I created this image for competition at Humster3D. It hasn't got any prize, but it's mentioned with other works as really good one.
Case study
For this work I decided to use Iray renderer. It's real time renderer by nVidia. It's very simple and powerful render engine. It generates really great looking images.
It also gives immediate result - if you have enough power on you grahpics card.
Image was rendered on GeForce GTX 660 and Quadro K600.
It took around 28 minutes to genereate image of 3000x1900 resolution.
I made this model while ago, I just added bodykit, so it looks more agressive.
Vray used for normal pass, the edited in after effects to create spelular for the model.
HDRI
Well, I don't have equipment to make hdri. So I decided to create fake one. I used some photos and created texture for 3d object. Then i rendered it out with 360 camera and saved as HDRI. It's not perfect, but did the job right.
Photos I used for texture are made by my friend Wojtek Wójcik (so does the backplate). He took around 170 pictures of my car.
Backplate photo
As I mentioned before. I used photos from a set my friend made. Belowe you can see photo of my car that i use as a backplate. Some areas had to be cleaned.