I have to say, that looks beautiful. I was thinking about joining that challenge if I could find the time. The only thing I really have to say about this is that the final render looks as if I'm watching it on a static tv set with that noise filter. Was that intentional. Besides that, its cool.

I'm not going to repeat what I said before... so I'll just stick to the most important part.

THAT'S BEAUTIFUL! haha

But seriously, I hope you post this to the gallery, wonderful image.

As siragin and hihosilver have pointed out; looks beautiful! 

One thing if the challenge is still on: you may want to add another layer to the textures of the boots and the jeans to make it appear more rugged or used, maybe just some dust or something - right now they look (in my opinion) too new and shiny to be convincing I guess.

Welcome back! 

And another solid piece from you.

Would you mind me adding this to the CGN Gallery?

I agree, slightly.  I love the cinematic framing of the scene, maybe just tone down the noise a bit?

Thanks guys!

If I want to add dirt, it will have to be in photoshop.. since anim8or can't use an alpha map on the reflections, dirty parts will still have reflections on them if i dirty them up with a texture.
Since it is an anim8or.com challenge I want to keep it as purely anim8or as I can so I guess I will leave it like this.

I could however wear the jeans down a bit, I'll give it a try, hope it doesn't look out of place.

Theproducer: I've deleted the photoshop file by accident.. I'm afraid I can't tone down the noise now without having to go through the whole process again..  I guess it is just an older movie that has a lot of noise ;)

If it's alright you could add it like this to the gallery?

Sure, i'll get it in there by the end of today!

*cough*gallery*cough*

and a quick question,

I just realized your alpha map only includes the boots/pants and sheriffs badge.  I figured you did the background through filtering out what you rendered with the alpha channel, but without the wood paneling and all in the alpha map I was wondering what exactly you used it for!  Did you simply use the magic wand tool in photoshop to take out the background and put in a new one?

Yea I extended the alpha map manually by selecting the parts i wanted to filter out. Since the outlines were straight lines it wasnt too hard. I had to think a bit though to get the right layers and stuff selected to blur/mask etc. 

Very nice simon, great render as always.