CGI.Backgrounds' Artist of the Month for July 2024: Dany Bullet

In July, we were excited to announce an exciting collaboration with Autodesk VRED . As we shared, you can now access several of our professional 3D scenes right within VRED, and we’re offering five VRED scenes to download for free via our website.
These scenes give professional 3D designers the tools they need to create compelling automotive renders, with our RAY.HDRi technology providing accurate lighting and visuals.
Designers are already leveraging this new tool! 
Our July artist of the month is Dany Bullet of VRED Professional Renders. On his Behance page , Bullet shared beautiful renders of the 2024 Mustang Dark Horse created using one of our new VRED 3D scenes.
Bullet’s renders showcase this dramatic and powerful American muscle car tackling the corners of a race track, as captured in our free Race Track scene.
The late evening lighting of the scene–with magic hour sunlight gently illuminating the dramatic mountains in the rear of the shots–perfectly captures the visual concept of the Dark Horse branding. 
And of course, the racetrack location is the ideal place to showcase the Dark Horse, which is designed to push performance to the max, relative to other Mustang models.
Bullet cleverly creates a variety of renders within the scene by strategically positioning his vehicle digital twin. 
In one shot, the highly-directional rear lights of the Dark Horse form an arrow that meshes perfectly with the arrow-like markings on the racetrack’s barriers, as well as the movement of the vehicle itself. 
These visual details suggest speed and high-performance handling, and the darker lighting highlights the Dark Horse’s lights perfectly.
Bullet raves about our RAY.HDRi Map format and our new digital scenes. His advice to other designers is simply, “You really want to test the Ray files,” which he says allow for independent “lighting between your 3D object and the HDR.”
Congrats to Bullet on earning our July 2024 Artist of the Month designation! Want to try our free VRED 3D scenes for yourself? Learn more and download them here.

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  • Thomas Smith

    Director of Communications

    Thomas Smith is a professional journalist, photographer, and CEO of Gado Images, an AI-driven content agency. Smith uses his degree in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University and 10+ years of photography industry experience to provide insight on industry trends.