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3D Rendering of a Lego Expert Builders that was one of my favorites when I was a kid. Modeled and rendered with Lightwave 3D 9.6.

I completely remodeled this to reduce the number of polygons in order to get my older system to be able to render this without running out of memory. I cheated some of the geometry and eliminated nearly all of the geometry that I thought would not be visible or would not affect the shadows noticeably. By modeling the forklift as subpatches instead of flat polygons I achieved an approximate 99% reduction in polys which translated to roughly 50% reduction in polys rendered.

I designed the material handling containers using similar methods to keep the poly counts low enough to render. For the containers I used flat polys.

I bumped up the reflectivity on the main lego surfaces to add more visual interest. I also increased the lighting in the scene by adding several more area lights hoping to get more of the details of the geometry to show.

I would have like to get better antialiasing with the depth-of-field, but I compromised in order to be able to render the scene in hours rather than days.

Description
3D Rendering of a Lego Expert Builders that was one of my favorites when I was a kid. Modeled and rendered with Lightwave 3D 9.6.

I completely remodeled this to reduce the number of polygons in order to get my older system to be able to render this without running out of memory. I cheated some of the geometry and eliminated nearly all of the geometry that I thought would not be visible or would not affect the shadows noticeably. By modeling the forklift as subpatches instead of flat polygons I achieved an approximate 99% reduction in polys which translated to roughly 50% reduction in polys rendered.

I designed the material handling containers using similar methods to keep the poly counts low enough to render. For the containers I used flat polys.

I bumped up the reflectivity on the main lego surfaces to add more visual interest. I also increased the lighting in the scene by adding several more area lights hoping to get more of the details of the geometry to show.

I would have like to get better antialiasing with the depth-of-field, but I compromised in order to be able to render the scene in hours rather than days.