Toolkit 2: Lighting and Rendering: Ambient Occlusion

Applying the ambient occlusion shader to the car and rendering a selection of the scene

Increasing samples

Decreasing the spread

Adjusting falloff

Changing the near and far clip planes

Changing the colours (black to grey)

First render of the car with the adjusted settings and ambient occlusion applied

Turning off the glass within the scene to see the interior of the car and running a test render

Render of the car with the glass layer disabled

Opening the beauty pass and ambient occlusion pass with glass disabled in Photoshop to composite them together by pasting the ambient occlusion pass on top and switching the layer mode to multiply before lowering its opacity

Composited image