I would look up Carter or Ben!

If you like Hand drawn Renders also Jason Rushforth is one of the best,has sketched some of the best cars our eyes have seen!

ooooops! Forgot about Jason...sorry Jay!!

Thanks guys! I talked with Ben several times and we will be working something out in the summer...as is evidence by everyone who has had work done by him, he's a very busy guy!:thumbsup: Super nice though and a lot of great ideas!

Dave

Hi Dave,

As I'm sure you've noticed from the responses, you've got lots of great options. On the hand-drawn side of things you've got great guys like Ben, Jason, John McBride, and several others. If you're looking for something in 3D, then there's always myself or Carter. I think you'll be very happy with your choice. Ben's a cool cat and everyone always enjoys seeing his work.

On a sidenote, it's cool to see the late 2nd-gen T/As getting more and more love these days! I've got one in the works as well (for a client though, not myself.)

Older thread, but..

If someone wanted to mess around and try to do a render of their own car - what is the popular software out there? These all look great - I really like the look of the CHD renders - what does he use?

Thanks
Jeff

PS - I'm painfully aware that whatever I design will likely resemble this:
http://www.moonbattery.com/flintstones_car.jpg

...but it would be fun to try ;)

If you're looking to do digital art, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are industry standards as far as 2D art. There's also tons of 3D modeling software like Solidworks, Modo, Rhino, 3DSMax, Maya, Alias and others.

For the most part I do a mix of hand drawn and digital for cost purposes, but I really enjoy doing art completely by hand.

Pencils, pens and bond paper are cheap to get your ideas down on.

Thanks for the tips. So it's common practice to do a sketch by hand, then layer over that in digital? I've been checking out some youtube vids but most of them are there to impress people with the speed at which artists can creat renderings....of course, it's hard to learn anything from that.

Jeff

Carter Does EXCELLENT work and highly recommend him. Great guy!:bow:
Check out his website!

Yes, that's what I do anyway. Line work must be rock solid as far as perspective and line weight so that it shows up in the digital file clearly. Then you use the path tool to generate crisp edges and reflections. Gradient stuff is done with the airbrush tool. There's no quick way to do a quality finished rendering.