"Mod Facade" Challenge - RazorBladder - Mausoleum

RazorBladder

Despite it being the obvious choice, I'm seeing too many street buildings so I thought I'd go and make things complicated for myself.
I'm aiming to construct a fairly complex, gothic themed mausoleum, the idea is that it is large enough to be ancestral in nature.

Here's some potential reference:


Whether I'll finish this to the deadline or beyond remains to be seen but I'm fairly confident.


UPDATE: As I don't want to double-post, I thought I'd show that I have atleast started something quickly.
This modular piece will be positioned on each corner of the mausoleum, I'll be having a hooded Death figure standing in this space, gripping the pillars.




Here is the pattern I will be baking onto the larger blank section of the pedastal:

okkun

Looking forward to seeing this

AsylumSeaker

Great references.. wasn't really aware that statues like that existed outside of fantasy.

RazorBladder

Ok I've finished the base for the death figure that'll be standing on the platforms, grasping the pillars.

Unfortunately I lost a lot of time playing with Zbrush's transpose only to discover that it destroys the smoothing of the high-poly, I guess I'll just have to get the normalmap baked before I go posing the low-poly.
Used Arsh's base as a reference.



I should really get moving on to the quicker stuff


UPDATE: Pillar Hi-Poly WIP + Wall texture

RazorBladder

Statue Low-Poly constructed, UVed and textured:

cholden

that skeletor kicks ass!

indian_boy

duuuude i love that statue!
great job on the texture!

and i like your idea too.
id love to see this baby done!

kiril0t

thats pretty sick, not a fan of the hood, but the texture looks real nice! :thumbs:

Cody

This is an environment competition you cheater!

RazorBladder

Think I'm done with this pillar, I was hoping for a giger`esque pillar head but it'll take too long.



Time for the low+uv+texture and archway :]

Rick Stirling

Nice!

It reminds me a little of the Apprentice Pillar at Roslyn:

RazorBladder

Here's the texture for the pillar so far, it seems to have gone in the direction of Quake3 meets OVERLORD... No bad thing in my opinion.




UPDATE: High Poly + Low Poly for the arch is finished, time to get moving on to the texture...

RazorBladder

Made some progress on the Arch's texture. I'm not certain this is finished yet but I thought it'd be something worth showing.

RazorBladder

More Hi-Poly work, a tile that will be used to compose the tiled roof texture and a spiked trim that will either adorn the upper quarter of the building or across the centre point of the roof.

Joshua Stubbles

That arch is pimpin'! nice work so far man.

RazorBladder

Thanks Vas :]

Here is the texture work that followed, first 2 shots are of the roof texture I composed from that slate model. The last is the low-poly of the spike trim textured.

IronHawk

looks bad ass man. Cant wait to see it all together!

Tumerboy

wow dude, those shingles are awesome

RazorBladder

Thought I'd post a lighting mock-up, not entirely sure I'll keep it, I might decide to go for early dawn instead.



Still Soooooo much modelling left still to do

Kawe

this would look awesome with some fire! torches perhaps? or hanging lantern at the gate?

RazorBladder

I was gonna go for both ;]

Wendy de Boer

The shingles have a cool design, but on the building they don't quite seem to work. Maybe they're a bit too big? Also, some sort of trimming at the top and sides would be nice. Currently, they look more like a tiling texture rather than an actual roof construction.

RazorBladder

Still on the to-do list: foliage decals, windows, entrance, texture & lighting tweaks.

Here's to praying I can finish in time

bluekangaroo

nice work on the textures so far....I like your roof shingles

indian_boy

actually, i think ur shingles are too big?

might just be me though

otherwise, it's pretty damned awesome!

Murdoc

Yeah I think the shingle size is throwing off the scale of the whole thing. if they are going to be that big, I wouldn't expect to see them flat like that.

I like the blue lighting, just curious what your lighting set up is like? like what is your preference, infinite, spot, omni?

RazorBladder

the dull blue lighting is just composed of 2 omnis and a directional light. The trick is learning to play around with the attenuation/colour/multiplier settings.

RazorBladder

Small update, I still have a ton of ideas I wish I could execute intime for the deadline but that's looking seriously unlikely. Here's where it's at:



Just barely over 15k polys.

UPDATE: Forgot to include the rest. Wires & Textures below, just wanna point out (before you do )... Yes, the arches mesh could've been much better optimised as well as the use of UV space.

Kawe

Wow, it looks really good now

vahl

very nice render dude

Spinks

i like it! very moody, looks like you hit the target.

Tumerboy

Wow Razor! This has come miles from the start, nice work!

RazorBladder

Thanks guys, just thought I'd note that I've included the wires & textures in the render post above.

Sage

Dude that looks great, I really like it. I love the lighting

ALex

Armanguy

thats awesome my fav entry so far!

OBlastradiusO

RazorBladder great job on the model. Hey, i was curious how you extracted the normal and AO map from the high poly models? I got a guess to how you did it, but wasnt really sure. What was the process, because i'm guessing none of youre UV's were unwrapped normally.