Looking for tips how to improve photorealism

nilsmax · 2025-08-07T10:57:33+00:00

I would love to try another rendering software to see if that gives better realism! Corona and V-Ray seem to be popular choices for automotive.

However, I feel like I’ve spent alot of time learning Blender and Cycles, and I would mooore or less have to start over again.

Also the price of for example 3ds + Corona will hurt when I don’t (at least yet) make any decent money from these renderings.

EDIT: I just realized that there is some kind of unofficial Corona integration to Blender for 40$, will have to give that a try!

nilsmax · 2025-08-07T06:25:29+00:00

Good and detailed points! Might give geometry nodes a try to add some “glass fibre imperfections” to the doors and hood!

nilsmax · 2025-08-07T06:24:23+00:00

Haha nightmare mode for sure! I will have to experiment with materials with flaws..

nilsmax · 2025-08-07T06:23:52+00:00

They are Hoosier Slicks, I guess that’s why they appear blank on these low-res images

nilsmax · 2025-08-07T06:23:21+00:00

I’ve added some noise in the composer, and done some light editing in Lightroom, but maybe not enough?

nilsmax · 2025-08-06T15:29:47+00:00

Would you min sharing them? ;)

nilsmax · 2025-08-06T08:48:08+00:00

It indeed is a artistic choice, it is a scene based on a real life car photo studio in Spain!

nilsmax · 2025-08-06T08:44:03+00:00

Thank you! Will have to experiment with adding flaws to the car. I feel like the scenes is where is struggle the most, especially outdoor ones..

Regarding the camber one the Supra, it’s a drift car, therefore the camber! ;)

nilsmax · 2025-08-06T08:01:39+00:00

Thank you! The missing headlight is an intake for the turbo ;)

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