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My 4k render. Like my mother told me,

 You build your first house the way you think you want it, learn from the mistakes; sell it and build another one. 

I learned so much about lighting, texturing and rendering with this project.  It took forever, but I now I can move onward to other projects. This is my first real big environment that I composted with render passes. I also used photons, final gather rays, god rays, mia material, and a render farm. The render farm was awesome, and I got to learn Thinkbox Deadline, as well as help other students and productions manage the farm. (I got to be the school’s render wrangler.). I would like to change a few things with this render. However, its time to move on to the next project, I spent enough time on this one. All well worth it. 

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Created using.

Autodesk Maya 2015

Adobe Photoshop

Autodesk Mudbox

Thinkbox Deadline

Mental Ray

Substance Designer (only the floor)

Quixel Suite: (mostly nDO)

Blackmagic Designs: Fusion 7

Chico State Animation Studio Productions presents S-Car-Go A group of ill fated snails try to escape tragedy by making it to Snail's Paradise. Will they make it?     

══════════ FULL CREDITS  ══════════

► Producers ○ Mark Pullyblank- The Grand Puhbah ○ Christopher Beatty- Producer / Storyboard - christophbeatty@gmail.com ○ Nick Bishop- Producer & tech support

► Directors ○ Dan Troxel- Director and Screenwriter  - d_man916@hotmail.com ○ Marcelo Chavez- Assistant Director / Animator ○ Tina Backlund Newton - Assistant Director/ Animator / Grand Squasher of Bugs 

► Tech Directors ○ Kevin Hand- Technical Animator, Main Rigger. ○ Jordan Merwin- Lighting- Render Wrangler- Technical Director

► The AWESOME CREW. ○ Gage Sharp- Environmental Lead   ○ Aaron Lutes- Character & Assets Modeler -  alutes.modeling@gmail.com ○ King Chang- Character & Assets Modeler ○ Elise Wood- Environmental Modeler ○ Roger Thor- Animator, Lighter, Rigger - rthor91@gmail.com ○ Chris Velarde- Animator ○ Kollin Stewart - Animator ○ Kiljan Cochan- Animator / Storyboard ○ Zach Polic- Animator / Storyboard ○ Nnamndi Johnson- Kanu- Animator ○ Brad Nevins- Animator ○ Zach Helfand- Animator ○ Cameron Shultz- Animator ○ Travis Souza- Animator / Generalist / Animatic -  silvershadow558@yahoo.com ○ Alisha Murray- Concept Art ○ Nick Saldana- Texture Artist/ Modeler / Storyboard

♫ The Righteous Sound Crew ♫ ○ Kyle Carlson-Sound Designer ○ Max Besterman- Composer

► Technical Notes Animated in Autodesk Maya. Rendered with Deadline.