Gosh - If I had known there would be this much attention to your skin then I would have made mine quicker
Good thing I decided not to go with the studio look 
Render times were amazingly slow too: about 12h in total because of displaced ground + glossy reflections + indirect lighting 
PNG's
01: 1280x1024 - 1920x1080
02: 1280x1024 - 1920x1080
The second column in the attached preview shows how the renders looked directly from the 3d app (apart from obvious scaling, of cause). I originally only prepared for the first shot. The second render was therefor too strongly lit as I only changed the cam angle and didn't match the lighting. Shopping helped to recover a lot.
Anyways, I hope you'll enjoy these. They were fun to make.
roflmao.. oh, my tummy - it hurts
Seriously? It's not unusual to have reflections there - even high contrast ones:
http://cdn-www.rsportscars.com ... -front-quarter-studio.jpg
http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000CdG2B7hNs_k/s
http://www.strikingcars.com/wp ... oncept-front-studio-2.jpg
I'd agree though that the the edges might be too harsh from time to time - but I'm often too lazy to do anything about that
That's what I try to achieve in my renders and it's a great compliment when recognizes it. Thanks!
Thanks. Dunno if its too large. I aimed for it tbh and it doesn't look too bad in high res.
Finally managed to do some renders - High res link sent to PM.
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The most common - in normal circumstances - reason would be that your monitor doesn't match whatever color profile is set in Photoshop. That's perfectly normal because hardware can have tiny imperfection here and there, not 2 brands or eve same models are the same etc etc. Hardware can also get worse over time due to wear, while software remains constant.
This *doesn't* mean it's an indication that your monitor is bad!
And regarding the morons that blow up busses and whatnot - thats just what they are. If they happen to have a muslim background then that doesn't mean the bombing was religiously motivated.
Muslims are in the end people like the rest of the worlds population - some are ****-ups and some are just trying to live their life quiet and easy.
Edit: Jihad, as MAGGOT correctly points out, means struggle and has nothing to do with killing - how could anyone kill in the name of the religion when the person him/herself has personal issues? Personal jihad/struggle is the first obstacle any muslim must overcome - and as some of you may be able to tell, it's freking difficult to come clean with yourself.
We, in the western world, have had Jihad associated with killings and terror though movies and news for at least 20 years - that's what I remember from own ersonal experience... all those old action flicks with sterotypical arabs wanting to have some super duper guy relied from jail.. or else..! etc kind of stuff.
No wonder Islam and terror goes hand in hand in the minds of many people.
Muslims are in the end people like the rest of the worlds population - some are ****-ups and some are just trying to live their life quiet and easy.
Edit: Jihad, as MAGGOT correctly points out, means struggle and has nothing to do with killing - how could anyone kill in the name of the religion when the person him/herself has personal issues? Personal jihad/struggle is the first obstacle any muslim must overcome - and as some of you may be able to tell, it's freking difficult to come clean with yourself.
We, in the western world, have had Jihad associated with killings and terror though movies and news for at least 20 years - that's what I remember from own ersonal experience... all those old action flicks with sterotypical arabs wanting to have some super duper guy relied from jail.. or else..! etc kind of stuff.
No wonder Islam and terror goes hand in hand in the minds of many people.
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If Islam blatantly encourages to kill non-believers then there wouldn't be any Bahrain GP - no Malaysian GP.. wave goodbye to all tourist destinations that are in islamic countries or have larger enough muslim populations, as it simply wouldn't be safe for any non-believer, right?
If Islam did encourage to kill non-believers, then anyone could do so with clean and good conscience in any Muslim country without risking jail time. How many muslim countries are actually banned by the rest of the world because of this and how often are such killings occurring?
If muslims are supposed to hate non-believers this much, then why are so many living outside islamic countries - they aren't exactly doing the killings that many non-muslims claim Islam promotes - oh right, they are all lurking around for the big coup, to turn the country into an islamic one - by some magical way... I guess being idle can lead you somewhere.
Some years ago it was Counter-Strike and similar games that led some to become violent and even randomly kill people - or at least that's what some wanted us to believe. that was just a small thingy compared to religion.
Today a lot revolves around islam.. stuff happens, blame it on islam. Islam didn't appear yesterday, so why would muslims rise of off the sudden? Oh right.. I forgot again.. world wide coupe. The attention is changing politics. It makes it more serious but doesn't make the fear more true or valid. Politicians are people like the rest. If people in high places were that much better than the rest of us then we wouldn't have the financial crisis, would we?
Quran says "kill a non-believer" - but such examples are always used out of context - similarly, it's your right to defend yourself - but that doesn't mean you can wander around and randomly punch people of their faces, does it? a soldier can "kill and enemy", but that doesn't mean they can go on random killing spree because they felt everyone around them were enemies.
Lots of you are smart people but just need to see things a bit differently. A good start would be not to rely too much on one sided information.
If Islam did encourage to kill non-believers, then anyone could do so with clean and good conscience in any Muslim country without risking jail time. How many muslim countries are actually banned by the rest of the world because of this and how often are such killings occurring?
If muslims are supposed to hate non-believers this much, then why are so many living outside islamic countries - they aren't exactly doing the killings that many non-muslims claim Islam promotes - oh right, they are all lurking around for the big coup, to turn the country into an islamic one - by some magical way... I guess being idle can lead you somewhere.
Some years ago it was Counter-Strike and similar games that led some to become violent and even randomly kill people - or at least that's what some wanted us to believe. that was just a small thingy compared to religion.
Today a lot revolves around islam.. stuff happens, blame it on islam. Islam didn't appear yesterday, so why would muslims rise of off the sudden? Oh right.. I forgot again.. world wide coupe. The attention is changing politics. It makes it more serious but doesn't make the fear more true or valid. Politicians are people like the rest. If people in high places were that much better than the rest of us then we wouldn't have the financial crisis, would we?
Quran says "kill a non-believer" - but such examples are always used out of context - similarly, it's your right to defend yourself - but that doesn't mean you can wander around and randomly punch people of their faces, does it? a soldier can "kill and enemy", but that doesn't mean they can go on random killing spree because they felt everyone around them were enemies.
Lots of you are smart people but just need to see things a bit differently. A good start would be not to rely too much on one sided information.
Uh, nice - that makes the whole world a lot simpler to live in
But funny though because I worked with a guy only few months ago, and his Mac was at Gamma 2.2 (edit3: meh, I meant 1.8) :SEdit: Ok, this is wierd - the render looks brighter in Photoshop vs. FireFox although it shouldn't. Recent FireFox has color management and the default setting is set so that only images with a color profile are color managed. So basically images in PS and FireFox should look idendical, but my FireFox is displaying them as if there are non (dark), which is also why I assumed itsphilty was running on a G1.8 Mac.
I tried forcing it to color manage all pics and that didn't seem to change anything.. hm hm hm.
Edit2: My Firefox is working just fine according to this site: http://www.gballard.net/psd/go ... mbeddedJPEGprofiles.html# .. I'm confused now, lol
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It's too dark.
It's not too dark because I have a subjective taste towards brighter renders. I just know what to look for .. them pixels
Do you only render on Macs? Or are the critics mostly revolved around Mac related renders?
The first thing that pops into my mind, is that we are experiencing a "gamma conflict" here. You are most likely using Gamma 1.8 on your mac, while by far most ppl here (and all other PC/Win users) are on Gamma 2.2 displays - change your gamma to 2.2, and make sure it's 2.2 in the 3D app as well and you'll be set for the future.
Gamma 1.8 pics on Gamma 2.2 displays will always look darker.. except for pure white/very bright pics.. and pure black too, gah
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Gratz to ineX, spdo and Inferno 
rofl
Awesome - I'll be crossing my fingers for you
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