[CE3] Winterfell

Joshflighter

Heya Polycount,

I'm making this thread to show my progress of an environment piece I started a day ago or so ago. I have never attempted an environment before, so this is all new to me. Any advice/tutorials/critique/comments are much appreciated!

(P.S. This is not the city from Game of Thrones.):(
If anyone knows the artist of this concept matte painting please post, I would like to credit him.

Concept:



Current blockouts:










Test in CE3:




3ds max grab of back part:



This is a major wip and I hope to have much more coming in the next few days, concerning block outs.

nicafornica

if that is blockout house, i don't know what finished house is. Very nice, nah, fecking nice.

Orangeknight

How much of the house's is modular? If not much I would suggest this tutorial it will help with your roofs and general modularity with buildings. http://wiki.polycount.com/ModularMountAndBlade?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryEnvironmentModularity%5Cb%29

mikezoo

nice start!!!

Seirei

One day are you kidding me? o0
You guys make me look slow with my stupid cathedral!

Btw I'm almost certain I found the maker of the concept, his name is Jake Griffith: http://jakeg98.blogspot.com/

Googles reverse image search engine is amazing isn't it? ^^

marq4porsche

This looks like a sweet start. I'm really loving the concept and your blockout is really good. I'm digging the roof man.

BenStrasser

Hey Josh, Nice work so far!

m4dcow

Looks really cool, but the roof meshes are ridiculously dense, could probably cut them down quite a bit.

Paul Pepera

Looks like a good start but it is too early to crit. Just get rid of that shallow DOF in your CE3 screenshots - it's making the scene appear to be 3 inches tall.

roosterMAP

another fast way ot make a scene look bigger is to put the cam lower, looking up at the models.

theonebutcher

Blockout looks great so far! Would be interesting if those building could be broken down into modular pieces! Cool start!

Gooner442

great start, nice concept too!.. just wondering why you've called it Winterfell if it's not supposed to be Winterfell?

[HP]

Shapping up to be awesome, good luck!

gsokol

Good start. Pretty cool concept to work from.

XRevan23

very good start, can't wait to see what happens next

Apel

Great models, keep it up!

Joshflighter

So I shut my tab, with all my responses. Wow, I feel like an idiot.
I will write it up again, let me first just post the work.

@Everyone; Thank you! I am deeply touched! (don't be perverted)


Orangeknight: Thanks! I have now changed the way I am doing this. Greatly appreciated!

Seirei: Thank you!!
Btw, your scene is coming along great!

m4dcow: It will be, this is just a blockout. Ty btw.

Paul Pepera: Done. And thanks!

roosterMAP: Will do. =D

Gooner442: I love the name, but the real reason I used this name is because I did not know the artist or the name of the piece. I'm still going to keep this name for the environment.
Thanks, and the concept is definitely awesome!


I am moving away from the original concept, so I can integrate more of my own vision in this piece. Everything is still in block-out mode, but its getting there!
*You may notice I have been playing skyrim... haha

















A friend of mine asked for further away shots, so here they are:
(I'm sorry for the shitty quality, but please bare with me.)

ENLARGE TO GET THE BLUR EFFECT OUT OF THE WAY FOR THESE 2:

Computron

re-open tabs = shift-t

noob :poly124:

Can wait to see how you approach texturing this beast.

e-freak

Joshflighter wrote: »

this is looking great! i think you could add a little to the overall rendering by also baking AO into the vertex colors.

Joshflighter

Thank you, I'll be sure to do that.

Spitfire

Looks like a solid start, i suggest looking at old european buildings from france and germany, they resemble this style alot and there is some good reference on their construction you can find

[HP]

Very important: Make sure you turn off GI on the time of day. The bright terrain is bouncing off and tinting your asset of yellow.

You can quickly turn it's rendering on/off in the Hide by Category tab - Render Settings / Global Iluminator