The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
I made a plaster landscape
polycounter
You know those kits you see in Hobby Lobby in the diorama section?
They are awesome.
They are awesome.
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How much did that cost ya all together?
I want to give that a try now, what tools did you use, what kinds of materials and where did you get it all?
I feel that a lot of the techniques in building this scene are immediately translatable to CG. Hiding seams, texture painting, understanding natural layout (rubble under cliffs, trees and bushes in clumps), reusing assets etc. It was a fantastic learning experience, and I'd recommend it to anyone.
You can get all this stuff from a crafts store like Micheal's or Hobby Lobby. I spent about $50 with lots of leftover material. Took about 5 hours (it was a first time).
I hate for this to look like advertising. But they're really the only company that specializes in this sort of thing...
I got this kit as a starter, and it come with all you technically need.
If you don't want the kit (because the default stuff sucks) you'll need:
-Casting plaster and Plaster cloth
-Some decent rock molds
Acrylic Paint:
For basic you want Yellow, Brown, and Black
Glue, hotglue, project glue etc.
Then there's all the powders that they use for grasses, and the material they use for bushes. I also bought a tree canopy kit that came with some organic plant matter and rough-leaf powder.
The instructions in the kits are simple, you get it down once and you start to comprehend how you can build other things. What floored me was painting the rocks. It's the easiest part, and the most satisfying.
Now I am wondering if my skills as an environment artist would translate to this sort of art. I love how this looks and it looks like it was a blast.
I guess.
adam: Post progress shots, man! I want to see this!
How creative can you go with these kits? Is there some molds that you do and then just assemble them to what the kit description says?
haha looks sweet man.
Seriously though, that's pretty damn cool!
I love you
I have some leftover material, my roommate wants me to do a 'globe' version of it.
martinszeme: You can go pretty nuts with this, any sort of mold works. The instructions are universal for whatever you end up using. Just important to not that the paint gets a lot lighter after it dries, so if you want darker rocks you got to use less water and more acrylic.
beancube: Haha, it looks pretty cool unpainted actually. Like showing just the whites in a model render.
flaagan: Agreed, I even featured some decent erosion for it too. They have stuff for that, and it looks pretty real too.