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Its finally finished!!! This took the better part of three months worth of work. I originally started this last year in March and worked on it a little then and again in june. I finally got around to dedicating my time to it just after I finished the image titled "Minami Yaguchi." Three of the characters from this image ended up as space filler in the Minami image and in turn I ended up putting her and the D3 character in this image for fun. I have to admit I am glad I didn't finish this last year at any time cause looking back over the images I have finished since I started this one I realize how much I learned doing those images and how that knowledge was used here!

I have to confess that from the beginning I had an idea of what I wanted but wasn't sure how it was all going to fit if it was going to fit at all. I wanted 8 people per side in the foregound around the cars and their drivers but due to space and camera angle I had to change things. As a result one guy is missing from the crowd on the right and the two girls standing at the back next to the Lotus were suppose to be with the crowd on the left. I may do up a collage of test renders that show somewhat how progress went.

I can't say there was any one thing that was easy about this. I quite enjoy the challenge of posing characters for my scenes but I have to be honest it was something else piecing this together when I didn't even know how I was going to fit the next character in. After the poses were finished I was at a stand still trying to figure out if I should start on the lighting or the surfaces next. An idea finally poped into my head and that was to do up all the surfaces under what I considered to be good daylight lights cause if the surfaces look good under daylight, they will look just as good at night. I am so glad I did it that way too!!!!!

If anyone is looking to pull off something this size or even smaller the best advice I can give is to set everyone up as seperate saved scenes and then merge them all together (but do not save) for the render.

You will all have to forgive me as I will not be listing the complete credits or even close to what all was used.

Basic Credits:
A3 x 11,H3 x 9, M3 x 1 & D3 x 1
Backstreets, The Warehouse District and Urban Sprawl II by Stonemason
FF Tuner, Elite Racer and the Wraith by Dreamscape Creations
Lounge Mobile by Uzilite
Some free stuff for H3
Loads of stuff from DAZ3D
Most A3 characters by Thorne and Sarsa (Sylfie is front and center and Mulberry is in there twice!)
4 characters have Sunglasses
All but 2 guys have hair by Neftis
pwSurface2 is on all visable surfaces except eyes

Poses, Lights & Expressions by me.

No one is wearing any underware and sorry there is no Waldo to be found either!

~Created and Rendered in DAZ|STUDIO ~ - Light glow effect and the starfield were added in The Gimp. Other then that there is no post work!

Description
Its finally finished!!! This took the better part of three months worth of work. I originally started this last year in March and worked on it a little then and again in june. I finally got around to dedicating my time to it just after I finished the image titled "Minami Yaguchi." Three of the characters from this image ended up as space filler in the Minami image and in turn I ended up putting her and the D3 character in this image for fun. I have to admit I am glad I didn't finish this last year at any time cause looking back over the images I have finished since I started this one I realize how much I learned doing those images and how that knowledge was used here!

I have to confess that from the beginning I had an idea of what I wanted but wasn't sure how it was all going to fit if it was going to fit at all. I wanted 8 people per side in the foregound around the cars and their drivers but due to space and camera angle I had to change things. As a result one guy is missing from the crowd on the right and the two girls standing at the back next to the Lotus were suppose to be with the crowd on the left. I may do up a collage of test renders that show somewhat how progress went.

I can't say there was any one thing that was easy about this. I quite enjoy the challenge of posing characters for my scenes but I have to be honest it was something else piecing this together when I didn't even know how I was going to fit the next character in. After the poses were finished I was at a stand still trying to figure out if I should start on the lighting or the surfaces next. An idea finally poped into my head and that was to do up all the surfaces under what I considered to be good daylight lights cause if the surfaces look good under daylight, they will look just as good at night. I am so glad I did it that way too!!!!!

If anyone is looking to pull off something this size or even smaller the best advice I can give is to set everyone up as seperate saved scenes and then merge them all together (but do not save) for the render.

You will all have to forgive me as I will not be listing the complete credits or even close to what all was used.

Basic Credits:
A3 x 11,H3 x 9, M3 x 1 & D3 x 1
Backstreets, The Warehouse District and Urban Sprawl II by Stonemason
FF Tuner, Elite Racer and the Wraith by Dreamscape Creations
Lounge Mobile by Uzilite
Some free stuff for H3
Loads of stuff from DAZ3D
Most A3 characters by Thorne and Sarsa (Sylfie is front and center and Mulberry is in there twice!)
4 characters have Sunglasses
All but 2 guys have hair by Neftis
pwSurface2 is on all visable surfaces except eyes

Poses, Lights & Expressions by me.

No one is wearing any underware and sorry there is no Waldo to be found either!

~Created and Rendered in DAZ|STUDIO ~ - Light glow effect and the starfield were added in The Gimp. Other then that there is no post work!