Victorian Detroit Home

Sukotto

I am going to be modeling the Frederick Butler House, a restored Victorian home in Detroit for a class assignment. I will be updating my progress regularly

Here's the reference sheet:

Not much to look at yet, but here's the initial block out:

cholden

I'd say scale the whole thing up vertically, at least every part of the roof.

Barnstable

That house has a lot of promise to make a great model.

Scale does seem a bit stumpy compared to the pictures though, so I'd grab the whole thing and stretch it out vertically a bit.... Especially that dome.

Sukotto

Will do!

I think when I was enlarging my source photo I must have messed with the proportions of it in photoshop. But its fixed now

Taylor Hood

Nice blocking. Quite complex, she is, but I believe in you! =]

Sukotto

Update!
Here's a crappy little AO render

cholden

See the angle of all your reference pictures? These are pictures taken at eye level. When presenting this building, try to maintain a similar angle with at least fov90. If you present from above, it'll always make your house appear smaller and squished. It's also an angle our brains don't normally process, and people might see proportional errors that don't exist.

Sukotto

cholden wrote: »

See the angle of all your reference pictures? These are pictures taken at eye level. When presenting this building, try to maintain a similar angle with at least fov90. If you present from above, it'll always make your house appear smaller and squished. It's also an angle our brains don't normally process, and people might see proportional errors that don't exist.

I will definitely keep that in mind for future updates and the final render. Thanks!

Sukotto

Quick question, most of the windows/frames are floating objects, would that pose any sort of problem when it comes to texturing? Or is it better if everything is one mesh?

rustim

Floating geometry is a-ok in my opinion. Just remember to delete all backfaces, and make sure the intersect is clean.

Sukotto

rustim wrote: »

Floating geometry is a-ok in my opinion. Just remember to delete all backfaces, and make sure the intersect is clean.

What do you mean by a clean intersect?

rustim

Your floating pieces should stick into the main body without any gaps.

Jonathan Marshall

That place looks amazing. I love victorian architecture.

Good luck, you have a good start.

Sukotto

First update in awhile! Its almost done, I need to fix the spec map as well as bake some AO onto it. I'll post some textures and wireframes later

marq4porsche

First thing I notice is that your scale is off. Your bricks and tiles are about twice as large as they should be. For example on the front of the porch the bricks should be 4 across instead of the two across you have now. Your textures are looking nice to start but they are a little clean for this style house as well. I also hope you add that pattern in the roof tile texture that is in one of your reference images, it's looking like a great start so far.

chrisradsby

Right now it kinda screams "TILED" , you might want to add some variation in there, some grunge and maybe overlays. Still great work so far !

Sukotto

marq4porsche - Thanks for the feedback! I hadn't really noticed that the scale was off but I really should have since its so important to the overall look

chrisradsby - I'll see what I can do to add some variation, thanks!