyes. I love the car hovering and the whole feel of the piece. Really Excellent work.

[Felixenfeu]

omg, really amazing work five star !

[Erigo]

wow !!! that realy awesome man ! that your work reminds me Starcraft 2))

[Imhotep397]

I think I commented on this before already, but seeing it again I'm still amazed. Beautiful work! I am kind of curious about how much of this started as 2D and how much was 3D and learn a little bit about how you make decisions on techniques to integrate them.

[mortezanajafi]

Graet Work , render, composite (5*)

[Zhang3]

WHAT A WONDERFUL PIC!nice render

[ChristopheFauconneau]

hey chris,
in this scene, are you talking about the huge difficulty to meet an alien girl ?
is he running after her, or her ship ?

the perspective is gorgeous and offers 'punchy' textures and many reading levels.
pretty cool dichotomy between retro and futuristic style.

superb painting, composition, dynamic and rendering !

[coldking]

cool，i like this picture

[kyokushinkai2]

Great vintage mood!
A mix between old movies and advertisements.

Good job!

[snake710]

great job,great light

[phunguyenVFS]

I like this image it seems very real!!!

[Syllo]

very nice design and style. remind me some of Mr Syd Mead's work, retro even vintage but we can still feel the "out of space" being under the lines. 5*

[DAVEC]

Hi Chris

This image is fantastic, it definately gets 5 stars from me, i can't fault it in any way

[am3dcompany]

good work dear

[mayulin]

wow!good job!

[Kotolay]

The best work i ever seen!!

[vikhyath47]

amazing work...

[Aelirenn]

Nice retro look.

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