Short Movie Concept: The Fall

Well I did a test render with a few different textures and what I discovered is that textures with a great deal of horizontal detail increased the illusion of speed a great deal. However I’ve done a little reading and it seems like terminal velocity is significantly less than the top speed of the fall without factoring in wind resistance. Thanks for the input people. I realize it’d be a waste to put TOO much detail into the side the building, and really, there isn’t much detail to put. Any building that high will have a very regular texture up and down its whole length (WTC anyone?). So what I really mean is that I want a very lifelike texture for the windows. The building will be glass fronted like most sky scrapers. However the OTHER buildings will need more detail. As for motion blur…I’m not so sure how great it would look with it. I’ll give it a try, but the problem is that it takes 5 months to render.