Week 5 / Class 10

I ran into lots of issues this weekend with my textures and rendering which lead me not to get as far as I originally hoped so I'm a little disappointed. I also spent a good chunk of my time this weekend remodeling my marquee and adding smaller bolts and connections. I tried some lighting tests with my neon lights but it was too rough to include in my render but I think I'm going to have to do a mesh light as well as an emission shader. I am also going to have to use this method on my lanterns to truly get the glow effect. I am also going to have find ways to better optimize my render and get rid of all the noise without drastically bringing up my render times. My average render time was about 7 minutes and I don't have all my lights yet. There's still so much to do but slowly but surely, we're getting there.