"Stadium" - Crash of Cars - Splash Screen

Each new update we create a new splash screen image for when the game is loading up, and for our 'Stadium' update I got the chance to create my first one!

At the time I was pretty new to the world of high quality offline rendering, so this was a massive learning experience for me - especially given I was converting a lot of the tricks we use in the game into things I could actually render in Arnold.
I learnt how to get Arnold to render vertex colours (as we use those for the cars), and how to get a lot of the lighting tricks that are a part of our in-game shaders into Arnold shaders. Just to name a few. :)

I also used Maya fluids to create the fire trails you see sweeping through the image, which was also new to me, but I was happy with how it turned out!

The assets from this image were made in tandem between myself and Matt Giblin.