This is not a wheel.

[Banshee]

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5827/7zs1.jpg


http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/8435/8pj6.jpg


Any suggestions/or ideas?

[Ollie]

Thats a sweet rim you got!

Love the way the lips gradually go inwards...


One suggestion... teach meeee!!!

[Banshee]

S'yer MSN?

[5oX]

great rim
sorta
real

[Ollie]

Post teh black onnneee!!

[Flippy]

Nice, though the (absence of?) reflection on the spokes look a bit weird, might be cause of the angle though...

how do you make the background? How do you line it up perfectly and how do you create a shadow on it..? :S

[Shayn]

looks a tiny bit noisy/grainy/err wotever.... but nce and simple design and accurate modelling... i like it

[buckas]

nice stuff james dude =)

Nice, though the (absence of?) reflection on the spokes look a bit weird, might be cause of the angle though...

how do you make the background? How do you line it up perfectly and how do you create a shadow on it..? :S

matte shadow invisible plane + hdri

[Realystic]

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5929/8pj61ng4.jpg

Hope you understand what i mean.

You should raise the "Refl. Glossiness" of spokes, lip is okay, though, too blurred reflections, you should raise it too, but don't put same values, makes it cheap.

[Flippy]

Nice, though the (absence of?) reflection on the spokes look a bit weird, might be cause of the angle though...

how do you make the background? How do you line it up perfectly and how do you create a shadow on it..? :S

matte shadow invisible plane + hdri

oooo kkk... ^^
i think i know what you mean :P the matte shadow invis plane is what creates the shadow while the plane the wheel is standing on is invisible, and hdri puts the background there...
i know how to make hdri reflections but i only ever used HDR files for the background which are always very distorted and bad quality if you look at them directly.. and i dont know how to control the angle of the background so it lines up with the object...

[Digimods]

Thats a sweet rim you got!


That's not the first time he's been told that.

[Banshee]

Thats a sweet rim you got!


That's not the first time he's been told that.



I detect a joke.



I rate it -12 on the Amusement Scale(©)

[Pete]

very nice , shouldn't the studded part of the rim be black too?

put it on a car..