Vegas Glow

(RoW Nov. 5 - 11)

Hazem Zoom's Lamborghini Murcielago is too cool a car to keep sitting in my hard drive. :)

In Vue 6, I first set up the HDRI environment (take a look at this post here to refresh yourself on HDRI). Since I only had one photo to work with (and it wasn't a panorama), the background image was stretched and blurred quite a bit. So, I created a single-sided vertical plane and mapped the image to that. I worked with the mapped photo texture a bit to make the colors brighter/more intense. I placed the Lamborghini in the foreground and the sign between the car and the photo. Since I'm using an HDRI environment, notice how the buildings/lights from the photo reflect on the cars' reflective surfaces. Also, the lighting in my scene was created to look exactly like the photo's lighting.

After the 5h10'59" render, I moved into Photoshop. I painted some colors and designs on the ground to match the photo with the 3d and also adjusted the lighting and added some glow to finish off the image. Final: Vegas Glow. Enjoy!