Medieval Street at night in Maya.

I created a night scene of a medieval town, which will be the second location in the film. Bump mapped the cobblestones on the street duplicated a single building to create the town. Was going for Tudor architecture after looking at several images of Bavarian towns. I am happy with the moonlight effect...

The Grassy field...

I've been messing around with an open field in Maya, which is where my story will begin. So, far my attempts have been too washed out for my liking and I believe the cause is the sun is too bright. So, I've been trying to turn down the sunlight. From what I've read it's the multiplier setting in the natural sun. I am messing with that now. Took about 15 minutes for mental ray to render an image. If I am going to render a film this way it would take 30 days 24 hours a day to render the whole film. I don't think that's going to happen... This image was done with the Maya software and took about 12 minutes to render. I render a 30 second animation in about 90 minutes. I'd post it but video looks horrible on this site.