Poker Table Scene

In this scene I wanted to show how the film Casino Royale links to poker and gambling as the title implies, I wanted to do this by showing James Bond playing poker and have poker chips and cards spread across a poker table.

To create this I first made the poker table, this was simple, all I did was use the cylinder tool and made the cylinder to my required size, then using the scale tool I pulled the shape out to resemble a poker table. After this phase was done, I converted the object into an editable poly and then put enough segments on the top of the table that it let me select the outer rim of the cylinder polygon by polygon, once I had selected the outside ring of polygons I used the extrude tool to pull them up, giving them an edge-like look. Once I had completed the time, I added an image to a material and then inserted that onto the middle of the cylinder, this then gave the cylinder a poker table look, with the inside being green and the outside ring of polygons being black.

Next, I created the walls of the scene, this was done by just creating three planes and adding a wooden texture to them through the material tool. After this had been done I started on creating the props for the table such as the cards and poker chips. This was done by simply creating a small plane and then extruding slightly for the cards, as cards are completely flat, and then adding an image to the back of the cards, as the viewer would only be seeing the back of the cards. Once this was done, I then created a few instances of the cards to create a pack of cards and then a few sets of paired cards to be spread around the table.
To create the poker chips I simply made a circle using the cylinder tool and then added a material of a poker chip, but to make sure that the material was only placed onto the polygons I wanted it to be on, I changed the side of the cylinders polygons to a different index to the top and bottom, this allowed me to insert the material onto the index of the top and bottom of the cylinder and not affect the sides. Once this was done, I proceeded to create stacks of poker chips and placed them onto the table.

After all of this, I then added a camera that goes down the middle of the poker table and it stops at a pair of cards, after rendering this and watching it, I decided to add a silhouette who was suppose to be James Bond at the end of the table where the camera stops, this then gave me an idea of using the camera to go up into the silhouette as if you were looking through James Bonds' eyes at his cards, from this, I then implemented another scene which simply shows the poker table and a hand showing two aces as if it's being looked at by the player.

Here is the clip of the poker table scene: