A top lifter (4)

I've finished making the top lifter.
These images were rendered by modo. This model will be rendered by XSI, so I'll have to make render trees up in XSI. I already have texture maps for that.

I'll start making a gantry crane next.

A top lifter (3)

I've made ambient occlusion maps with XSI (modo also can make ambient occlusion maps).

I'll use those maps to save rendering times.

A top lifter (2)

I've finished modeling a top lifter.

I may have to bevel some edges, but it may not be a hard work. I'm making UVmaps next.

A top lifter

I'm making a top lifter. I'm making this instead of making a forklift in the storyboard.

There will be 2 shots for the top lifter in the movie. In one of the shots the camera shoots Uni(uni-motorcycle) runs beneath a container hanged by this, so I have to make details in the forepart of this. On the other hand, I don't have to make its cockpit be detailed because the lighting will be dark and camera will move fast.

A 40 feet container (2)

I've made varied textures for the container. I painted stain by modo, and coating by Photoshop Elements. An occlusion map generated by modo was also used for the textures.

The models near by the camera are high-poly objects and the distant models are low-poly objects. Actually the low-poly objects are cubes. The low-poly object's textures were baked by modo.
A high-poly object has 3 2048*2048 textures for diffuse and specular. A low-poly object has a 512*512 texture for diffuse. I think textures for high-poly objects could be optimized and reduced its size. The left containers are low-poly and the right containers are high-poly.

a 40 feet container

First I'm making a 40 feet container. The containers will be the most seen object in the movie. It looks like just a box. Do you think it would be slightly boring to make this? I thought so, but references showed me some interesting features on it. It was fun to make them even they almost cannot be recognized from a distance. (Actually I'll bake the detailed model to a simple box model to make distant objects.)
This model was made and rendered by modo 301.


I'll make variety of textures to make variations.

A storyboard and designs

I've made a storyboard and designs for this project to define what I will make.

( click this image to go to the archive page)

I tried to keep this project's scale as small as possible, but there are still lots of models, textures and animations I have to make for this project.
I'll use SOFTIMAGE XSI 6 Foundation, modo 301, Photoshop and so on for this project. I may be using some sort of movie editing software but I'll consider about it after making all scenes.