Textured train animation

ok this was more of a pain than i thought my main problem was my computer did something to the smoke which made it take 10 minutes to render a frame. So as you can see i decided to turn it off. This 10 second animation was 300 frames and i spent around a 1 hour 30 minutes rendering it. I rendered it out in HD because the last animation i did was bad quality so i also spent 13 minutes uploading it to youtube.

Render of my train

This is a render of my train with all the textures applied (apart from the wheels) i used a texture mode called Architectural with a UVW map. I used two omni one dark green on the left at 0.9 multiplier and the one on the right is white with a multiplier 1.0 using ray tracing shadows on both. I'm taking it home to render a animation of it spinning (like the last vid i uploaded) this is to show the reflections. I'm doin this because it takes 1min 4sec to render one frame at college and i need to render 300 so im hoping it will render faster at home.

Just because i have not been uploading much 3ds max stuff

This is the star gate i created placed in my environment. I have changed the lighting since the last time i uploaded a image of it, i have also made the animation a little smoother which because this is a still image you cant see.

Train render

This is a train i created at college in 3ds max. I rendered it in two parts so think it jumps near the end also the smoke is a little fast.

Textures

Hi hi here are textures from the Internet and also there is some we have taken from the local area i will be using these in my environment

Double Negative

Lewis is a mid level 3d modeler at the moment he is working at Double negative on multiple  projects he does a very specific job of adding veins and extra detail to models to give them a more realistic feel. He also talked about how he got into the industry which was very interesting because he started as a runner and he explained what a runner does (going from one company to any partner one with information and test renders) then moved up to render supervisor and then to a low level model then seven years later he got to mid level modeling. He also talked about the different stages of modeling and all the other more boring stuff that need to be done in order for the end product to be good. He also broke down the different levels of production on films like harry potter showing how they went from the roar footage to adding all the CG and and camera effects.

Channel 4 advert

This is the channel 4 advert which Lewis also worked on it was much cheaper than the Fox's one only costing £250,000 he said this was much easy to make because channel 4 knew what they want. One thing i didn't realise is about 50% of the building in that advert are CG because they needed to make the important CG building (that make up the channel 4 logo) fit in more they also had to add in a CG copter to cast shadows on the CG buildings.