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Thanks all!
@simon: Yes I'm really glad everything is working out, soon I release another short and start my internship.
@Janro: Rendering was a bitch. It was all rendered in mental ray for maya. We had multiple passes and rendering toke about 10 minutes a frame. We rendered non-stop for three weeks . Overall production toke about 4 months to complete.

Hey everybody. For the last five month I and three classmates of mine have been busy creating a short film.
It's about two trees that fall in love with each other. But because their rooted to the ground they can't touch each other.

It's made with Maya and compositing is done with Nuke.

Link:

Rooted to the ground, two trees fall in love..

Credits:

Edwin Schaap - www.edwinschaap.com
Jeroen Hoolmans - www.jeroenhoolmans.nl
Pim Reinders - www.pim.fm
Floyd Angenent - http://www.youtube.com/user/floyd386

Music by Vidjay Beerepoot - www.soundvibe.nl
Sound Design by Ronnie van Overveld - www.studiosoundgarden.nl

making of :

It all depend what you want to make. OpenGL is very fast but ugly: no shadows, reflections or AA. Scanline is slower but has AA options and shadows. ART gives the nicest results but is also the slowest. ART gives you also the option to us raytrace materials, such as reflections, refractions and raytraced shadows.
The effect you are discribing, the light cones, should be the best done in scanline I think. Try playing with the transperancy and emissive values of you material.

definitely sounds like a contest i want to engage in, does it have to be film noir or can we make something in the style of future/tech noir? 

lol shouldve been more specific, I mean limitations of like useable renderers, modellers etc.?

The theme is up to you. If you want a future scene: go ahead. Aslong the style is film noir. Most of the modeling should be done in anim8or. Rendering not necessary, but it's just black and white so it should easily be done in anim8or.

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So what do you have to do?
Make a still in film noir style, this is a black and white style which is found in alot old movies (and new ones! like sin city).
You aloud to use some color, but most of the picture should be black and white. The theme is all up to you, as long it's typical film noir.

tip: look into low key lighting

Deadline?
One month: July 21th.July 25th


good luck!

I belief 4096x4096 (4k) is the maximum texture size, but it also might be 2048x2048 (2k). I can also try to make the texture tiled and reduce the size.

It will add a point in the middle of all the edges of the face you subdived
Try selecting multiple face you want to subdive in one time.

Looks nice but it kinda misses reflections. Since you background is just 1 color it doesn't give any nice reflections. Try placing a skydome over it or some boxes with high ambient materials. These will give you material more depth... but you will have to render it again