Pre-Production

1. The place I chose is a rather ruined, personal keep of a necromancer. It is supposed to be kind of post apocalyptic fantasy, in an undetermined year. This keep was built in the frozen tundra, rather desolate surroundings and very cold. There would be the lingering scent of frozen death, potentially a few frozen skeletons or corpses laying about in the undisturbed snow.

I want the keep to have old and worn graves scattered around it as well as a broken, iron fence.

2. When thinking up the castle I realized that I was drawing on the old English castles and adding both a bit of a Disney twist (think Beauty and the Beast) and a dash of the Asian/ Eastern palace style.

My use of plants will be extremely limited, sticking to just some static grass that may be poking through the snow and maybe a small dead snag of a tree. I could include dead vines if I feel that the scene is truly missing something in color or line.  

I'll have to figure out and include a fair amount of stone and/or brick textures as well as some textures to try to capture the feel of the snow. 

The pictures attached are some rough concepts of the exterior scene and some of the interior.

Ready to model the next project.

I have found some images to help me do up my concept sketches and get this next project underway.

I am going for a frozen keep in the tundra. These images should help me in narrowing my pallet as well as being good reference for forms.

Lighting should be interesting with the use of snow, or planned use of snow at least.

**Amendment: I misread the original assignment post and will design the interior of the keep. It has only a few chambers, and they are supposed to feel rather desolate, so I shouldn't be jumping in too deep. I'll figure out some cloth for draperies and rugs, texture the walls in an old, beaten stone, and add various small odds and ends to fill it out, such as the throne in the throne room.

Mesh, UV, and Lights!

I know that I was supposed to be doing UV's and textureing, but I got into the lights too. I textured a cube into a dice and a donut into a ring. Just playing with it to get a sense of what I am doing.

2 Photo Renders

Sneak Peek

Here is a sneak peek at one of my camera angles. The rest will be posted by Tuesday.

Work In Progress 1/ 12

My work in progress shot from today. I am going for a city in a bubble look, and I feel like I am getting a decent sense of scale. Hiding amongst the buildings are actually vehicles that I modeled to help show the scale, but zoomed out they are nearly impossible to see.

-Cory

Resources

For my city I have been trying to draw on some of the more technological Final Fantasy type cities such as this one;










































That seems to be the only good image of the cityscapes I am drawing on.

City Scape

My Work in Progress for today.
I'm going for a rather space age feel. I was looking through the conceptart.org stuff and was finding stuff that I was going to draw on for how they used their geometric shapes and hard lines. I did not however pull any of the images to post.

-Cory