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.

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This is the first post in this site.