Seperate Text splines for O, R, Y, forgotten the font used. Extrude Nurbs, Fillet Caps.
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Cogs created using cog spline, extrude, cylinder for centre. Rotate, move.
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Started with a cube, applied matrix extrude to front face and set it to curl around the beam, then did opposite face with reverse bend. Next step is just hyper nurbs added.
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Individual link created using a manipulated torus, then drew the spline manually and use 'duplicate' function to create more 'links' along the spline and periodically rotate them.
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Lighting, Front light, Basic spot with soft shadows, Rear lighting caustic with orange smoke glows. Final render used global illumination. This rapidly increased render time, this took 8 hours!
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Random shot for SBS :-p
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Quick background created in photoshop, in retrospect it would have been better to add this later due to how long it added to the render thanks to GI.