Here’s my first image on CGTalk. It is a Centauri car in the middle of a highly perilous brake test.
I wanted to call the car “Centauri” because I liked the idea of creating an automobile being a mix between a car and a motorbike.
I have modeled everything in 3D Studio Max, except for the crack in the asphalt, which was modeled in Max; the details were refined with ZBrush.
For the textures (here I must say that my work with 263 films in Milan and the quality of the work I came in touch with there has been extremely useful), I used some pictures I had made for this purpose which I then adapted in PhotoShop. All elements that have not been created by photocomposition were drawn by Wacom. The splashes on the windows come from a window of my apartment that I have spattered with water, make-up and earth, and then left to dry in the living room turned into a small set.
I rendered everything in Mental Ray with a single Skylight.
Finally, I post processed everything in PhotoShop, adding some smoke and making slight corrections to the colour gamut.
I hope you like it and look forward to your feedback.