THRONE ROOM Throne of Knowledge DustyKhan

dustykhan · Jan 2015

In a quaint rural village lies a treasure trove of information. Hidden down a little lane lives a wonderfully small book shop that hasn't seen a customer in years. Unknown to the regular passer by, the "Throne of Knowledge" lies within.

Good luck everybody!

Software:
Modo
Houdini
Zbrush
Xnormal/Handplane
Photoshop
Substance Designer/Painter
UE4

Gripley · Jan 2015

This idea sounds incredible! Reminds me a little of the Cemetary of Forgotten Books in "The Shadow of the Wind - Zafon" Really excited to see how this progresses!

dustykhan · Jan 2015

After doing a wee bit of searching, I have found a few suitable references for the route I would like to take the actual throne and possible ideas for the furniture to be included.

@Gripley: Cheers buddy, the idea was between this and a waterfall throne of some sort, so I took the easy way out :P I have heard The Shadow of the Wind is supposed to be a good read though haven't actually read it myself.

monkeymintaka · Jan 2015

I love this idea. A room of books is like my dream! I would make sure you have a fire extinguisher handy though

Lilith · Jan 2015

great idea.
I ran into this cool art today and thought it might be useful

http://mancubus.cgsociety.org/art/master-books-fantasy-3d-1230407
cheers

dustykhan · Jan 2015

@monkeymintaka: Thanks, it would be amazing to have your own library

I'm not sure a fire extinguisher would quite work in the environment I'm currently picturing in my head, but maybe a big red book titled "Fire by Extin Guisher" :P

@Lilith: Thanks for sharing that amazing artwork. I will definitely be adding that to my reference sheet!

dustykhan · Jan 2015

Gathered a few more reference images...

Loutrattitude · Jan 2015

The bottom left picture in your reference sheet is awesome! Great idea in general too, eager to see how you'll handle this

luthyn · Jan 2015

So excited to see how you handle this!

Kevin Johnstone · Jan 2015

Really curious about this one

dustykhan · Jan 2015

My basic goal and focus for this project is to learn creating procedural assets within Houdini and to practice creating modular designs.

I feel Houdini could be an extremely beneficial way of increasing production time when creating a range of similar assets i.e. varying types of books. This is proving slightly more difficult then expected, as you have to adopt a completely different mindset when procedural modeling. However saying that I have created a modular, procedural bookshelf, where I have control over all dimensions, the amount of shelf's and dividers. Its a start, though books are proving a little more tricky!

Having spent maybe a little too much time in Houdini, I decided to spend a bit of time this evening sketching in UE4 a basic blockout of how I envision my scene. Its not the best of screenshots but will hopefully give you a representation of what I am trying to achieve. Think I need to make it slightly larger and add an extra floor/balcony...

dustykhan · Feb 2015

Just testing overall scale!

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