Hotel The Second Attempt

The beginning scene of the trailer begins with James Bond exiting a hotel, as a Harrier appears on the scene that will eventually chase him later. Therefore, as at least five seconds will be dedicated to a hotel being present, it is important that it looked effective. The first attempt at the hotel, was very unrealistic. It had red brick walls and very strange windows. With this in mind, a new hotel was created and lighting was used as well. This has worked much better.

Lighting has been used as well, to give the impression of night time, which has also made it work very well. The material used to create the walls was marble, with different shades of grey used rather than the default colours provided. The number of tiles was multiplied to 20 to make it look more effective.

The name of the film is the name of the hotel, to show early on what the name of the film is. This is slightly different to the events that occur during the film, but the essence of Bond will be incorporated from start to finish. This is the reason that the hotel was made again, everything within a Bond film appears very flash, the hotel that was created before did not fit in with the generic conventions of a James Bond film. The only part that will be incorporated from the previous attempt will be the garden, as this works very well.

The next step was to add a path for James Bond to walk across as he exits the hotel. Using bitmaps found on the internet of tarmac, the tiling was altered and bump was used to make add the rough texture of tarmac. With the lights also in the scene, it adds an interesting colour to the tarmac when rendered. The effect looks like this:

This works well. More lights will be added to make it easy to see Bond as he exits the hotel. The next details to be added will be some foliage such as a decorative garden. To begin, a cylinder was created to create the grass that the foliage will be placed with. The cellular map was used in combination with bump. The colours were altered and produced a green bumpy grass effect which appears to work rather well.

The effect is best displayed when rendered compared to when it is displayed through the view ports. Although more lamp posts have been added to the scene. The omni lights were only used in the ones nearest the hotel and the ones furtherest away. When all lights were used it made it very difficult to see the hotel from any angle. 

A centre piece of the garden has now been added to the scene. When the harrier appears in the scene, the leaves on the trees will all begin to move as they would in real life.Small planes were added with a white colour to give the representation of road markings so Bond's car can be added ready for Bond to jump in.

This is the image of the foliage added in and placed in its respective place.

A light was also placed within the hotel to make it appear to be still open so that Bond could walk out of it. Models now need to be added to the scene so that animation can now begin to take place.

The car model has now been added to the scene, ready for animation. Thus, far the lighting is rather dark over the car, this is the intended effect. This is because once the harrier begins to ascend into the air, it's lights will brighten up all of the scene, and then shine onto the car and the rest of the objects within the scene.