What's WRONG With This Audi R8 Photo?

Could you wait forever? At least Audi can dream up a car and produce it. Toyota has been stuck in the dream-up stage for about a decade now.

well Toyota is going to take another 3 more years, since Infiniti showed up with Essance

Before reading the article I new it was fake. Pretty good job though.

The tires are a give-a-way but the car looks good

yeahh..the tires and the tailights kind of gave it away
reflections are very convincing though

Nah. In the reflections the buildings are directly lit by the sun, but from the background buildings and road it appears to be *just* after sunset. Also there is a break in the gray of the road.

It is certainly better than I would be able to do, but still far from the best photoshoped image I've seen.

I could tell you whats wrong with it even if all of the givens are not present. What actually makes this photo fake, are the mirrors because in v8 R8 mirrors were body color while the connection to the door was carbonfiber in the newer v10s its switched.( the whole mirror is carbon fiber) Anyone else notice this?

ya. And the lack of definition on the roads and how shiny it is, despite the lack of lighting. but yes, its a very realistic looking fake.

I'll buy that one for sure. Almost the same thing for a less more money!

I've already seen old NSX with Ferrari body kit, guess that next project will be an old Type R with this body kit

This is an absolute joke, how much did they pay you to write this?

This is CG straight from 1998, the work is absolutley terrible and there is so much wrong with the render it's not even funny.

Here is a good 3d car - http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=442429
And it was done in 2006. There's photoreal work in cars going back as far as 2001, so saying this poor excuse is the 'next level' is laughable.

Yes, this is really a bad rendering of a bad low poly model. It looks like done in entry level 3D software from ten years ago.

I think most people think that 3D renderings are bad, because they only recognize the bad renderings and asume the good ones to be photographs.

Today most cars you see in advertising (print or TV/movies) are 3D renderings, because it is much cheaper to render than to do real shots.

In Germany there are some well known companies for doing top notch renderings for Daimler, BMW, VW, Audi... like Mackevision or zerone-cgi.

I've seen test renderings from zerone that imitated a well known Mercedes ad (which was a real photograph). You couldn't tell which was CG and which was the 'real' one. Even after close examination of A3 prepress quality print-outs, I had only a vague idea, that DOF in the rendering looked like a 2D post effect and not like real 3D DOF.

But: real advertising photographs get heavily 'photoshoped', so it could be a fake DOF in the real picture...

BTW: this companies get the NURBS CAD data from the car manufacturers engineering departments, they don't use low or mid poly 3D models modeled in some DCC app with subdivision surfaces.

You can judge by the continuity of reflections, if it's a well engineered NURBS surface or some poly/subdiv fake.

Does Audi even offer the R8 in yellow?

I dont think so. Never seen one in yellow. But my 1st impression when I saw the pic was LAMBO!

Its more of a aluminum foil-gold than yellow. Which means it would be rediculously shiny.

And the tires suck

yeah looks very real, but if u look closely at the tires, it can still be noticed.

JUGNU

Wow!

Looks like a screen grab from an Xbox360 game. CG (computer graphics), but so what?

This article misses the point of the breakthrough here... The company whose engine created this image says it has created a system that will render the above graphic 20x faster than current computer rendering.

Using "ray tracing" - which sends rays from the "camera lens" and traces its bounce path back to the light source, based on the materials it hits in the 3D image model - you can create photorealistic images, but are usually limited by the time it takes to calculate all those rays of light in a complex scene. The Wikipedia entry on ray tracing explains it better than I have, but the point is that you can make images that look like photos.

The Audi rendering in this article is not designed to look like a photo, but could definitely be rendered by your home computer or gaming console at higher frame-rates in the near future.

On the other hand, if you keep the same frame-rate, but still have that higher processing speed, you can quickly make images that look even more like the real thing than the Audi in this article.