Making of "The Legends" Jeep Willys MBby Rasyid Ridha (XtremeTm) Web: rasyidxtreme.wordpress.com
Rendering and Lighting
In this part I will show you the render and lighting. I used 3 lights in the scene in which 2 are point lights and 1 is infinite light. One point light as light source, one point and infinite light I used as fill light. Fill lights are not casting any shadows. And for the render, I used Mental Ray. I created 4 render passes, its color with shadow, specular pass, ambient occlusion pass and mask/alpha pass. As for reflection around the glasses material I used an HDRI image, I used them only for the glass reflection. I don’t use any FG or GI, my computer cannot handle them.
Final Compositing and Paint Work - In this part I used Photoshop, for compositing, paint work and other tweaks. I’ll show you the pictures as much as possible to show the process done in Photoshop.
The tire dirt, building wall, barrel and other important points was painted using custom brushes and dodge tools in Photoshop. As for the sun flares, I created in Photoshop too… well somehow my computer got render problem and cannot handle it when rendering using Glow effect in XSI. I know there must be same technique for this issue, just want to make it quick and finish this project as fast as possible.
I used dodge and burn too to get better effect where I cannot reach or created in XSI or BodyPaint. Some texture stretch, I fix them too in Photoshop. The last thing that I done was after finishing this scene is cropping the image (to get better composition and point of interest), adding ash/dust on the ground to add some extra life for the scene. Then tweaking all the color of the overall image. Finally I am done. Hope this walkthrough gives you some inspiration and interesting read.
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