Pyrogauss cannon

Let's start from something shocking:

file name: "gauss.max" (3dsmax format)
creation date: 14 nov 2008

file name: "gauss-f.hdr" (rendered image)
creation date: 11 oct 2009

So, yes - I was working on this scene for almost a year

Something about the weapon:
The idea was that the projectile is firstly accelerated by the explosion (that's why pyro-), which also punches a big piece of piezoelectric material (blue thing). The vast amount of energy is stored in the capacitors (red things) and then it's transfered to the coils (orange things) at a proper moment (that's why -gauss).
Oh, sometimes my technical imagination overtakes me

I made all the textures and lighting last week. There are 5 lights - the most complicated setup I've ever used. The textures are mainly procedural, with only 2 bitmaps in the whole scene

Rendertime: ~3-4 hours.