3 types of rendered TATA NANO car images. Modelling and rendering was completely done using Blender 4.9a & Gimp 2.6.6

1.Blender Internal Render

Render time : 11 minutes 30 Seconds with reflective background and procedural texture materials.
Hardware used : Quad Core Intel processor with 4 Gb Ram

Click the link below to download the above model:
nano-with-internal-render

2. Blender with Ambient Occlusion.

Render time : 49 Seconds with procedural texture materials and default ambient occlusion settings.
Hardware used : Quad Core Intel processor with 2 Gb Ram

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nano-with-ambient-occlusion

3. Kerkythea 2008 (External render).

Render time : 9 minutes 54 Seconds with fully reflected  background in Kerkythea external render (2008).
Hardware used : Quad Core Intel processor with 2 Gb Ram

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nano-with-kerkythea

After working with the best tools of the trade 3D Studio Max, MAYA and Photoshop, we took to Blender and GIMP reluctantly. We had lots of apprehensions.

GIMP, a free open source image editing software is easy to pickup, you can be up and running with it in a matter of hours. And You may need just a few days to master. The big challenge is convincing your people that free software does not mean bad. When it comes to using Open Source tools, software programmers need little convincing. But artists in India,i know from my experience need some convincing.

Blender, a free open source 3D art and animation creation tool, is formidable to master. It took us 2 months to learn Blender and start using the software in our day to day work. We are happy we did it.

This car was modelled for a game under production

Another car for the same game