Third Week Blog Post for Project

Project Blog Week Three:

This is my third blog post for the modelling project that I will be creating, I have decided to make a toy shop scene which will  include animation. On the previous post I talked about 
the various ideas I had thought about including in my animated toy shop and one of the ideas  was a toy train, to make this I decided to use the train I had made in Jame's lesson in Maya as a practice task. I decided to modify the original train as it was done in very dark colours and I thought that for a toy train it would be much better in light, bright colour, so I changed the carriage colours from dark green to alternative bright colours such as red, yellow, blue and green. When it came to the wheels they were originally grey with red centres, I changed them to black wheels with silver centre pieces to make them look more like toy train wheels.Then I moved onto the engine cab, this was also dark green with a black roof which I thought was a bit dark, so I changed them both to a bright blue. Lastly I changed the underneath of the engine carriage to white as well as the engine area. I also thought about making the carriages in the traditional style by making them a bit higher and more rectangle in shape and adding windows, as the carriages I have at the moment are more for carrying coal and freight and are styled like freight carriages.  As my toy train is actually a steam train I thought about adding smoke particle system to the trains' engine funnel, so that when it is animated it will look as if the train has come to life like a scene from Night at the Museum. I will also be creating tracks for the train to go on.