Gothic Cathedral completed

Gaieus · 8 Sept 2011, 19:13

Impressive work, klog! Thanks for sharing!

Undoubtedly impressive

I spent my layoff time designing a Gothic cathedral because I read Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth".

However..,. If you remember the end, they designed a flat (i.e. not octagonal) closing of the sanctuary so that there could be stained glass windows installed there (and this could be an "explanation" for that special, English Gothic sanctuary type).

Chartres is very French. Ken Follet's cathedral would be particularly English.

@leedeetee said:

Probably my favourite ever book! Love it. Did you catch the TV series?

Lee, I am disappointed. While the book may be an interesting and easy read (in the mornings sitting on the loo), it is rather a big garbage. Come on, English people eating turkeyat Christmas? Who the hell is this writer? (The TV series are just on here - well, should I comment?)

@klog: the model/render and all the elaborate things are truly amazing so please, forgive my rants above...

dale · 8 Sept 2011, 19:26

Man, that is absolutely fantastic.

Bryan K · 9 Sept 2011, 02:34

nomeradona · 11 Sept 2011, 03:54

speachless. thanks for sharing

Klog · 11 Sept 2011, 22:40

For everyone:
Here are two more Drop Box links for interior only
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40864073/small8%20Gothic%20nave%20and%20choir.skp
and the whole cathedral without materials (about 5.5MB)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40864073/8%20Gothic%20Cathedral.skp
Maybe this will make it more available to all and get more great renderings and ideas going.

Klog

Chris Fullmer · 12 Sept 2011, 03:47

Hey, great Cathedral (and I just PM'd you about being from DRIGGS!, so go check your PM's).

Chris

steelers05 · 12 Sept 2011, 12:50

yea, the modeling is prettys awesome... i agree and would definitily like to see a few more renderings. So much time was put into everythinng else. GOod work

nomeradona · 12 Sept 2011, 15:40

we will use this one for our october challenge in our filipino group. excellent model.

Klog · 12 Sept 2011, 17:11

Steelers005
OK so here are a couple more renders (if the process works, that is)

Klog · 12 Sept 2011, 17:14

And another one

Klog · 12 Sept 2011, 17:16

and another one

Klog · 12 Sept 2011, 17:21

And last a fly-by: but go here for the rest please;
https://picasaweb.google.com/103014864480561473398

thanks for the interest everyone.
Klog

numbthumb · 12 Sept 2011, 18:20

Some really great photos you´ve got there
Keep them coming

notareal · 13 Sept 2011, 09:05

Some huge project, thanks for sharing.

castromann · 13 Sept 2011, 09:12

truly impressive model - would love to see some higher quality renders though. keep it up man this is madness...

MrWip · 13 Sept 2011, 14:09

Klog, a great thanks for sharing this amazing model... it really deserved to go in the "most impressive sketchup model" topic !

Facing such an interesting space I couldn't resist doing a test render :

It was done in Thea, with a really short setting time (only adjustment for the stained glass windows and the metal fence), render (3000 pix high) for about 20hours (I actually forgot to stop it during the night, so it should have been good enough after a few hours only...). Really small post pro in PS (mainly some color corrections). Reduce for posting.

Some details out of the big image :

... I'll try to find time to make more images, this model is really inspiring..

By the way, some remarks: the covering of the pillars looks a big large to me, and not so realistic in term of proportions, and their texture is lacking of precision... but this are small problems regarding to the amount of work you put in this cathedral !

Keep up the good work !

artysmedia · 13 Sept 2011, 14:47

@mrwip said:

Klog, a great thanks for sharing this amazing model... it really deserved to go in the "most impressive sketchup model" topic !

Facing such an interesting space I couldn't resist doing a test render

Yeah, it is an impressive model. It should go to the "most impressive sketchup model" topic...

Great re-render MrWip!

Klog · 14 Sept 2011, 05:45

@MrWip --
@unknownuser said:

By the way, some remarks: the covering of the pillars looks a big large to me, and not so realistic in term of proportions, and their texture is lacking of precision... but this are small problems regarding to the amount of work you put in this cathedral !
First, these are great "prelimenary" renders. Can't wait to see the results of your tweaking/changing the shaders in the future. Show me your stuff! Yes I too thought the pillars were too large and so they are now 75% of the original and could be smaller yet. And I ran up against the limits of 2GB pagefile for Kerkythea, even with some of the tricks I learned; so I reduced the resolution of all the shaders and chopped avout 15MB out of the source file. Even then I could only render the inside by stripping off the north and south porches, gutting the Royal entry towers, and stripping nearly all the flying buttresses as well as the terraine and exterior shaders. That got it to ~50MB and then Kerkythea could handle the interior with my machine. So I think higher resolution is for someone else to do for this project. Have at it. Thanks for your excitement about this.

@Artysmedia -- Thanks for your enthusiasm on this too; show us some re-renders from you, too.
Klog

Fletch · 15 Sept 2011, 06:39

Thanks for sharing the model, Klog,
A couple quick renders with Twilight Render.
The old cathedrals always felt to me to have high contrast dark and light areas something like this.

Klog · 15 Sept 2011, 06:55

Very nice Fletch. I would have fone more of this myself, but I have trouble knowing i9f my (digitasl) computer screen is "telling me the truth" because if I move out of NORMAL to the screen it changes the contrasts. Some earlier ones came out too dark ...
Is it the thin glass that gets so much more light into the building or is it the Gamma?
Thanks and do a lot more