[CE3] - house

Wesley

Hey, long time no art :poly122:.

Ages ago I started this street scene, just based off some Google Street View thing. Anyway, that sat on my hard drive for way too long and every now and then I'd work on it for a day and then not do anything for about two months... :poly122: Last week I kinda had a kick up the arse and decided to use the long weekend to finish it before getting a bit more serious about stuff. I ended up cutting it to just this house because the original idea was kinda boring anyway.

Not quite done yet, but thought I'd post - Trello screenshot of to-dos at the end to save boring typing.













Cheers.

EDIT: Name Cheap hosting is having some network issues, so the images aren't resolving right now. RESOLVED.

Cocophony

Looks great man! Really inspiring.

thepapercut

Really nicely done. Really digging the texture work, specifically the roof and the pavement.

Kimon

It's got that realistic feeling that I would like to see in a true next gen zombie survival game. Great job!

Alphavader

looking really cool -
how you get the "no background" ? is it in a vis area ?
You allready said- that its WIP -
i would suggest more finer details - like bottles, piece of paper,
maybe a sticker/advertisement on the fence ?

Wesley

Ah thanks, didn't actually think about any kind of urbanistic (did I just make up a word?) detail really, cheers.

For the no background I just removed the terrain option in the rendering. This is all just brush work.

JustGarry

Hey this is great, would have some crits but looks like you have plans to address them in the near future so keep going

Wesley

Just a small update for tonight. Editted the branches normals, got them all connected to the tree and fixed all clipping with the house. Need to add the texture for the cut branch, and then little knots etc to it.

jermaineb

fantastic
very well done

ysooz

Looks like a building that you'd come across in an abandoned neighborhood. The textures are really great!

Temporal Drift

I really like this project. You have a great sense of scale going on... My only bit of feed back is in regards to the large tree around the back... The scale of the trunk Is spot on, however I feel the foliage is too large the leaves need to be scaled down a fraction. Looking forward to see if you expand on the diorama

Wesley

Hey thanks man, yeah I think the branches leaves are a touch too big. I had scaled them down 20% but after repositioning they're still looking a tad large.

JustGarry

yeah those leaves are a bit mental, grab a photo of a real tree and try and replicate it's branches

Wesley

Hey, cheers, I was trying go for a live oak but one not so huge. (All the ref I find of them are massive) I think I might have borked it a little when making it smaller. Too many individual branches popping out, less 'clumpy'.

Ref:

ledyr

looking really promising!
in the last picture the shape of that tree looks a little bit odd

Wesley wrote: »

it's cool,is this a desktop gadget? what is the name of this?

Edit:
in that photo reference it might look real because the branches are growing almost from the ground unlike in your version or maybe the scale of that reference tree is different

JustGarry

That tree ref is pretty cool but doesnt fit with your scene, I would go for a linden tree maybe, but either way make your leaves grow from the branches and make them all a similar size and that should help it to look much better.

Wesley

Hey ledyr, it's www.trello.com Great little site for this, got apps for everything and has some pretty awesome features.

Anyway, tree update. Looking much more tree now. Thanks for the crit guys, made me realise it was looking like a weird mess.

[HP]

That's pretty good man, love the set dressing.

What I don't like is there's a lot of pure blacks and pure whites in there, you should probably limit your range a little bit. Take those black pipes next to the white window frames for example.

keep it up, cheers.

Wesley

Yup! Totally right on that. Now all I can see when I look at this is the lamp post and other metals around this place being super dark. Cheers.

huohu

I love the house in the picture. :)

Wesley

Nearly got this done, but I've spent half my day today sat in Safe Mode thanks to a crappy BSoD. Anyway, got most of the stuff done now. Still some more stuff left on that to-do list and also other things that have caught my eye. But if you see something please do crit! Nothing is off limits!

Vincentt

The tree is looking a lot better now! I do think the decals on the wood are a bit too dark.

luge

feeling like the lack of leaves makes the tree look weird. but i do like the details, the small ones. and the big ones.

narticus

I really like all of the textures, except the one on the foundation. Seems slightly busy, and kind of throws off the transition from building to ground. Really just a minor thing overall.

Did you make all textures by hand, or were any photo-sourced?

Wesley

Quickly finishing this off before starting some new stuff this weekend.

@narticus A lot of the textures were heavily manipulated photosourced. Pretty much all the textures here are just tiling textures heavily edited and then blended/built up in the engine.

LANKUS MAXIMUS

Wow.

Inspirational man. You've broken it all up so well with unique areas of detail.

If i had one crit, it'd be that the tree leaf planes all have a pretty radial spread. bringing the upper most part of the canopy to a more horizontal position might create a nicer form/composition.

I look forward to seeing whatever your next project is

Jeff Parrott

Nice job on this! Good mix of interest on the surfaces. Nice to see things broken up here and there.