Thanks Edgard. Freetime? Look at what time I post my work…:eek:
I’m still modeling the scooter… And still learning Silo. I hate bumpers!
Hard to find time to work on the project. I think I’ll skip lunch… I’m too fat anyway…
I did some lighting tests and this will be another challenge…
I will certainly use GI but IBL…? How the heck do you get nice shadows with that? :banghead:
Time to go to bed before the wife comes and kick me. Again…
Rick,
IBL (ADAPTIVE SKY MAPS) can work really well, and there are a few things to be aware of. The first is that color balance is strongly effected by the image you use. So you may have to de-saturate the image to get colors you expect. The second is that IBL works a bit differently than normal sky maps in that the rays are calculated more densely for bright spots on the image. This means you can get noise coming from the dim areas depending on howe the image is oriented.
I posted a pretty useful image for IBL with this tutorial.
http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/forums/viewthread/486/
If you photoshop away the sun, and use a standard light with GI set to normal and GI RI set to 1, you can get good results with out having to align the IBL. Also using a standard light with IBL or any GI sky lights seems to reduce the noise.
Good luck,
Yon
An extra-large all dressed thank you to you Yon!
You posted this tutorial in march!!? Where was I? Sleeping again…?
(hush mode on)
Lets hope the other contestants don’t see this information, that will give ME the edge…
(hush mode off)
I should consider the SoloJet model finish. I’m quite happy with it as my first Silo “real job”.
Wonderful tool! Now as I will not have time to model a city background… I’ll have to find a way to present it. A showroom maybe… or is it already used…?
We still have many many minutes to complete our images…
Hey richard that is a change… yes ! 
I like very very much. I agre with your new front of the solojet.
Congrats !
PD. I happy of encounter to you here too… thk!
Thanks guys you’re a great bunch!
Alonzo, I thought you didn’t drive in the city… Of course “jetting” is better…
Predicted price in 1945 was 5000$ (in 1945, house= 4600$, car= 1100$, salary= 1300$…)
Eric, the typeface is “SF Americana Dreams”
Miguel, I completely remodeled the whole front… I probably have the worse loops ever seen in Silo… You have to start somewhere…!
Loon, I built two but they already sold… Top speed? Stock, 350 Km/h. Modified, supersonic but you are not allowed to go over cities… It is recommended to change the plexiglass windshield to the transparent aluminum one…
Nice Work Rick.
Looks like we definitely have a good race going here between you, Miseka ,yhloon, the Capt’n and Eric.
Cheers,
Mike
Finally… This is my final entry.
Raytraced GI, HDRI, 1 light, Fog pass for Depth of field.
Many thanks to Yon and Ian (sounds funny…) for their excellent tutorials and to all participants for their encouragements. Big applause to Brian for setting this up:applause:
I learned a LOT!
Ole ! that a beautiful pic and color, Its impresive…
Here is posting a great jobs… very congrats
Great render…
cheers
Miguel
Wow! Rick, that looks great. I love the way you pulled the whole concept together. Especially the roto-dial-a-rent. Fun.
Yon
PS Who you calling funny?
wow Richard, nice image, I like the colour very much, so refreshing and crisp, the idea of dailing enter code are never heard before! :applause:yor are an artist with successive of great ideas. 
Good Luck!
Great work, Richard. I love the 3D toon look.
Another image that needs to be in the EITG gallery.
Really nice work Rick.
You had a great concept and final image.
Please reserve 2 Rent a jets and a side car for my 2 year old.
Thanks and congrats a job well done,
Mike
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Ian, of course…
Sorry guys for the late reply, I had some sleep to catch up with…
For those who participated, you know it’s hard to find time for such challenge so, some nights had to be cut short…
Thanks you all for the nice comments, I really appreciate it.
On a sadder note, may I say I am really disappointed that we got only 4 final entries out of 9 participants. Well I guess the timing was not there, family things and real work took the upper hand.
Excellent work Richard. You always do well in these competion. It’s a full image with a story. Rent a jet. Great use of the geometry by duplicating the vehicle The modeling geometry has great form and appeal.It In some ways I could be more technique detail, to move it away from the fantasy but the fanstasy works too. Maybe tubing at the handle bars but the fins on the jets make up for any loss of detail with very nice rounding. Excellent detail with the use of texture. Signage and logo design is on point, says it all. Great composition. Very Good work.
Thanks Alonzo.
I added a larger version: http://www.rdn.qc.ca/eias/Yesterday_Future-Final-Large.jpg
Every time I learn something new, I grow and it becomes easier and faster to do what I used to do. But the more I know, the better I grasp the magnitude of my ignorance… So, I have to start the whole learning process again to get to the next step… Why is it that I still love doing this…?:hmm: