SiFi City work
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Hey everyone. This is a first post, however I have stalked the forums forever reading and watching on all the projects you do. I am amazed at the work you all put out, it is very nice. I figured I would leave the dark room, and post a project I have started working on, a massive 1 day ago. I am always fascinated by futuristic cities, so I decided to make one in SketchUp and maybe render it in V-Ray or Lumion. I have both of these because of work (I am a fire protection enginerd so I am always modeling or drawing high rise buildings). So, below is the first completed building, started today and finished a few hours ago...darn meetings. I would like any thoughts you may have. Thanks so much everyone.
Basically I made the "foot" of the building first, then just polar arrayed it 4x in a 360° circle. The I drew a 6 sided shape slightly overlapping all 4 of the feet. I then cut the shape in half (unevenly) and extruded it up, offset, then extruded up again. I then simply drew tons of squares on the surface, and extruded them either in or out. I wanted to make sure that none were on the same plane, or at least close to none. I then just imported some textures from cgtextures, made them seamless in Photoshop, and made materials in VRAY. The last picture is a render with no displacement maps applied, basically just reflect maps. Tomorrow I will make displacement maps for the curtain wall part, which will help make it stand out more. The lighting is done through an HDR map, and I just left the background blank.
Thoughts? And thanks again!
Dan.
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Very cool!
@unknownuser said:
I then simply drew tons of squares on the surface, and extruded them either in or out.
You have some specialized plugins for make random greeble volumes!
Grebble2 By Chris Fullmer at Smustard (free)
Protrude by Jim Foltz (free) -
That's how industrial architecture should look like ! Well, in a not so far future, that's how buildings will look like in big cities... isle-type buildings. You could evolve it structural and architectural from this concept.
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