Custom Paint creation schematic by dangeruss

Custom Paint creation schematic by dangeruss

For Max nerds only.

Here's an insight to how I created a very challenging composite paint material for a 3D drift car project:

joshpurple Featured By Owner Dec 9, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Nice!!! Your work is outstanding

! Always great to see it. Hope Jeff Patton has, does, or will connect with you

khorask Featured By Owner Nov 3, 2012

thanks for the info

megatama Featured By Owner Oct 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

wow.. what a complex material setting.
been wondering me all the time, how did you unwrap without stretching the map?
You said using a shellac material, how much you blend it if I may know?

illused Featured By Owner Sep 21, 2012

-if only- I had the kind of time it takes me to do 3d cars. great stuff.

SniperK9 Featured By Owner Aug 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

hey i just wanna know what software did u actually use for modelling these???

is it Autodesk Max OR Maya OR something else........
please reply to this ,,,,,

I m Curious

Nice work though......

dangeruss Featured By Owner Aug 30, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

In all my 3D art descriptions you will find "3D Studio MAX - Vray - Photoshop". I assume this clears up your question.

SniperK9 Featured By Owner Sep 6, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thanks mate

japanass Featured By Owner Aug 27, 2012

i don't use max BUT i understand - thanks for sharing!

Sigmaviper11 Featured By Owner Aug 22, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Dude. . . serious Kudos for pulling that off.

OpenGL Featured By Owner Aug 22, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

excellent! thanks for sharing!

ATC-Design Featured By Owner Aug 17, 2012

thought some sort of masking would be the logical choice, never the less very nice work and a beautiful recreation of a stunning car!
Certainly worth all the effort

8FtSpider Featured By Owner Aug 15, 2012 Professional Artist

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing!

somej Featured By Owner Aug 15, 2012

thanks for manual

taibu Featured By Owner Aug 15, 2012

Hmm my vray not include carpaint material

... sniff

jameslink Featured By Owner Aug 15, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I've tried understanding this stuff for years in max. I never did get too far despite spending hundreds, if not thousands of hours in that program. You're using UVUnwrap for the masking and paint separation (texture #17) -- ??? I wish I could wrap my head around this.

wizzoo7 Featured By Owner Aug 15, 2012

OH WOW awesome job on the tutorial and thanks for sharing your knowledge I mean this is just proves why your work is top notch !!

criarpo Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2012 Professional General Artist

looks complicated!

FaustGT Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I waiting for this!

vasos82 Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

It's very nice and very clever !!

joetakacs Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

sick, good job, as always

Do you usually use the standard VRayCarPaint Material for your paints or a Blend Material?

dangeruss Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Not really - since most of my paints are a base coat - clear coat type, I typically use a shellac material with two Vray materials of differing specular and reflective qualities to emulate a metallic base coat with broad highlights and lo reflectivity and then a gloss coat that his quite reflective with strong highlights.

The Vray carpaint mat is a pretty weird beast. I'm not always happy with the results. The flakes never seem to cooperate the way I think they should.

joetakacs Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Ah right cool. Yeah ive just been using the VrayCarPaint but like you say, its not always the best. Ill have to have a play around with the shellac method, ive seen a few examples of it lying about, i just need to devote more time to the materials as there just as important as the model in a sense!

Affet-kak Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2012

wow nice

you sir are a max god

Rujero Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2012 Hobbyist Filmographer

thanks for sharing

young-chief Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thats very interesting, took me a while to try to understand the need of so many elements in the shader tree but it does increase your abiity to control and customize it as you want. Anyway enough with my brief rant rant i wonder if i can duplicate this method in maya, Thanks for sharing.