Big Trucks!

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Skies I usually replace in post for final shot. Then I use different one for reflections and so on.

[Neilg]

When you guys are doing the skies do you use an HDR in the domelight

this one, but with 'store in irradiance map' turned on.

get something like this:
http://3docean.net/item/hdri-1912-du...thor=paguthrie
open it in photoshop and do some color correction and editing to it to make it darker/more dramatic.

[kriscabrera15]

ok guys got camera angle from animation, and matte painting, tweaked some shaders and tweaked environment lights, made them taller and bigger to give of more light. This has no beauty lights just environment lights and HDR. what you guys think?

[Neilg]

It's still too monochromatic. You could make it black & white and barely notice the difference.

[kriscabrera15]

i did saturated it maybe i will add some more next round

[Neilg]

It's not the saturation that i'm talking about, it's your lighting.

[kriscabrera15]

Could u be more specific? 😁

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Ur lights are monochrome. So put some temperature to them. Also ur hdr ssems monochrome too. I gess he mean he want to see low level saturation in ur image to add more realism - I agree.

It also looks like u have clamping enabled...

[kriscabrera15]

yes i see, i actually have some temperature in them might have to exaggerate it since the lights are to bright, at the moment clamp is off, i am tronning them down in comp. you think i should saturate the HDR? here is the one am using

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Seems ok. Well I'm not sure what it is but ur image looks very clamped. And it lacks quite a bit of white tones. its very flat.

[kriscabrera15]

I did tone back the whites, I actually pushed the truck way more then the environment which has more whites, I'll go another round and exaggerate them feedback is helping guys thanks!!

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Another thing that bothers me beside white is the lighting. Its very flat and general. At night u'd expect to have some direction from lamps and so on.

[kriscabrera15]

yea i hear that, maybe i should keep some back and have some main ones. at the moment they are flooding the whole parking lot that why there is not much shadow direction. there is some around the mirror and front tires but not a specific one. I might kick back the front left lamps and make the rear right the more predominate one

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

U would not really see shadows on black asphalt + reflective surface. Anyway I would put the light inside lamps and see how that looks. Also I would make paint 65% of gray and lift the rest in post.