Oblig 2 animation. Project synopsis

The theme i have choosen for this project, based on the overall theme "environment", is recycling.

My movie will be set on a regular street corner. It starts with a Rube Goldberg machine (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_Machine) being set of from a window in one of the building and it will lead to a jar/box that will be lifted towards the opening of a recycling trashbin, but it will miss and fall to the ground. The scene end s with the words recycling may seem more complicated than it is.

I will be modeling one tin canister, one soda bottle, one wine bottle, one cardboard box, one plastic ball, one glass jar and several wooden and metal sloopes and tracks.

my deadline is Decembre 18. so i have 3 weeks from today. Next week i'll complete modeling the scene and start with the animation. The second week will most likely be used only for animation and i hope to be able to use the whole of the third week doing after effects such as texturing, sound and rendering.

Last Day

It is the last day and i am getting ready to
hold a lecture on my assingment.
I finished my assingment last thursday after a lot of work
organizing and searching for map locations and such. The reason for
this extra workload was a problem with archiving the 3ds Max file. When
archiving i got an error message. After some time searching for the problem
i decided to simply make a new folder where i placed copies of all the map files i had
used in the scene so that it was possible use my 3ds Max file on other computers.

Pre photoshop vs. final picture

here you can see my final picture and how it looked before
i used photoshop.

A new day and another render

Today i have mostly worked with lights.
I have removed the spotlights in the bar, because i
felt they ruined a bit of the atmosphere in the room.
I have put in some lights to highlight the art in the bar
i have cooled down the color in the main light from the
lounge lamp and i have put some weak spotlights on the
paintings to give them back the heat they lost due to the
cooling of the lounge lamps light.
I have also created a new texture for the cups and sake jars
to compliment the art in the bar.
I have done some modeling as well, like the light-switch
next to the bar and the spots hanging from the ceiling.

New render

A new render. I have fixed some shadow problems and added some lights and new elements to the scene.

Oblig 1, part 3

I am now finished with the modeling of all the major parts of my scene and I have moved on to lighting and shadow. Since last time i have raised and modeled the roof, made a new tableand some flasks, cups/glasses and a ceiling lamp. I have also put in some paintings that i made in photoshop.
I will use the rest of the week to set up proper materials and lights.

oblig1, part 2

This week i have been modeling the major elements of the scene like the bar, chair and sofa.
i have also enlarged my original scene because of general lack of space.
I am now moving on to modeling smaller elements such as bottles, pillows and the like. I will hopefully be able to move on to materials and lightning at the end of next week.