Pot Rod

kwistenbiebel

He he, nice idea!.
How exactly do you get that shadow on to a HDRI?
Is it by using some 'shadow channel' while hiding the ground face?
Does such a channel render seperately from Maxwell?

sorry for the curiousity..

regards,
Kwistenbiebel

marked001

yeah..maxwell 1.5 now has a 'shadow channel' option.. so there was a plane on the ground with a specific material that only renders shadows.... so the original render + alpha render + shadow render..and paste over the photo in PS.. i do need an HDRI light source though for the chrome..

marked001

little update..changed the wheels/tires.. and added some reflections of the background image..and of course, a driver.. any help is greatly appreciated..thanks.

kwistenbiebel

Hi Marked,

Light on the toilet is way richer then the first one. Perfect.
Did you introduce the physical sky +sun to get it come out like this?
I was expecting a guy 'sitting' on the vehicle though.
Right now, certainly compared to the rest of the image, the 'driver' is scaled wrong.

marked001

i did use the physical sun/sky the first time...but this time i used hdri's of the background for reflection/refraction..think that helped alot!

as far as the driver, it is actually correct...going by how the model was originally built...

sorry for the funky colors...

but i do like your idea..have it actually be the size of a toilet and have somone sitting on it? little steering wheel?

kwistenbiebel

Oh I see....the guy actually has a seat in the bowl.
Ok, you should keep that !
You just have to scale up both the toilet as the man inside.
Right now the toiet is scaled like a 'real' toilet, while it is intended to be bigger.It should at least be double size of current dimensions I think.