Town / village

[solo]

My second to last large project this year is for a client that intends to revive an 80's classic game called 'Dragons lair', I am modelling the village which is not a major part of the game unfortunately but still needed. My next one is the Gaul village for an Asterix animation feature.

[marked001]

nice...VERY cool image..simple and effective.. sketchup linework overlaid on a rendered image?

great model.

[ehaflett]

Great model and render. Nice to know that Dirk the Daring will be making a comeback. (I was a total junkie)

[tinanne]

M-M-M... I am in awe

[solo]

Thanks guys, here's another view.

marked001, you are correct.

[mateo soletic]

Beautifull images Solo.
One question. How do You place one image
over another so they exactly fit.
I understand one is directly from SU
and the other from render app.

[solo]

Thanks mateo.

There is two ways of doing it:

• Export the 2d line work at the same dimentions as render (however sometimes they still do not match up and you need to manually align it)

• In Podium you can render at same resolution as your desktop resolution, thus the native resolution of line 2d export is exactly the same as render, then if you have a widescreen as I do you simply crop the merged images in post editor.

[mateo soletic]

Solo,
I suppose more practice is needed. Being a maxwell user
and not a very regular one i find it very difficult to
control the final output to match the SU line work, but
as I said Your images inspire me to put more effort in.
Thanks for the feedback.

[tomislavm]

Beautifull, finally something useful and nice in this gallery, I dont mean that other items are not good but this is something excellent and I wish to see more pictures,
thank you.

[3eighty]

Very nice work..Would that snow texture be available someplace to download or is it private?

[solo]

Thanks guys.

The next image may be the last one as I need to get to texturing and finishing. I bid this job at 30 hours and hope to get it done with four to spare. I will try post on completion if i can, usually the clients prefer not to have their property displayed online.

[tomsdesk]

Some kind of WOW!!! I'm quite impressed, and inspired, thank you very much!

[Darth Chocolate]

As Tom said this is a Wow of some kind
And reliving Dirk stirs up the dust in my mind

Your beautiful images still blow my head
Oh these houses should end up in gingerbread

[marked001]

wow again..the gentle tones from the sun in the last one are great.. love the background castle and sky..

i know its weird to say this, with all the great podium renders going around....but these may have really sold me on podium.. lol.. (i'm assuming its podium??)

[Roger]

Thirty hours, how does that relate to actual days start to finish?

[dylan]

Beautiful Solo, really nicely done. It's always good to see something a little different, can be very inspiring.

[lapx]

Solo,

30 hours! Wow. This is incredible for so little time. These images are inspiring.
I see you had to think about how to make the snow. Did you model the snow or is it a texture? This is really good work solo.

[solo]

Thanks guys, I have resumed work on this model and so far I have used 17 hours and it seems on track. I have textured the buildings (remembering it needs to have a toon feel to it)

I will post again with more details when completed, may be in a week or so as client is pushing the Gaul village for sooner completion.

The original size looks better.

[tomsdesk]

Pete, your link is to the main imageshack site, not to your image...help please.

[solo]

Imageshack giving probs again, try this link to Podium post.

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