Once upon a time in Leningrad: The Coin and Vehicles

In once upon a time in Leningrad the little boy picks up a coin and tries to deliver it back to the old man. The coin plays an important part in this film and will have a few close ups so the coin will be detailed.

I looked in to different Russian coins in the 1920's. The era in which this story is set in.

A lot of the Russian coins have this bird crest on the tails side. Since 1920s Lenin was in power it seemed right to have him on the heads side. I then started to paint the coin.

This is what it looks like in photoshop:

On the side of the coin I thought it would be nice to have the teams Initials on the side of the coin in Russian. This is kind of like an easter egg in the film. around the coin it says CW PC and EH.

 

After the colour is but on I then added a bump. 

White raises the bump, black lowers in and grey is neutral.

Since we are using Mia_Material_Xpasses material in maya we can use presets. These presets will change the texture of the coin. I changed the preset to chrome to give it that coin finish. Here are a few renders of the final product.

And thats the coin :)


For the vehicles we wanted a texture but also use a car shader to give it that glossy look. I textured a car, truck and a tram texture.

Car texture:

Tram texture:

Truck texture:

here are a few renders of the tram and car :)

Thanks for reading :) x