First of all, I’ve made the rough sketch in which I tried to build the scene that is interesting all 360 degrees around. Thus we have a deep hazy valley with some nice vistas, the cabins scattered along the ridge of the mountains and some uphill background leading to the glacier dimmed by the dark clouds.
I started my work on two elements: the mountains behind the valley and the cabins, certainly. I used world machine for the first one and did some extra refining in zbrush to get the details I wanted. Then some scattering and hand painting. I am not very glad about the results yet but it will be a hazy part of the image so it doesn’t need to be totally flawless after all.
The cabins are to look like some white ephemeral monoliths that stand out from the environment. They would appear from the valley like the row of Nordic gods, guarding the ridge above, being taken straight from some myth. Maintaining this poetry of the form is more important to me that perfecting the function of the shelter. In the end, this is CGI and its utmost fun is playing with space and mood in the way that architects cannot afford due to all the limitations of the real-life situation.
I built the wooden frame of the cabins and used zbrush to model the cap of the chimney (for the central fireplace). The external semi-translucent fabric was simulated in marvellous designer and refined in 3ds max. I want to keep it wrinkled and untidy.
Hi, I see that my additional attached images (in .zip) don’t show up here. Perhaps, I can get some solution to it?
Hi. The additional images I attached as .zip don’t show up. Is there a solution to edit this entry and add them?
Yep… add them here as comments! I will check what went wrong in any case
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I love the progress a lot! looks epic 🙂
love the thought process, + love the form and sketches. i can imagine quite a majestic overlay within the landscape. looking at the author, and quite a contributor to cg scene, this gonna be an amazing submissions. looking forward for the updates & finals.