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https://www.behance.net/gallery/206268799/Make-Haste-Corp-The-Zelika-Race

Awesome CGI Work by Carlos Pecino A.K.A ColorSponge, Ash Thorp and Makehastecorp

Make Haste, a design group led by Carlos Pecino Albornoz (who goes by Colorsponge) and Ash Thorpe, recently released a brilliant series of renders of a vehicle they call 'The Zelika - R'.​​​​​​​

Make Haste Corp - The Zelika Race Automotive Design, CGI, Autodesk 3ds Max

https://youtu.be/UVCkMXbvE_E?si=gTtRbcHiDWC68dSc

Once you have your free CGI.Backgrounds account , you can begin to browse our collection of best-in-class HDRi Maps and Backplates.

Our collection is massive, with over 200,000 images captured from 7,000+ real-world locations!

To help you find the perfect HDRi Map or Backplate for your next render, we’ve built advanced search functions into the CGI.Backgrounds interface. This includes a powerful, AI-driven visual search engine.

In his latest video, David Baylis walks you through using our advanced search features to find the perfect content for your project.

Utilize the Search Function : Type in relevant keywords in the search bar to find backplates or HDRIs with matching tags in their metadata. You can view different camera heights for Backplates, and different lighting scenarios for many HDRi Maps.

Explore the AI Visual Search Tool : Enhance your search by using the AI visual search. Drag and drop an image or insert an image link to find similar backplates or HDRIs. You can even upload an image from your device and find similar, licensable materials within the CGI.Backgrounds collection.

Switch Between Backplate and HDRi Search : Easily toggle between searching for Backplates and HDRi Maps to find the perfect match for your project.

Refine Similar Images : Hover over a thumbnail and use the "Refine Similar Images" function to further narrow down your search results.
This uses CGI.Backgrounds’ advanced AI to locate similar images in the collection, based on the visual content and location of your target image. It saves a lot of time!

Chapter 1 - SignUp & Account Introduction In this video, David Baylis guides you through the process of registering an account on CGI Backgrounds. Learn how to sign up, verify your email, access your...

https://www.behance.net/gallery/209969725/Porsche-918-Spyder

Awesome CGI Work from Luiz Felipe

Backgrounds and RAY.HDRi Domes from CGI.Backgrounds.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/206274039/Make-Haste-Corp-C6-Corvette

Awesome CGI Work by Carlos Pecino A.K.A ColorSponge, Ash Thorp and Makehastecorp

Make Haste, a design group led by Carlos Pecino Albornoz (who goes by Colorsponge) and Ash Thorpe, recently released a brilliant series of renders of a vehicle they call The C6 Corvette.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/203793077/Ford-Mustang-Dark-Horse

FORD MUSTANG Drak Horse
By CGI Artist Dany Bullet

In July, we were excited to announce an exciting collaboration with Autodesk VRED . As we shared, you can now access several of our professional 3D scenes right within VRED, and we’re offering five VRED scenes to download for free via our website.

These scenes give professional 3D designers the tools they need to create compelling automotive renders, with our RAY.HDRi technology providing accurate lighting and visuals.
Designers are already leveraging this new tool!

Our July artist of the month is Dany Bullet of VRED Professional Renders. On his Behance page , Bullet shared beautiful renders of the 2024 Mustang Dark Horse created using one of our new VRED 3D scenes.

Bullet’s renders showcase this dramatic and powerful American muscle car tackling the corners of a race track, as captured in our free Race Track scene.

The late evening lighting of the scene–with magic hour sunlight gently illuminating the dramatic mountains in the rear of the shots–perfectly captures the visual concept of the Dark Horse branding.

And of course, the racetrack location is the ideal place to showcase the Dark Horse, which is designed to push performance to the max, relative to other Mustang models.
Bullet cleverly creates a variety of renders within the scene by strategically positioning his vehicle digital twin.

In one shot, the highly-directional rear lights of the Dark Horse form an arrow that meshes perfectly with the arrow-like markings on the racetrack’s barriers, as well as the movement of the vehicle itself.

These visual details suggest speed and high-performance handling, and the darker lighting highlights the Dark Horse’s lights perfectly.

Bullet raves about our RAY.HDRi Map format and our new digital scenes. His advice to other designers is simply, “You really want to test the Ray files,” which he says allow for independent “lighting between your 3D object and the HDR.”

Congrats to Bullet on earning our July 2024 Artist of the Month designation! Want to try our free VRED 3D scenes for yourself? Learn more and download them here.

For more Landscapes, Cityscapes, Automotive Backplate Images and 360 HDR Super Domes visit our website www.cgibackgrounds.com

https://www.behance.net/gallery/203034513/Ford-Mustang-Barricade

New Awesome CGI Work by Erik Markstaedter

Backplates and 360 HDRi Domes by CGI Backgrounds

Ford Mustang Barricade Awsome CGI Work by Erik Markstaedter

https://www.behance.net/gallery/200656615/The-Zelika-Baja

Awesome CGI Work by Carlos Pecino A.K.A Carlos Color Sponge, ASH THORP and Make Haste corp.

Make Haste, a design group led by Carlos Pecino Albornoz (who goes by Colorsponge) and Ash Thorpe, recently released a brilliant series of renders of a vehicle they call 'The Zelika - B'.

https://www.cgibackgrounds.com/blog/light-and-life-in-japan

Light and Life in Japan

If we didn’t have light, we couldn’t see. But this doesn’t mean people pay attention to light. We take it for granted because it’s always at our fingertips, force-fed to us, or in extreme cases - comes alive if we know how to make it.

But light is what gives the world and all objects in it their shape and is the fuel for most of what is in our minds.

Tokyo is a city that never sleeps, and its light is the heartbeat that keeps it alive. I’ve seen many places, but nothing quite like the way Tokyo lights up. It’s a place where light isn’t just there to see by, it’s there to feel. It’s raw, and it’s real.

Please click on the link to read the full article.
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Light and Life in Japan After spending a month in Japan, our CEO Randal Cu***ng shares a meditation on light and life in Japan

https://www.behance.net/gallery/196723797/1968-Plymouth-GTX

XTERMINATOR
- 1968 Plymouth GTX -
Awesome CGI Work by Carlos Pecino A.K.A Carlos Color Sponge, ASH THORP and Makehastecorp

Make Haste, a design group led by Carlos Pecino Albornoz (who goes by Colorsponge) and Ash Thorpe, recently released a brilliant series of renders of a vehicle they call 'The Xterminator'.

The Xterminator project is a celebration of the 1968 Plymouth GTX, an iconic American muscle car. Colorsponge says “embarking on this design journey, my vision was to breathe new life into the GTX and endow it with a voice that is refreshingly distinctive.”

American muscle cars are all about raw power, sensation, and sound. In creating renders of The Xterminator, Colorsponge used RAY.HDRi Maps from our collection that are gritty, authentic, and minimalist. This perfectly captures the ethos of American muscle cars.

Colorsponge's main render of The Xterminator shows the vehicle on a track with a stack of tires in soft focus in the foreground, and a series of mobile homes behind a concrete barrier in the background.

This render gives the impression that the viewer is peeking over a barrier at the edge of a racetrack toward the vehicle.

It’s an authentic and informal view, a perfect fit for the accessibility of muscle cars like the GTX. The render feels like it could be a cellphone photo– as if the viewer was walking around the track and happened upon this stunning, jet-black vehicle.

Colorsponge carries this aesthetic through in their other work, with detailed views captured in informal settings. Stark reflections in their 3D renders suggest images taken at high noon, with aggressive shadows mirroring the aggressive lines of the vehicle.

The fact that Colorsponge was able to achieve this is a testament to the versatility of our RAY.HDRi Maps and backplates.

You can take your vehicle to a beautifully lit street scene in Paris, but you can also use our collection to emphasize a different side of the motoring world, focused on raw power, authenticity, and accessibility of muscle cars.

“CGIBACKGROUNDS.COM is truly a game changer for our workflow using the amazing RAY.HDRi assets”, Colorsponge says. “Really impressed with the results they have. It’s just drag and drop!! I love them!"

No matter what you’re creating, CGI.Backgrounds is here to help. Want to use our industry-leading RAY.HDRi Maps and backplates in your own projects? Reach out to us or check out our plans and pricing page.


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https://www.cgibackgrounds.com/blog/testing-midjourney-s-new-character-references-for-automotive-rendering

Testing Midjourney's New Character References for Automotive Rendering

As we've explored in detail before , AI can be a powerful tool for creating 3D renders and exploring concepts.

The challenge with directly creating 3D renders using generative AI tools like Midjourney or DALL·E, however, has always been in their lack of specificity.

As we've explored, you can easily ask a system like Midjourney to create a render of a vehicle in New York City, or another common automotive rendering theme. It will create a dramatic and fairly realistic render.

The vehicle that it creates, however, generally looks nothing like any actual vehicle on the market. It’s often an amalgam of parts from different cars, combined with Midjourney's own hallucinations.

That makes it hard to use the output from these systems for anything other than ideation. Even demonstrating a concept using a vehicle that looks similar to a client product, for example, is nearly impossible.

A new addition to today's most powerful AI generator may soon change that.

The Launch of Character References

Last month, Midjourney Version 6 rolled out a powerful new feature called character references. The goal of this feature was to allow illustrators to preserve a consistent character between images when using the AI generator.

A children’s book illustrator, for example, could create a character once. They could then reuse that character in multiple additional images to illustrate an entire book with a consistent look and feel.

The feature is tuned specifically to duplicate the appearance of people or human-like characters. But we wondered whether the same feature could also be used to preserve the feel of a vehicle between generated automotive renders.

Testing Character References for Automotive Rendering

For our test, we used Midjourney Version 6, which is the most up-to-date version of the AI image generator. We asked for a scene of a Porsche on a coastal road, which is a common automotive rendering request.

You can read the whole article on our website, please click on the link.

Take a moment to enjoy the latest work from our March Artist of the Month. We share all the details on his process.

CGI.Backgrounds' Artist of the Month for March 2024: Sükrü Cengil We share stunning and emotional renders of the Porsche 911 Targa from our March 2024 Artist of the Month.

Light can tell powerful stories. Our March 2024 Artist of the Month excels at using light to tell powerful, moving visual narratives. See who we chose and read about his process here: https://www.cgibackgrounds.com/blog/cgi-backgrounds-artist-of-the-month-for-march-2024-suekrue-cengil

LED walls can take actors and props literally anywhere. That's part of why they're revolutionizing virtual production. Here's our deep dive into the tech. https://www.cgibackgrounds.com/blog/how-led-walls-work-in-virtual-production

The new Sora AI video generator from OpenAI creates dramatic videos of vehicles and people. How will it impact the space? Read our most recent blog post for our full analysis:

How OpenAI Sora Will Impact the 3D Rendering Industry We explore how the new Sora generative AI video platform from OpenAI will impact the 3D rendering industry

At first glance, OpenAI's Sora looks like a threat to 3D designers. But zoom in, and you'll see the hilarious reason it's not replacing human designers any time soon. Read More:

How OpenAI Sora Will Impact the 3D Rendering Industry We explore how the new Sora generative AI video platform from OpenAI will impact the 3D rendering industry

New Amazing Backplates and RAY.HDRi Domes from Utah and Colorado USA

https://www.behance.net/gallery/192044257/CGIBackgrounds-New-US-Production

Check Out Our Newest Imagery: Urban and Landscape Backplates for Your Automotive Renders

George Elef, our February Artist of the Month, blends technical mastery with artistic vision with these beautifully executed renderings of the Mercedes AMG. Read more about his process here: https://www.cgibackgrounds.com/blog/cgi-backgrounds-artist-of-the-month-for-february-2024-george-elef

https://www.behance.net/gallery/189344979/Maserati-Ghibli

Maserati Ghibli

Awesome CGI Work from Maurício Ferg

Backgrounds and RAY.HDRi Domes from CGI.Backgrounds.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/191216603/Porsche-GT3-S-Rennsport

Very nice CGI Work from Maximiliano Salas and Harry Poore.

Backgrounds and RAY.HDRi Domes from CGI.Backgrounds.

Our photographers travel to the most rugged, inhospitable spots on earth to capture amazing HDRi Maps and Backplates for your 3D renders. Check out our unique imagery from Iceland.

The Best Iceland HDRi Maps and Backplates for 3D Rendering We share the best Iceland HDRi Maps and Backplates from our collection, highlighting the Land of Fire and Ice

Take your renders to the land of Fire and Ice! Our Iceland HDRi Maps feature volcanic landscapes, glaciers, mountain roads, and aerial views from one of the world's most beautiful places. Use them today: https://www.cgibackgrounds.com/blog/the-best-iceland-hdri-maps-and-backplates-for-3d-rendering

https://www.behance.net/gallery/190860747/Porsche-992-by-Willian-Henrique

Awesome CGI Work by Willian Henrique
Backgrounds and RAY.HDRi Domes from CGI.Backgrounds.

How did our Artist of the Month create these amazing images? Here are more details on the exact process and tools: https://www.cgibackgrounds.com/blog/cgi-backgrounds-artist-of-the-month-for-january-2024-jacobo-rojo