Handpainted Medieval Cottage

Daniel Engel

Hallo Polycount community,

I'am trying to improve my handpainting skills, so I decided to start some projects.

Here is my first attempt:
(Nearly finished)

Looking forward to your feedback :poly108:

Regards Daniel

Maya Screenshot:

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eedobaba7726

My number one criticism is that the textures are way too high contrast. Unlit textures like this feel a lot better when they're very softly lit, composed mainly of midtones. You've got a lot of whites and blacks in the texture and it's just causing a huge amount of visual noise.

Daniel Engel

Hi eedobaba7726,

I hope I got you, what do you think?

Joost

That's looking a lot better. The grey stone could use some work though. Maybe try adding some color variation.

Spikings

You could also toy around with putting some light green moss on the rooftiles here and there to give it a sense of use/age. Maybe look at adding a row of larger stones/bricks at the bottom of the house all the way around, like foundation stones. Similar to how this does it, but no where near as exaggerated (sorry I couldn't find a better example)!

Grayson

You'll want to stay away for pure blacks and pure whites.

Using some gradients and color variations will help to push it further as well.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about.

They have made a ton of really awesome buildings on their site.

Daniel Engel

Tried to put some variety to the roof, the fundament and the brickwall aswell.

Next I'll bring in some green plants, the fundament stone and corner bricks.

Should start the next project, put way too much effort in this.

Thanks for the feedback so far, appreciate it.

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Daniel Engel

Finito.

Very happy with the result.
Nice feedback, thanks

(Ground Texture is not mine)

Daniel Engel

Time to start April. Till now it's fun.

Daniel Engel

Some flowers for my medieval scene

Daniel Engel

New texture.

Gannon

I like the new roof, but I think it could stand to be pushed more. It's clearly old and falling apart but the tiles still appear to look fresh and new.

You may want to desaturate them a little here and there. Maybe chip some paint off?

Daniel Engel

Gannon wrote: »

I like the new roof, but I think it could stand to be pushed more. It's clearly old and falling apart but the tiles still appear to look fresh and new.

You may want to desaturate them a little here and there. Maybe chip some paint off?

You were totally right, thanks for your input :thumbup:
Done some gras and moss improvements too.

Prefer the Screenshot, light set in maya needs some tweaking.

Maybe I should threw in some highlited shingles and some colorvariation.

UV Map

Daniel Engel

The last updates, I think I'am done.

Daniel Engel

Barrel filled with water

ducckz

loving the barrel!

Daniel Engel

Work in progress

Daniel Engel