The Domeble Three Six Zero Q and A Sessions: Carl Lyttle
How did you first start taking pictures of cars? I was originally a still life studio guy, taking landscape pictures when I could. From there I would put those personal landscape pics into my portfolio - no websites in those days. My agent at that...
How virtual reality is going to drive the automotive industry.
A number of technological transformations have been taking place in recent years, but given the current circumstances, they have become more rampant. One such new age technology that has transformed customer experience is Virtual Reality. Amongst...
Staying creative as a photographer, whilst stuck at home
Given the current situation, things are changing at a very rapid pace. We anticipate a lot of anxiety, frustration, lowering incomes and instability. But let’s face it we have no choice but to find the best way to utilize our time and make sure we...
Covid-19. The biggest digital disruptor yet.
First, it was the Geneva Motor Show announcing that their event was being cancelled this year due to the Coronavirus outbreak. This was then swiftly followed by a raft of other trade shows around the world doing the same. The Drum, Europe's largest...
How can you use high-res 360° HDRIs as backplates?
As the resolution and quality of 360° HDRI domes has increased over the past few years, I have wondered whether their use could extend further than originally intended, which was to supply the lighting and reflection to a 3D model. There is so much...
When did CGI photography become so popular?
I became acquainted with CGI somewhere in early 2007, through the marketing directors of leading auto brands. It was the new buzzword. I was one of the early adopters of digital imaging as a photographer in the mid 90’s and being quick to...
Content Ready Imagery vs Shooting Real Production
As an automotive location photographer that has travelled globally on commissions with large photographic crews, and like many in the industry have returned not only with great images, but also lots of stories to go with each shoot, it's...
Making 360° HDRI Pixels Count
As the art and science of producing HDRI’s is being continually pushed to its limits, the tech team at Domeble are also pushing hard to maximise the pixel quality and of course the dynamic range of their HDRI’s to ensure that the artists using them...
Why are good 360° HDRI’s So Important
Our Domeble thesis is to give our clients and CG artists the best quality content that there is available on the market. Its easy to shortcut techniques and quality, and often deadlines mean that there is no time for that extra 20%, but is that not...
Animation Fun Using Domeble Content
We've had great fun over the past few days creating some new content for the launch - here's one of the animations we did using Autodesk Vred . Its a great piece of software and our 360° HDRI's work really well in it both for rendering and VR...