War Torn Town

michaelmilette

Hey guys so this is my first post here on poly count I am pumped to hear from you. I am currently a second year 3d art student and I am very passionate about environmental design. Please tell me what you think comments are very much appreciated.

cheers

Mike

Segreto

Cool stuff and a good start.

I think the road texture needs to be varied a bit more. It and the sidewalk looks like its sharing the same texture, and I'd be tempted to chamfer the edge a bit to make it a softer transition.

The angle of the camera looking at the roofs make the texture look blurry and muddled compared to the rest. Here's a good tutorial about how to fix that, and I'd read about making your buildings modular, saves a lot of time.

http://wiki.polycount.com/ModularMountAndBlade

michaelmilette

Awesome thanks Segreto for the input I will fix the roofs and edit the sidewalk I will repost my results soon.

Segreto

Lookin forward to the updates

Xendance

Needs more destruction, at the moment the town just looks abandoned, not war torn.

Mark Dygert

Are you thinking WW2 war torn? Because typically before any street fighting started, the area was bombed and shelled to death. Then tanks typically went through buildings instead of down the street where traps where set. Then as whoever was driven out of the city they shelled and bombed it trying to slow down or retake the city. Germans where notorious for pulling out of a city and making them easy to take, then shelling it and attacking it because they knew it was easier to attack than to defend.

I think you need more war-torn in your planning stage next time. This looks a bit more like an untouched European slum. =/ Unless there is some critical piece of back story?

IF this is WW1 then the artillery fire was pretty much the norm. You don't storm a trench or a town you flatten it, even if you don't think anyone is there you shell it for 3 days.

What you have done looks pretty good, it just doesn't seem to really fit the description. It does look good tho!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/SvvPX56dG-I/AAAAAAAAGpw/_LQTqmWa01Q/s400/berliners-suffer-destroyed-1945-may-ww2-second-world-war-two-2-incredible-pictures-photos-images-007.jpg
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.data.image.w/w440406c.jpg
http://www.anunews.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/aa-World-War-II-bombed-out-German-city.jpg

MiAlx

I agree with Xendance and Mark. I think this definitely looks like everyone just barricated their windows and went off, out of the city. But if you added a little destruction, you would nail it. For instance take a look at your street: Imagine Artillery, imagine tanks and grenades had their turn on it! It would have holes and torn parts and what not. Also the buildings need to have a certain degree of destruction as well. And the parts blown out of the buildings should be, you know, lying around in the street.
But your progress so far looks good! Keep it up!

michaelmilette

Hey guys so I took your comments into great consideration and made a few changes. I rubbled the two buildings to the right and added some pieces of rubble everywhere in the scene. Also chamfered the edge of my sidewalk as Segreto suggested and rubbled the streets more. I haven't touched the street texture yet and I just started on the windows about 15 mins ago so they will be way better soon.

please tell me what you think cheers

Mike

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michaelmilette

Hey guys here is my latest render what do you think?

Mike

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Dragan

Starting to get there man, the lighting is a huge improvement to your scene. You have to do something about the insides of the windows though, i can see the starting to the nabouring houses haha.
great work though.
rubble looks awesome.

Xendance

Looks nice for sure, but you know, the sun did shine during wars too
Just saying that you don't necessarily have to use really gloomy and brownish colours to light up the scene, but that's just my preference.

michaelmilette

awesome comments guys thanks @Xendance will brighten my scene up and will send another render out soon

@dragan good call on the windows will fix that too cheers

michaelmilette

Hey guys so I have done some more work on my scene based off of yours and others comments please keep them comming

mike

Mark Dygert

Yep looking really good, now that you're starting to rough up the road.

michaelmilette

Here is my latest update what do you guys think?

Segreto

Looking hot. Ill take a closer look at it when I get the chance, but this has seen a huge improvement

michaelmilette

@ Segreto: Thanks man I have been working really hard on this piece can't wait to hear from you

Mike