3D Landscapes

This afternoon Jared tried sneakily to convert me to 3D software. I have been working on layouts for my final animatic this week and he showed me how to model my landscape with some lights in 3D Max and run a camera through it to see some different angles.

It was useful to think about actually how the staging works, but I plan to cheat the position of the moon quite a lot and I don't have the skills to play around with the camera on my own.  It really made me think about the scales of the house and tree and gave me some good ideas for some pans. It actually looked quite nice with some example textures on it, but I think I will stick to sketches and paper models for now!