Hi Guys!

Well, a few days later than I would have liked for an update but I spent the rest of the week learning more about the program we love to love.

Namely, all about the fact that I need to to research my camera functions more before building my sets. I had no idea I had an actual 35 mm lens capability. Thanks to the previous posters for the head's up on changing the filmback/gate. Made all the difference.

Needless to say, I had to rebuild the entire set to accommodate once I enabled it. Great learning lesson and challenge as always with our dark mistress Maya. So here we go, this is the first time I put the reference image and my image side by side. I had planned on having to do some minor tweaking to match up, but was humbly surprised at how close I got it by eyeballing.

I'll go through one more weekend of fine tuning and geography adjustment on a few places, (bringing the black fg object and left boiler over a bit, tweaking the size of the wood slats, and the camera angle needs a bit of a nudge, etc.) but all in all, it's not going to be too bad a job. I think for a newb, I nailed it pretty darn close for a first recreation. Hope you guys agree. As always, any input is appreciated. Ill begin the modeling next weekend (started on my new props stage last night)and update as possible when I have more to show. Just so great being back with the community.

Thanks for looking. The video of the camera move this scene (yep did my first camera move attempt for the effect I'm trying) is uploading to youtube now and I'll post it here in a couple of hours. I will have a question on that (key frame issue at the end) if someone wouldn't mind the request from the experts.

See ya in a bit...here's the images.

1 Screenshot from film
2 obviously my grey scale in progress
3 Link to My very first camera test (I'm aware the lighting is far from done

Youtube Link here...

https://youtu.be/ToLctlqX2CE