Ok guys, this is a shot in the dark, but would I love to get some insight into what the automotive cgi companies are doing to to get such amazing results, company’s like gloss, taylor james, npix, recom etc, Also form my research all the German studios seem to have a very similar look to their imag…

Hi Kosso, Some really nice info here! Yes I have witnessed good and bad hdri’s myself, I put it down to incorrect use of ptgui, Junf Von Matt, I can imagine it to be very insightful to be a fly on the wall there! And very cool to know how different render quality can be, I’ll have to check those …

Ok then guys, lets add some extra related questions into the mix, little more specific to car work, Render Pass Compositing, Useful passes for compositing/ retouch, how do you use different passes in post, which are the most valuable other than mattes, Micro Noise / Surface Imperfections, is much …

[image] Entire forum broken ? Render Pass Compositing, Useful passes for compositing/ retouch, how do you use different passes in post, which are the most valuable other than mattes, Hard to say really. In my experience this strongly depends on the retoucher who does the final artwork. Some re…

[image] Entire forum broken ? Ok then guys, lets add some extra related questions into the mix, little more specific to car work, 1 Render Pass Compositing, Useful passes for compositing/ retouch, how do you use different passes in post, which are the most valuable other than mattes, 2 Micro No…

[image] Ignore render elements on objects with matte obj/-1 alpha My entire render workflow system is fully automatic as well as stacking renders in photoshop… Automatically stacking renders! Oh, how much time it would save… Never tried doing it, though.

Its. Epic. : p Specially when I get around 150-200 render layers for each car out of my render script…

Could you share some insights on how it was done? I mean, every render has a different name, are the layers filtered for specific names like *reflection* etc? Come on, how does the magic work? :smile: 150 render layers for each car? Sounds like a whole bunch of overlays for each car. Why is that? …

Heya Hehe yea I have some cleaver ways of finding renders in my folder :- ) As to layers well its like photographer does it… it just 1 light pass produce 3 sub passes (diffuse/refl/specular). I also have extra set ups for reflection planes, motion cameras, shadow, interiors and so on. It took me 3…

[image] Uninstall Service Pack Is your nickname in any way related to Ralph Richter? [image] fade objects I’m pretty sure its him :- ) Yep I work for Ralph Richter. I do most of the cg stuff for him. Render Pass Compositing, Useful passes for compositing/ retouch, how do you use differ…

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Automatically stacking renders! Oh, how much time it would save… Never tried doing it, though.

Anyone know of an animated tree for shadow casting only?

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