Chartres Cathedral

zelgadis

This is a hirez version of a screenshot took from my last work at Centre NAD. I used 3ds max for the modeling, photoshop for the textures and I used combustion for the final compositing.

It's the first time I post my work here so crits & comments are more than welcome.

hetsch

gj! now make a normalmap for those bricks, make a lowres and import the whole piece into oblivion

crits: the ledges could use some more polys maybe?
and yeh, a bump for those bricks would help i think.
the arches could prolly need more curvature as well me thinks..
I like the stuff going on in the middle there, but it could use more details to make it stand out

btw, wires please

edit* gah 5.30am spelling sucks ass

zelgadis

thx for the comments hetsch

as for the bump, there's one already but I agree with you that it's not very visible I'll try to make it more bumpy.

here's a wireframe

Jesse Moody

very nice piece. and pretty clean wires.

I would say add the normal map maybe dirty it up a bit more and show it to us again.

This looks really nice though.

What was the final polycount?

The Ben

NAD - hahaha

Yeah, I think it looks great. Slick render, I definitely want to make love to your geometry. I am curious as to how a bump of some kind would change the face of this beast...

JoeinNC

love it! looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

zelgadis

thx for all the good comments
i'd like to work more on it but for the moments im a bit busy now that the school is done i have to find a job, but i will for sure work on it again some time.

as for the polycount JesseMoody its 101035 tris

TheWinterLord

show us the whole thing, a screen with whole model. looks very good luck with bumps and or normals/job.

adam

I'd personally show this off at night time, and push some dramatic lighting on the rosery in the middle.

coldwolf

Awfully romantic angles, lovely really, but I'm more interested in the details of the arches you put in. Pretty please?

This is very inspiring to me, I think making elaborate structures like cathedrals is probably my most desired... thing in 3D. Besides mecha. I think. I don't know, but I'm going to make a small cathedral-like thing soon, and this has me jazzed. Cheers!

NeoShroomish

The lighting looks fantastic imho.

Em.

Lookin' good, give the stones more depth and add some more dirt. One more push to awesomeness, I'd like to see some more angles, it's been 3 days, where's the update, hop to it!