The Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ

Based upon another illustration I did a ways back, I thought it would be nice to animate this in 3DS Max. It took a day to build, texture and animate but another full day to render it. I just wish I had the processing power to add caustics to the scene, but ho hum.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ8TWZScGAU
Oh. And if you think the mouse heart is far too big for the scene, that’s because all of this takes place in a shoe box. 😉