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  • BennyGreenberg, on 07/07/2008, -8/+5The vette is incredible!
    • wadester2489, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2Correction. The Vette is terrible.
    • warsongs7, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1I OBJECT!!!!!!!!!! The most awesome is the 350Z.
  • itsbrat, on 07/07/2008, -6/+1Lovely design! jst amazing!
  • pingpants, on 07/07/2008, -1/+19The gray ambient light and ground surface aren't helping the Carrera GT.
  • louiebaur, on 07/07/2008, -8/+3I could see myself rolling in that vette for sure!
  • zedragon, on 07/07/2008, -1/+9I wonder if car websites like honda or ford use cg instead of the real thing...

    nvm that is a stupid question. Of course they do!
    • norman619, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3They use CG as well as real photos. :-)
      • Virgule, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1no, they take photos of CG stuffs.

        /smug
    • hippykiller, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2I dugg you up for admitting your mistake.
  • DarkBrother, on 07/07/2008, -5/+2Wow , look at that Audi A8 6.0 QUATTRO.
  • PFS1, on 07/07/2008, -6/+25Those images are good work that would take talent, but for a post called "most realistic cg cars", a lot of them aren't terribly realistic...they are simply too stylized and don't look real at all. Along with the F1 racer and a one or two other from that page, THIS would be a good example of a realistic cg car:
    http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/7289/mustangey1 ...
    • anagoge, on 07/07/2008, -1/+5Whoa.
    • Llanowar, on 07/07/2008, -2/+26With such a pic we should be asking proof if it is actually CG. That's crazy realistic.
    • hawtpawkithero, on 07/07/2008, -1/+8The only thing with that picture I can spot with my eye is that the car's contrast isn't that of the rest of the picture, but it's pretty damn close.
    • ghostoftomjoad, on 07/07/2008, -6/+12Umm. That isn't a cg car.
    • Tempest811, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7Yes it is a CG car. Look at the rear wing's contrast levels versus the background's.
      I do CG trust me this is fantastic work. The hardest thing to match is the flawed nature of real photos.
    • MasterThief117, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2Wow. Another thing that gives it away are the tires. They hover slightly.
    • nogChoco, on 07/07/2008, -2/+3There's no cameraman reflected (and the reflection map is not quite correct anyway) = CG.
    • Drazzim12, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1For starters, there seems to be four or five point lights illuminating the car (there should be just one- the sun.)

      Amazing work though. I'd be interested in the artists name or wireframe or something. I'm still not completely convinced it's CG.
    • Quizboy, on 07/07/2008, -3/+2One stupid comment starts an avalanche of idiotic comments. He's saying if a cg car could look like the REAL car in his example, then it would be realistic. How about you try and make a cg car look like that and then give your opinion about whether those are good cg's or not.

      Unless I'm missing some big group sarcastic joke here.
      • cave, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Impressive model, but the reflections are much too harsh.
      • PFS1, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3I'm afraid you're reading far too much into my "stupid comment". That's a CG car that I pulled from cgtalk over 4 years ago because I was so impressed with the detail that went into it and how real it looked. The fact that you believed it to be real only goes to prove how good a piece of work it is compared to the majority of images in the linked article, which is the point I was trying to make. For proof it is CG, look at the reflection as it wraps around the front right bumper. There is absolutely no reflection of anything that could be taking that picture.

        Also, calm down a bit.
      • richardle, on 07/08/2008, -2/+1Okay.. if you seriously believe this is a CG, you're just plain pathetic. GO STUDY PHOTOGRAPHY. I'm a photographer and this is just a ***** picture if anything.
  • NathanCH, on 07/07/2008, -2/+3280% of car commercials are CG.
    • InfiniteNothing, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2If car makers can use CG in ads I wonder if we'll see CG burgers next.
      • beingdevious, on 07/07/2008, -0/+5you probably already have. they're setting you up for:

        --"im eating a burger that's not real, it tastes like crap! i want what was in the ad"
        --"what was in the ad was fake, you got what you wanted, goodbye!"
    • lougoose, on 07/07/2008, -0/+457% of statistics are made up on the spot.
  • Icecream, on 07/07/2008, -2/+2495% of cars are CG
    • MacBandit, on 07/07/2008, -9/+278.3% of all percentages are made up on the spot.




      Including this one..............
    • thepretext, on 07/07/2008, -0/+486% of CG is cars
    • Kral, on 07/07/2008, -0/+950% of the letters in CG appear in CAR.
    • Lynx34, on 07/07/2008, -1/+5100% of Pixar's "Cars" is CG.
    • hippykiller, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2Wait... So you are telling me that 95% of the cars I see on the drive into work are not even real.. WOW this changes everything.
    • kiensoy, on 07/07/2008, -0/+595% of diggers are OGC
  • alpha88, on 07/07/2008, -7/+2LIES they're REAL...


    maybe...


    O_O
    • Danby123, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1Lies are real???? That blows my mind....
  • DoctuhJason, on 07/07/2008, -1/+13I drive a CG.
    • amanilaenvelope, on 07/07/2008, -0/+15Do you get 40 mega pixels a gallon? (MPG)
  • Llanowar, on 07/07/2008, -2/+4I don't really think cars (with the rare exception) are really all that great CG to look at.
    Sure, I can't do it. But still, compare them to the landscape CG article of yesterday and they fail in comparison.
    When it comes to CG I think cars belong to the easier things.
  • morninglorii, on 07/07/2008, -1/+13100% of cars are not owned by me :(
  • MacBandit, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3114 diggs and it's burried. Anyone have a mirror.
  • n1ck877, on 07/07/2008, -8/+2http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:iSh-yEvy7S4J: ...
  • BigE89, on 07/07/2008, -1/+4150 diggs and the server is down :(
  • sarixe, on 07/07/2008, -4/+9Failed to Connect

    Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.cg-files.com.

    Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection.

    * Could the site be temporarily unavailable? Try again later.
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  • Xpletive, on 07/07/2008, -0/+8mirror?
  • aenegeling, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2while the CG cars are great, that website needs a lot of work done on it.
  • ghostoftomjoad, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1mirror!
  • ironcrotch, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4How is this getting dugg up if the site doesn't work?
  • JKAL, on 07/07/2008, -0/+19how about putting them on a most realistic server.
  • lfroker, on 07/07/2008, -2/+6http://maurozea.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/most-real ...
  • thepretext, on 07/07/2008, -1/+260% of the time the digg effect works, every time.
    • Xpletive, on 07/07/2008, -2/+1"the digg effect works every time, 60% of the time" would have been funny.
      • arbernaut, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0...yeah, but then it wouldn't have referenced Brian Fantana from Anchorman...
    • mentor972, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1"That doesn't even make sense."
  • JPDyno, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4I work at a large car company, and the vast majority of press pictures or brochure pictures of new models are CG. They have a department within the design studios dedicated to making realistic renders.

    I cant really comare to these ones though, because i cant see them
  • S68x, on 07/07/2008, -2/+1Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.cg-files.com.

    *sigh*
  • DanQuist, on 07/07/2008, -1/+4Three cars? Come on we need better than that.
  • skalover, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2the first two I can really tell, but that corvette looks great, seeing as though I have the same one in my garage out back.
  • MasterThief117, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1When the time comes where computer generated images are very difficult, if not impossible to tell from reality, then, well...I actually don't know where I am going with this.
  • Andrewbot, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1bunkspeed.com

    More specifically, http://bunkspeed.com/gallery.html under "Automotive Design"

    They do various car-magazine covers, stuff like that.
    • arbernaut, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1Sorry, but most of the CG cars from Bunkspeed look PS3 or XBox game renders. They're not fooling anyone.
  • GreatOne08, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Sweeeeeet!
  • sevenalive, on 07/07/2008, -3/+1why aren't these cars in video games like GT and Forza? Its possible to make them look this real, so why hasn't the video game industry?
    • morouxshi, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3There's a big difference when you are making a still render of a car than when you need the model to be rendered in real time. In GT and Forza you have to take into consideration light changes and shadow casting while going around the track. When you just put a car static you can then do various renders and pick and choose which render you like best and even render the scene in various passes getting more and more detailed every time. Belive me, they'd love to be able to do that in video games, we're just not there yet. GT and Forza are working around the clock to make it happen though.
  • lougoose, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2*****
  • Uoila, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2I don't doubt that these could be real. CG is pretty amazing these days, but there is no way to tell.
  • diemunkiesdie, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1The Land Rover on the second page looks pretty realistic.
    • ehamberg, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0It looks like a model made of five cubes in an introductory 3D course.
      Oh, wait, that's actually how the Land Rover looks like!
  • cryonix, on 07/07/2008, -2/+2Cars are honestly real easy to make "realistic" show me a gallery of "realistic" faces or animals then we'll talk. ~3D artist.
    • cave, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1I don't know why you're getting dugg down. Human-made materials are the easiest to replicate in 3d, it's organic stuff that is a challenge.
      • cryonix, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Thank you, someone who understands that an object that was originally designed on a computer recreated in 3d (also on a computer), isn't really that hard.
  • wedges, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1this list is kind of stupid, since most cars in most ads are fake these days, and nobody seems to notice.
  • richardle, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2What considers these CG? I don't see anything CG about these at all. All these cars are real and all you need to make them look "CG" is knowing how to manipulate light. These are works of great photographers. Take for example that Audi A8. I have no clue how that could look CG. The only CG thing about it would be getting rid of the rig that was attached to the car. The photo was simply taken using a rig attached to the car and then later cloned out using any editing program. As for no person behind the wheel, you don't need to be moving the car fast for it to look fast. Just having someone push the car in neutral at about 2 miles per hour for a few feet would get the effect especially with a stable rig and long shutter speed. No offense, but I feel you guys are ignorant for calling all this stuff CG. These are real cars and it's purely light manipulation to get them to look this way. It's awesome work by great artist, but nothing near CG, that's for sure.
    • morninglorii, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Umm...
      Correct me if I'm wrong, but the definition of computer-generated (with regards to graphics) is that the image/images were entirely generated by a computer, rather than an altered photo of an object that exists in real life. No matter how photo-realistic something looks, if it's generated by a computer, it's CG.

      If you're suggesting that the person who posted these on cg-files.com is lying, that's another matter. But until you can prove otherwise, the "they look too realistic" argument is really just a credit to the artists.
    • richardle, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0I know what I'm talking about. These are real cars. They're not "computer generated." It's a photo that is manipulated so well it looks fake. It's almost the exact opposite of CG in a sense.
    • neurobasics, on 07/23/2008, -0/+0you should go to siggraph and report back.
  • richardle, on 07/07/2008, -1/+0Btw, if those photos are all CG, then these must all be CG too.

    http://www.stevedemmitt.com/

    NOT! Just the work of an amazing photographer.
  • zaptoman, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Lambo wins. Hands down.
  • alexs5, on 07/07/2008, -1/+0Could someone clarify what they mean by CG for me? I know it's 'computer generated', but does that mean the people who made these photos literally started with NOTHING but a blank canvas in photoshop or something and just started drawing? Surely these are mostly just manipulated photos? Pardon my ignorance...
    • Vindicoth, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1CG models of things are generally not done with just one tool, or photoshop at all. They generally use things like 3DSMax, Maya, or open source projects like Blender.

      First you have to create the 3D model, then they create textures, lighting, shaders, all sorts of things to make it look more realistic. Once all thats done they have to spend a large amount of time rendering those pictures in high detail. If they wanted to they could even animate it and make a short clip, but animating is a whole other skill to master.
    • richardle, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0As Vindicoth said, that is what CG is. Unfortunately, these photos are not true CG. These are actual photographs that have been tweeked in editing software.
  • Monkeydew06, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1Seems we won't need reality much longer... I for one welcome our upcoming digital overlords.
  • thebestmofo, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Where's Lightning McQueen?
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