One of 12 shots from the Mazda CX9 USA Brochure.

I was responsible for the lighting, shader creation, composition, rendering and re-touching. The car used was supplied CAD data in IGES format which required some optimization to maximize reliability in rendering. The photo back plate and HDRI were shot on location and required tone mapping and re-touching.

Two different renders were used by modifying instances of the same HDRI to ensure that the reflections in the side and the rear of the car were accurate. Using just one HDRI would have resulted in the reflections in either the side or the rear of the car blurring in the wrong direction!

Rendered in 3ds Max using RenderDrive, all post work in Photoshop.