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okay folks...i think i'm ready...tear it to shreds!!!

Very nice overall.
The car paint can look better. It almost looks like velvet.

Very nice work!

thanks for the comments guys.

nice work but the cars let it down.

I avoid using low poly cars unless they really are far from the camera. Even then I use at least 3 materials in the model: body, glass and tyres.

The trouble with the texturing on these lp cars is that the lighting is already baked in and usually they're a single mat which is unrealistic - ie the glass is not transparent and the same mat qualities are used for all parts.

There are a few good car collections around with proper materials or at least good poly/nurb groups so you can assign materials. Dosch Design even have a collection with maxwell mats already setup (although I do my own), it might be worth giving these a go.

Good surfacing on the tarmac and I can see you've put the effort in to avoid textures repeating - but maybe the 'patchiness' needs toning down a wee bit.

really nice rendering. i can picture some local design review board people looking at this and getting really confused: "is this already built?"

it would be nice to see inside a bit, but maybe that's a separate and more close-up view.

thanks Cadhorn - scene at the planning commision: an older lady with red hair and too much perfume says "wait, wait, wait...we didn't approve this... ". she likes to throw her weight around. ha ha.
i agree that a shot with some of the interior modeled would be very nice.

faraz - i've gotten several comments on the cars. these were free from lowpolygon but i'll check out the dosch collections for the next one. thanks.