Handpainted Medieval Cottage

Daniel Engel · Mar 2014

Hallo Polycount community,

I'am trying to improve my handpainting skills, so I decided to start some projects.

Here is my first attempt:
(Nearly finished)

Looking forward to your feedback :poly108:

Regards Daniel

Maya Screenshot:

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eedobaba7726 · Mar 2014

My number one criticism is that the textures are way too high contrast. Unlit textures like this feel a lot better when they're very softly lit, composed mainly of midtones. You've got a lot of whites and blacks in the texture and it's just causing a huge amount of visual noise.

Daniel Engel · Mar 2014

Hi eedobaba7726,

I hope I got you, what do you think?

Joost · Mar 2014

That's looking a lot better. The grey stone could use some work though. Maybe try adding some color variation.

Spikings · Mar 2014

You could also toy around with putting some light green moss on the rooftiles here and there to give it a sense of use/age. Maybe look at adding a row of larger stones/bricks at the bottom of the house all the way around, like foundation stones. Similar to how this does it, but no where near as exaggerated (sorry I couldn't find a better example)!

Grayson · Mar 2014

You'll want to stay away for pure blacks and pure whites.

Using some gradients and color variations will help to push it further as well.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about.

They have made a ton of really awesome buildings on their site.

Daniel Engel · Mar 2014

Tried to put some variety to the roof, the fundament and the brickwall aswell.

Next I'll bring in some green plants, the fundament stone and corner bricks.

Should start the next project, put way too much effort in this.

Thanks for the feedback so far, appreciate it.

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Daniel Engel · Mar 2014

Finito.

Very happy with the result.
Nice feedback, thanks

(Ground Texture is not mine)

Daniel Engel · Apr 2014

Time to start April. Till now it's fun.

Daniel Engel · Apr 2014

Some flowers for my medieval scene

Daniel Engel · Apr 2014

New texture.

Gannon · Apr 2014

I like the new roof, but I think it could stand to be pushed more. It's clearly old and falling apart but the tiles still appear to look fresh and new.

You may want to desaturate them a little here and there. Maybe chip some paint off?

Daniel Engel · Apr 2014

Gannon wrote: »

I like the new roof, but I think it could stand to be pushed more. It's clearly old and falling apart but the tiles still appear to look fresh and new.

You may want to desaturate them a little here and there. Maybe chip some paint off?

You were totally right, thanks for your input :thumbup:
Done some gras and moss improvements too.

Prefer the Screenshot, light set in maya needs some tweaking.

Maybe I should threw in some highlited shingles and some colorvariation.

UV Map

Daniel Engel · Apr 2014

The last updates, I think I'am done.

Daniel Engel · Apr 2014

Barrel filled with water

ducckz · Apr 2014

loving the barrel!

Daniel Engel · Apr 2014

Work in progress

Daniel Engel · Apr 2014

Handpainted Medieval Cottage

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