Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars
The Photo Render, HDRI, and Backplates
A course by Davide Virdis , Automotive Media Designer
About the video: The Photo Render, HDRI, and Backplates
Overview
“The studio environment is not the only setting you can use to present the car. In this lesson, I will teach you how to place the car inside a photograph perfectly. ”
In this video lesson Davide Virdis addresses the topic: The Photo Render, HDRI, and Backplates, which is part of the Domestika online course: Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars. Learn to design and render livery for custom racing cars in Blender and bring them to life with eye-catching decals in Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Photo Render, HDRI, and Backplates In this lesson, I'll teach you how to perfectly place a car into a photograph. Now that I showed you how to present a car in a studio environment, let me show you how to place a car virtually anywhere. I will save this as a copy and I will call it "rsr domestika_Studio." Now, we have a safe copy of the stuff that we worked on so far because now, I will delete the lights and the backdrop. We don't need it anymore. We will place our 3D CGI object onto a real photograph. To do so, we need the help of our fSpy, which is available in the links of the cour...”
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Course summary for: Intro to 3D Livery Design: Decals for Digital Cars
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Category
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3D, 3D Modeling

Davide Virdis
A course by Davide Virdis
Davide Virdis is a classic car enthusiast and automotive media designer from Genoa, Italy. He specializes in creating liveries, which consists of designing the visual aspect of a racing car.
He helped manage the social media of Maserati’s Fuoriserie customisation program and collaborated in the design of McLaren's F1 livery at Abu Dhabi. He currently works for a variety of clients, including a renown design studio from Milan, where he does content creation. Alongside that, he also helps small car companies and racing teams to visualize their vehicles and design their liveries.
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