[WIP] 1950s isometric cars (C+C wanted)

[The Mozack]

Looks close to completion. Anything else I have to do before I start work on transparency?

[The Mozack]

Transparency test.

[Batzy]

The shadows seem to be a lot lighter when comparing first car and the second 

Fantastic work with both cars KEEP IT UP !!!

[The Mozack]

The shadows seem to be a lot lighter when comparing first car and the second  

Been working on it. But the shadow in the first car is by no means perfect, since it still looks unusual against saturated backgrounds. The final shadow should be similar.

For this car, the layer mask and shadow had to be tweaked multiple times before I got it right. Among others, darker base colors had to be used for the two tones for the shadows.


Figures it's enough with this one. It should be good to go.

[Jad]

WUAAARGH

the top line of highlights that hug the outline but is broken up *  __   * it's noise and banding at the same time, anti-aa. This piece is way too good to have those kinds of shenanigans going on, they hurt, on the pixel level.

Unify your pixel clusters, give them coherent shape, rather simplify than complicate things (and I can see you're quite familiar with this concept too)

Actually construction and basic shading are obviously your strongest points, and basic anti-alias seems to be something you should improve.

So either get better at that AA or ditch it altogether, it'll make your pieces happy!

[The Mozack]

Oh noes, it has come back to haunt me!

But seriously, it's C+C long overdue. Very.

[The Mozack]

OK.

Added a darker light red shading for facilitate fix. The roof highlight has been (partially) thickened and the outline on the upper left half is given a lighter colour, but that leaves the issue of the highlight for the right hand fender because I'll lose the double bulge profile if the highlight there is any wider. I can do without the highlight altogether if the problem isn't resolvable. Made other modifications to eliminate any unnoticed semblances of banding or unneeded buffering.

More input is very much needed.

[The Mozack]

Additional amendments. Gave the upper right outline a lighter shade of red.

[Manupix]

I guess you can take it further: make the upper outline lighter, same as this linear reflection you have along it.
That's how light would work on a real car I think.

And I agree you could give a good AA pass to the whole picture. After all this time and effort you gave it, it deserves it!
(I see you've started it in many places, but lots of transitions remain that need it too)

[The Mozack]

Changes made as suggested. Made other fixes on banding.