Assignment 2: My goal/Rationale

What I was hoping to achieve was a scene where toothless lived before he meets Hiccup. I imagined the camera to slowly zoom in on the cave and swoop over it as if toothless was the camera. Then it would show the inside of the cave, where toothless sleeps on a podium-like structure.
This has only been half achieved as I was not able to figure out how to get the camera to work, and then I had an error with the rendering.
I tried every way possible to make things work, but with the amount of time I had left, I decided to show everything I had done in my workbook. -hoping that it is enough.
Everything is there, I just couldn't work out how to put it all together in time.

Assignment 2: Textures

Here are some textures I have considered/ used for my final scene:

Assignment 2: Music Research

Assignment 2: Final Submission

Sadly I have had some trouble with Maya
-In understanding the program and getting my final scene to render.

Because of this issue, I am unable to submit my final product.
However, I have shown my workings on how I went about it, and how I made my decisions etc.

Here are some screen shots of what I have managed to complete.

Assignment 2: Screen Shots of my workings

First attempt on modelling a cave

Second attempt on cave- It's much smoother and
cleaner than the last attempt

Tried to make a tree- Sadly couldn't use it in my scene
(it would not export of paste into it)

First go on making a rock

First look at making terrain/land for the cave to sit on

I thought of changing my idea of the cave to a tower, but
it doesn't look as effective and the movie doesn't have any
towers in it anyway.

Carrying on with the cave idea, and adding things
on the inside

Finalizing the cave- texture 

Finalizing the cave- texture
and adding bits on the outside.