Toy Trains

Over the past week, I've been experimenting with the textures of the toy train that will feature in the final scene of 'The Imp Express'. 

Shader network of front carriage

Front toy train

The image above is a screen shot of the shader network I put together, with a custom wood texture that I added to the ambient colour attribute to give the illusion of the wood grain.  Then I wanted to add a bump map to create a realistic touch to it's surface.  Instead of just using a standard maya bump, I used the Mental Ray 'Mi_Bump_flakes' texture as I got a far more pleasing result with and also didn't add too much to the rendering time.  Then I created another texture, adding the detail pattern and writing on the side.  The result is above.


Then I did the other trains, just changing the colour.

Train Renders

I've been rendering these images of the main train and it's carriages.  Liam modelled the front train and I've done the carriages- now getting together the textures.  The textures are mainly custom shaders, which I will include in the images as a small breakdown.

 This is the first render, before I had added many of the textures.

Added some basic lighting and shadowing.  Plus placed some more textures on the carriages.



On the next few images I've yellowed the lighting to depict the sun and continued to add textures.