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…

[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…

[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, I tend to stick to TotalLighting, Refraction, Reflection, Specular, and then maybe an AO pass with VrayDirt, bu…

[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, Micro Noise / Surface Imperfections, is much of this going on in commercial ad work? Specular, Reflection, Ref…

[image] Fog color error Just to add something about the hdri, you never use the raw hdr, all the nice images you see, are usually using a modified HDRi, sometime using a combinasion of several hdri (example: http://www.cgifocus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Ford\_UsedApproved\_1.jpg there are 4 …

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ali_cgi September 13, 2014, 7:31am 36

Thanks for this Info Yannick very insightful! Reallly nice work on your website two, any info on exactly how these hdri’s would be merged? i notice they are all at a similar location but different areas of the place?

Cheers

Alistair

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