One Car Challenge: Few steps before final

 Heading to the final with the contest project. 

 

Finalizing the road material and additional "extend" details for the forest. Increasing Japan vibes with pagoda and some old stairs and shrines would be a good way. If not the rules limitation, I would change the licence plate too.

 

 

Separately reworked a Sakura tree model to fit better close up (even though out of the focus). Surprisingly that was quite challenging due to some mess with too high poly blossom models that ate whole my ram. And still, even after all fixes, Sakura became terribly heavy model, around 32M polys. Additionally it slowed down the work with final placing of the tries and branches in front of the cam. 

 

Probably the most annoying and difficult part of the whole project - to place the tries and catch the right position so frame composition, light/shadow on the leaves and shadow on the road, car and forest ground, and reflection of the wet road, will match my plan.