JukeBox

So my latest assets I've been working on for the showreel is this jukebox. The process is a long way from finished yet but need to get brainstorming a little further than I already have. My original intentions were to create a nice polished brand new manufactured jukebox, the I decided to beat it up a little, scratch the surfaces and make it grubbier (its currently at the 30/70% stage of the clean to damaged transition) but I'm still not happy with where I'm going with it, all I keep thinking is "big woop, its just a jukebox" It needs more, like updating to a nightclub 'ravebox' or something.

Updates at a later date though, all for now :)

Manipulation

So there's not been much said about the film recently and that's because of a few things..
One reason is because I've set up a separate blog for the film and have been more recently been posting there, and the other reason is because there's a few things currently under wraps and wont be revealed for another couple weeks or so.

But a rough update..
Went back home to Kent and with a friends help shot a couple reference shots, mainly for shot angle reference, working out how best to shoot the VFX shots and practice, so that come the day of the official shoot I'll know exactly what I information and details I need to capture. So here's a couple shots from the past couple weekend.
 

Train Car

Ok so this is the latest asset created for the film manipulation, 1 of 2 train carriages to be created, the other being an oil/fuel tank car which is around 50% modeled. Should have the texturing done by tonight as its all pretty simple. got around to UV'ing the Locomotive but will post about that at a later date :)

Locomotive - submission

Submission deadline today, had a little trouble finishing up, it was brute force rendering last night to get something fairly nice looking out as the original render crashed :/

anyway, around half to 2/3rd's done i think, needs to be re-textured and a couple areas working on model wise, hope to also build a little more of a scene around it for the 50% grade submission. also was said that the camera pan needs to be sorted out but that was never anything final anyway. 

next asset to come for submission will be trailers and oil tankers, another serious load of modeling but should be ok, just got to clear a little 'paper work' a couple of reports to write and pre-production stuff to get on with too so it'l be a busy couple weeks!

Locomotive - 80% modeled

Ok so this is where we are regarding the modeling process, reckon I'm around 80% done. there's still a world of detail that needs to go into this and a few tweaks need to be made I've just noticed :/ but it should be ok for draft submissions. I'm hoping once textured it should look ok but yeah a few things to do, probably go back to them over xmas as there's a few other things i need to get on with now 

Locomotive - Wheel sets

 Finally got the wheels finished, was a bit of a lengthy process trying to get them lined up but i'm pretty much there, I need to add more cables, wires and pipes i think on the inside but this is for a showreel draft and film r&d piece so I will be revising the model at a later date, full model renders to come..

Locomotive - Front &rear platform ends

Work on the Front and rear end of the platform with air breaks and couplings too..