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Tinpau
10-19-2008, 12:18 PM
Here are a couple of my cartoon cars. Created and rendered in LW 9.5, using the Light***** plugin


Enjoy!

tinpau
WilliamVaughan
10-19-2008, 12:25 PM
Very cool... I loveteh Van
Tinpau
10-19-2008, 12:49 PM
Thanx ! The van is one of my favorites too.

Tinpau
WilliamVaughan
10-19-2008, 01:01 PM
can we see a couple wireframe renders
Hopper
10-19-2008, 01:36 PM
Absolutely LOVE the last one. A full animation of any of these would be outstanding. Excellent work! :thumbsup:

I tried to do an old 280Z in a similar fashion and it's still in my project folder, just waiting.... This is where cars meet organic modeling.
RonGC
10-19-2008, 03:25 PM
Fantastic, love these cars. Any more you have to show?

Ron
Red_Oddity
10-19-2008, 03:37 PM
these are brilliant, very funny stuff.
Tinpau
10-19-2008, 03:53 PM
Here are a couple more. The last one is using the new paint shader in 9.51

Proton - you mean wireframe screen captures, or renders ? If renders, how do I do that ?

Tinpau
RonGC
10-19-2008, 04:11 PM
Man, these are all very good, but that Surf Van is killer:D

Ron
Tinpau
10-19-2008, 04:36 PM
RonGC - Thanx

I really enjoy the mechanical stuff... now if I could just do organic. :)

tinpau
alqadi
10-19-2008, 04:43 PM
wow very cool nice paint and clean render.
RonGC
10-19-2008, 04:53 PM
I really enjoy the mechanical stuff... now if I could just do organic. :)

tinpau

Obviously your playing to your strengths:thumbsup:

Ron
K-Dawg
10-19-2008, 05:29 PM
Here are a couple more. The last one is using the new paint shader in 9.51

Proton - you mean wireframe screen captures, or renders ? If renders, how do I do that ?

Tinpau

For subpatched objects there is a great plugin from art called "Polygon Coloring". it is now also available for 64 bits.
http://www.artssphere.com/plugins/polygoncoloring.php

Or you can try this technique from Proton..

ftp://ftp.newtek.com/multimedia/movies/w3dw/PolyTrim.mov

And your cars rock man. I like the Pickup from your first post :)

Greetz
irenderlw
10-19-2008, 07:40 PM
YIKES! Great stuff here. I was working on a Big Daddy Roth/hot rod render, a twisted up hot rod with the arm shifting through a hole in the roof, when I had a hard drive fail. Lost it all. After seeing this I'm going to start over. Nice.:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Larry_g1s
10-20-2008, 02:09 AM
lol..those are great!
ken_g9
10-20-2008, 02:35 AM
Great renders :)
safarifx
10-20-2008, 03:03 AM
:lol::lol::lol:

big up ...its to coool...

:rock:

snip safx
Fadlabi
10-20-2008, 04:45 AM
Nice work! Congratulation :thumbsup:
Kuzey
10-20-2008, 07:25 AM
Oh man...those are too cool :thumbsup:

Kuzey
Schwing
10-22-2008, 03:14 PM
Very cool. Love the VW van. Where in Wisconsin are you?
Tinpau
10-22-2008, 07:12 PM
Schwing - Madison, Why ?

I am working on a couple others..


Tinpau
WilliamVaughan
10-22-2008, 07:18 PM
Have you tried throwing teh Car Paint Material node on these?
WilliamVaughan
10-23-2008, 06:46 AM
this might giveyou some ideas:

http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90646
A Mejias
10-23-2008, 12:55 PM
VERY COooOL! It reminds me of the old hot rod kits Tom Daniel designed.

Check this site out, for insperation.
http://www.showrods.com/

I built many of those kits as a kid and I've been buying some of my faves on eBay.
Schwing
10-23-2008, 03:00 PM
Madison, Why ?
I'm north of you - Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls area.

Great looking models. I was thinking of doing something like this of my Mustang this winter when I get back into it.

Keepem' coming. :rock:
colkai
10-24-2008, 04:18 AM
Just seen these for the first time- lovely work and nice concepts! :)
Tinpau
10-24-2008, 08:42 PM
Proton - Just started playing with the car paint material after watching your tutorial . I think this is a great material node for me :):)

I will post the new render of the VW Drag Van using the new car paint material node when it finishes.

Tinpau
WilliamVaughan
10-24-2008, 09:06 PM
cant wait!
Tinpau
10-24-2008, 09:21 PM
Well... now that I am trying the Car Paint Material with my regular settings a scene.... My render times have skyrocketed.

I need to figure out a new studio scene that is simple and renders quickly, allowing chrome to shine. HDR Image with Light***** is what I have been using.

Any ideas ??

Tinpau
Tobian
10-25-2008, 05:24 AM
Set the base coat of the paint to use interpolated relection (in it's advanced settings, try the defaults) and set the reflection quality of the gloss coat to be 1. Try setting al your reflection materials to have a reflection quality of 1, and make sure you use the new perspective camera, with adaptive sampling of about 0.03. You should see a drop in the render times... Hopefully! :)

I love these little cars! Very full of character and life! :)
Tinpau
10-25-2008, 06:56 AM
Tobian -

Thanx - I will try these settings and camera when I get home from work today. I will have plenty of time to play around then.

Tinpau
akademus
10-25-2008, 07:06 AM
Mini awesomeness!!!
Tinpau
10-25-2008, 06:52 PM
Well here is the latest render using the new Car Paint material node.

Also changed the settings so it would render faster. But now I have no shadows on the base.

Another test coming.... any ideas ??

tinpau
W@v3r4dd1ct
10-26-2008, 10:13 AM
Wow awesome!!!
great piece of work!!
congratz Tin
cya
WilliamVaughan
10-26-2008, 10:42 AM
Well here is the latest render using the new Car Paint material node.

Also changed the settings so it would render faster. But now I have no shadows on the base.

Another test coming.... any ideas ??

tinpau


Post a list of what is going on in the scene. Type of Lights, etc

If your using a Dome Light you might lower teh angle and that woul dmake less soft shadows and lower teh render time
Tinpau
10-26-2008, 12:55 PM
Well, thanx to watching Protons videos and other people suggestions, I decided to create a new scene totally on my own with minimal lights and hopefully faster render times.

Well after a day of playing around and testing, this is the result. Not too bad, needs a little tweeking, but render times are at 6-8 min.

Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions for improvements

Tinpau
WilliamVaughan
10-26-2008, 01:51 PM
looks good. I would turn smoothing on your surface and turn shadows off for all but your key light
Tinpau
10-26-2008, 03:06 PM
Proton - Thanx for the tips again.

Here is the latest render using my new scene setup, 3 lights and the new car paint material !

Think it turned out really well. Render time on my machine about 18 min

Tinpau
WilliamVaughan
10-26-2008, 03:12 PM
looking very cool!
Tobian
10-27-2008, 08:11 AM
Very cool! You might want to do that kind of studio environment lighting style, and add some objects which are over 100% luminous round it, to give it some cool reflections, like William did in his video. You should try enabling radiosity, you can get very rapid times with it nowadays!
creacon
10-30-2008, 02:49 PM
Tinpau,

have you read your private mail?

creacon
Mrjack
10-30-2008, 03:55 PM
Wooow the last one is real realy realy coooool
Tinpau
10-30-2008, 09:14 PM
Here is the latest scene with some improvements in HDRI image and lighting

I also played a little more with the car paint material.

Let me know what you think.

Tinpau
Mat
10-30-2008, 10:19 PM
cool cars.
Tobian
10-31-2008, 05:53 AM
Very nice! Could use some more sprinkles, but you're definitely getting there! :)
cresshead
10-31-2008, 06:10 AM
nice models!

well done..looking forward to seeing a few of them in a road scene at some point in the future.

brum brum!
inquisitive
10-31-2008, 06:17 AM
Very nice - thank you for sharing
Tinpau
11-11-2008, 06:53 AM
Here is my cartoon van with flip flop car paint. I got the node from Preset Central - http://presetcentral.com/ Lots of great ones there.

Enjoy !!

Tinpau