Material Studies and Cube World- Digital Art Practice Week 9

 This week I worked both on my cube world and my material studies.

I started the week by improving the previous week's material a little bit with some added surface texture.

I painted a rock material as well.

I gathered references and made a simple reference board for my cube world. I used mainly real life reference, but I also gathered reference from video games.

I developed my initial sketch further by expanding it and adding extra things.

                                              

I made some sketches for individual objects in my scene. I ended up not using most of these directly, but the design elements from these came into play when designing other objects already in the scene.

I finished the week by adding a simple value drawing to my initial line drawing.

House Project 3- 3D Game Production Week 9

  This week I worked on further improving my model. I modelled my roof, worked further on my textures, blocked out my unique props and worked mainly on my trim sheets. 

I started the week by modelling a sample roof tile to repeat the texture on to the entire model. The tri count for a single of this tile ended up being 266.

I repeated this tile a number of times across the model in order to achieve the result that I wanted.

Straight away I realised that I would need to break up the repeating forms with either wooden beams or individual unique tiles. I added a number of beams, constantly referencing my real life references. In order to break up these vertical beams, I added diagonal beams as well. I added beams and bricks to break up the ground texture a little bit as well.

While placing my beams, I made sure to have most of them slanted a little bit in order to provide a more interesting shape to the house. I did this from every angle of the house.

I further modelled the house with parts that could be later repeated if needed.

I a multi sub material in order to have an easier time controlling my materials and to have an easier time assigning them when the time came. This was a really significant improvement over the previous method of assigning a material to every object manually.

I left some texture underneath the roof in order to provide a darker background to my roof.

Next week I will be working on improving my textures further, painting my trim sheets and modelling some unique assets.