STYLE AND RENDER (start reading from bottom of the post)

It's great to go from 4 different light sources to just one main source. Much more control over where we want the light to come from, and it looks alot better! Specially the shadows are alot better and more visable now.

We thought by turning down the textures, we would get a better result...but that did not help. Then we turnedto Thorbjørn who had some lectures at school. He deleted all the ligts and adviced us to use V-ray sun! This sun is very simple!

Just place it where you want in the scene and you see a map there you can choose where in theworld, and also time of day! We picked Los Angeles at 5 in the afternoon (17:00). By changing the lights likethis, the render time dramaticly decreased to 2.20! per frame!

Above is how it looks with the V-ray sun.

Style is something that has haunted us through the whole project, because we have had very little tests to showeveryone how we want our style to be. Now that we have the settings ready, we have images to show how the citylooks with the cars in it as well.

The first thing we started out with was V-ray lights. We had a big one over the city, one from behind, side anda 4th one on the sky/invironment plane. When we then tried to render the time was up to 7 minutes per frame.
The image above shows how it turned out.