Free tutorial: Race Vehicle Concept Design – Cinematic Rendering
The Gnomon Workshop has released Race Vehicle Concept Design: Cinematic Rendering, a free tutorial recorded by Design Consultant and Artist Chris Beatty.
The intermediate-level workshop, aimed at concept designers and 3D generalists, provides over an hour of video training in Blender, After Effects and Photoshop.
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The free three-lesson workshop takes the vehicle created for Beatty’s previous tutorial, Race Vehicle Concept Design, and puts it in a short rendered sequence, designed to show off and explain the concept.
For the environment, Beatty repurposes an older game asset of the Silverstone Circuit racecourse, showing how real-time assets can be reworked for visualization work.
He then brings the vehicle onto the track inside Blender, animates it on a path, and sets up camera animation, before rendering in passes and compositing the passes in After Effects.
Key techniques covered include preparing and refining geometry in Blender, reworking materials and lighting for offline rendering, scene optimization, and building a clear visual narrative around a design.
The lessons also cover practical workflows for adapting game-ready assets, managing scene scale, and quickly integrating existing environments into a cinematic pipeline.
About the artist
Chris Beatty is a 3D artist with two decades of experience in product design. He specializes in conceptualizing vehicles for real-world and futuristic applications.
He has contributed to high-profile projects in the motorsport industry, including leading the styling of racing cars for the Indianapolis 500, and working with F1 teams.
Price and availability
Race Vehicle Concept Design: Cinematic Rendering is free. You can watch each chapter directly on The Gnomon Workshop website at the link below: you don’t need to register on the site.
Subscriptions to The Gnomon Workshop provide access to over 350 full-length tutorials, and cost $57/month or $499/year.
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