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Orbital101
02-02-2010, 03:36 AM
Hello everyone, I am presently taking art design class and we are setting up for our reel

by doing our storyboard. It is still far ahead but time fly fast and I want to make sure

I deliver something nice. I can model pretty much anything organic and mechanic but, it

seem I have a problem to setup large scene or at least modeling large landscape for

animation.


Here part 1 of my animation, there will be multiple parts of my animation happening

through this picture.

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z253/goodurden/Numriser0001.jpg

It start on the hill and the camera will fly to the castle closed door acting like if the camera

was a flying bird.. The door open and my hero mounted on his horse will ride out and

follow the road up to the hill and back to the original view we started with. I cant model the

whole thing or my computer will crash so I was thinking maybe doing it in 3 parts and edit

the cuts in between the switch. Render the Castle, the road and the hill then edit.


My hero, the horse and the eagle are done and rigged but I have been starting over and over

the past few days on a way to model this large scene to make it happen with no luck.

Considering there is not much info on how to create large semi realistic landscape I taught

I could try my luck asking around on some help. What software could I use best for this?

Links to tutorials I could buy or any advice I could use to make this happen. I personally

use 3dsMAX as my main 3d modeling tool and I am not afraid to switch to any programs if

I have to as I can use most of them to a limit
.
Thx for any advice and sorry for my hard to understand English. I have ran through my english dictionary the best I could =p

KingSRS
02-16-2010, 12:20 PM
Lets see if i can help :P


For this scene you can use max. i dont know how realist you want it to be do you have some exambels or so it would help alot.

You can use alot of programms but you can also use max plugins like ivy-gen for plants and so and maybe a vray for lightning and creating a realistic look.

So if you realy want to creat this scene i would say cheak ivy-gen and vray. And just model the rest of the scene like the hills and boats.

Hope i helped

PEace

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