THRONE ROOM – Throne of Knowledge – DustyKhan

dustykhan

In a quaint rural village lies a treasure trove of information. Hidden down a little lane lives a wonderfully small book shop that hasn't seen a customer in years. Unknown to the regular passer by, the "Throne of Knowledge" lies within.

Good luck everybody!

Software:
Modo
Houdini
Zbrush
Xnormal/Handplane
Photoshop
Substance Designer/Painter
UE4

Gripley

This idea sounds incredible! Reminds me a little of the Cemetary of Forgotten Books in "The Shadow of the Wind - Zafon" Really excited to see how this progresses!

dustykhan

After doing a wee bit of searching, I have found a few suitable references for the route I would like to take the actual throne and possible ideas for the furniture to be included.



@Gripley: Cheers buddy, the idea was between this and a waterfall throne of some sort, so I took the easy way out :P I have heard The Shadow of the Wind is supposed to be a good read though haven't actually read it myself.

monkeymintaka

I love this idea. A room of books is like my dream! I would make sure you have a fire extinguisher handy though

Lilith

great idea.
I ran into this cool art today and thought it might be useful
http://mancubus.cgsociety.org/art/master-books-fantasy-3d-1230407
cheers

dustykhan

@monkeymintaka: Thanks, it would be amazing to have your own library I'm not sure a fire extinguisher would quite work in the environment I'm currently picturing in my head, but maybe a big red book titled "Fire by Extin Guisher" :P

@Lilith: Thanks for sharing that amazing artwork. I will definitely be adding that to my reference sheet!

dustykhan

Gathered a few more reference images...

Loutrattitude

The bottom left picture in your reference sheet is awesome! Great idea in general too, eager to see how you'll handle this

luthyn

So excited to see how you handle this!

Kevin Johnstone

Really curious about this one

dustykhan

My basic goal and focus for this project is to learn creating procedural assets within Houdini and to practice creating modular designs.

I feel Houdini could be an extremely beneficial way of increasing production time when creating a range of similar assets i.e. varying types of books. This is proving slightly more difficult then expected, as you have to adopt a completely different mindset when procedural modeling. However saying that I have created a modular, procedural bookshelf, where I have control over all dimensions, the amount of shelf's and dividers. Its a start, though books are proving a little more tricky!



Having spent maybe a little too much time in Houdini, I decided to spend a bit of time this evening sketching in UE4 a basic blockout of how I envision my scene. Its not the best of screenshots but will hopefully give you a representation of what I am trying to achieve. Think I need to make it slightly larger and add an extra floor/balcony...

dustykhan

Just testing overall scale!