Some work so Far

solo

Awesome stuff here, I love the night version of the train tunnel/station.

corrigible

thanks solo. Ive seen your work on pushpullbar. amazing. I always wondered... what program to you use to render animations?

PeterCharles

Now for the anorak question... is the steam engine based on any particular model?

ilay7k

Nice work! indeed...

Happy holidays

Anssi

Good work!

There is something in the second train shed rendering that makes the train look like a toy. Maybe the foreground texture scale, or the blurryness.

Anssi

corrigible

Thanks for the complements. I basically looked for several images of steam locomtives and used refereced a few that had minimal geometry.. ( i knew the file was going to end up being massive with all the trusses and tracks..)
@petercharles said:

Now for the anorak question... is the steam engine based on any particular model?

I agree about the second image looking like a toy. It was actually worse untill i added the Motion blur. Cant quite put my finger on it either.

corrigible

BTW a small short vid of the proj.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8iZ5ydpuCg0

Roger

The yellowish train would sell as a print if you could find the right distribution channel. That is a thing of beauty.

jenujacob

the "yellowish train" FLOATS!!!!
but these are wonderful images.... what was the render times like??? i ask this becoz its MAXWELL we are talkin bout!

tinanne

Love your work! Thank you for sharing it.

corrigible

Thanks for all the kind words.
@jenujacob said:

the "yellowish train" FLOATS!!!!
but these are wonderful images.... what was the render times like??? i ask this becoz its MAXWELL we are talking bout!
Not too bad. I do all my modelling on my laptop. But render on my desktop built just for Rendering... a quad core PC. (I call her Ashley ). so rendering is actually not that bad. The "yellow train" took a little under two hours for instance.

toan76

Those are awesome. Great work.

sepo

Wonderful images. I really like the night image. Is it possible that the train is simply to small. If I look at the size of the floor tiles and compare it size of the train it kind of becomes obvious.