Reading around cardesignnews.com’s forum I found this thread about the hypershot rendering software.
It seems to be a friendly user rendering software: The one that we are all looking for…maybe…
However see by yourself at the Hypershot website.
I didn’t already have the opportunity to try it, I’m waiting to have something to render! You can download a 15 days trial version.
Watch the renderings: magic?!
A free AliasStudio 2008 trial is available on the Autodesk website.
Autodesk AliasStudio Personal Learning Edition (PLE) (free Trial) :)
2007-09-03 update: With this PLE version you will have watemark in you’re render, and you will also be unable to import the PLE files to the full AliasStudio version!!! :(
Autodesk announced today the latest version of its AliasStudio Personal Learning Edition software. The Personal Learning Edition (PLE) is a special version of Autodesk AliasStudio 2008 software that provides free* access to the products for non-commercial use. The AliasStudio 2008 PLE provides a custom interface and learning resources that allow industrial designers to learn the basic tools and techniques of AliasStudio and help them become productive quickly.
Autodesk AliasStudio PLE includes a full set of tutorials that provides designers with a typical concept design workflow. These tutorials introduce the powerful tools and interactive features of Autodesk AliasStudio 2008 and demonstrate how to effectively accomplish concept design with detailed step-by-step instructions and videos. Additional learning materials include an AliasStudio to Rhino transition guide, design workflow videos and printable references on essential model and rendering basics
After I found the Dustin Brown’s IdBoost Blog (read more about his blog…), I found out that he released this dvd about lighting and rendering in Alias StudioTools.
This is dvd contains 7 commented videos about 1 hour each.
For a good description of the content check at the Gnomon work shop’s website
I learn a lot, especially about the shaders:
The way to use multiple shaders in ‘layer-shader’ to get multiple effects applied to one surface, becoming more used to all the shaders’s parameters, the way to preview the shaders directly in the selector by setting up an environment…Many stuffs that I even don’t know they were existing!
I might also say that I liked the way Dustin is instructing, commenting each of his action. He also don’t get embarrassed to move a light about 8 times: I like this part because it shows the beginners, as I am, that there’s nothing ‘magic’, it’s work!
These video have also another interest: Just watching someone working with Alias StudioTools, his setup, his marking menu, etc…
I wasn’t oriented to learn about renderings in StudioTools, because reading the forums about 3d, I find out that most of the people are using V-ray, Brazil… To keep my focus on learning StudioTools modeling technics, I choose to render in Alias ImageReady (Wich by the way is using V-ray) because of it’s simplicity.
However it’s good to know what are the possibilities of a software that you want to work with.
So here are the result of the practice that I proposed in this post: Studiotools practice - Modeling an Audi S5 spoke. Nobody join me in this modeling :( I had a good time anyway!
So as I wished, I spend some time (2 days) on exploring the renderings ways. I did them in imagestudio which appears to me not to be a good rendering software, I hate the aleatory way to place the lights, but that have the advantage to be quiet simple and have a clean interface.
I did, ‘for fun’, a little bit post production in photoshop (modifying the background and inserting the logo)
I’m posting the screen shots of the modeling. I start a thread about this mag on the www.cg-car.com’s forum. There are some interesting and constructive comments about the errors in the modeling. However, as this was only a step of the Audi S5’s modeling, I won’t spend more time on correcting these errors…I should have…
The screen shot are not commented, but just to let you know, the major problem I encountered was (as often it seems in AliasStudio) filleting with the round tool. I finally have to do some part by ‘hands’: the fillets joining the ‘ring (thumbnail #9 down here).
As usual, comments, questions, are welcome!
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