The third one in the set. This time, a rear view darting down a tunnel.

Under the Bridge

The next plate shot for the prowler, this time with more structures involved.



[Update 10/12/2010]

Did some adjustments and changed the scale of the car, since it was too big in comparison to the truck you see in the background. Still needs some fine tuning though

quick test

A test render with just a beauty pass on it and radial blur on the wheels. I'll put up a complete version later.

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Final version


Contains a beauty, diffuse, occlusion, spec, and reflection passes. Compiled in photoshop

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This took a little over 4 hours to render out. Need to make some adjustments and fix the lights a bit more.

Back to prowling and a bot on the loose

So the TMR rig is revised, for the most part, and is currently being used by my friend Jessica. I've no idea what shes up to with it, but it aught to be interesting.

Meanwhile, I finally got back to working on the car, mainly fixing the tail lights so that they don't look like bricks.



Looks a bit nice now, and since the cover is twisted, it should make for an interesting caustic effect when its actually rendered. I also adjusted the turn signal so light can be reflected sidways now, since before it was pretty much another chunk of metal. I just need to re UV the accent, since its new geo, and the mr light texture would look all wonky when it turns on.

TMR Update

Well, I couldn't help myself. I decided to just rebuild the rig it had. Not entirely from scratch, as the joints I left from the first rig were still useful. A lot of the old controls will probably be broken though, since the deformers they used to control aren't there anymore. It's looking good so far though, now that there are a few more extra movement directions for the clamps, and the hierarchy chain doesn't look like a tornado struck. I did leave the aperture in the eye alone though, since it would take way to many joints in that small region to recreate what was already there. Kind of a nice break from the Prowler. I'll either work on that or switch over to the lightsaber again next week.

07272010

Decided to change things up and retexture the TMR using mental ray and trying out the mr lights. So far I've only used a portal light for overhead. Gonna add the remaining 5 for the display boards, and probably make a new environment for it.