So, I think I finalllllly managed to decide on a shape that I like for my cabin entry. This will be my 4th design interation… all of the iterations can be found below in the comment section.
The shape of my Cabin has very much been inspired by a cabin design called Skyli which was a concept done by Utopia Arkitekter – (http://www.utopia.se/en/projects/skyli) check it out.
The composition has changed ever so slightly from my original sketch, which showed a cabin sitting on the edge of a cliff face. When i was researching I came across a hotel in Iceland called the ION Adventure hotel… initially I loved the shape and how it kind of stuck out of the landscape with a pool underneath it (http://ionadventure.ioniceland.is/) – so i decided to try and design a cabin and mold the landscape around it to create a similar blue lagoon style pool underneath it.
The landscape was created with two methods. The foreground was quickly created with a plane and the free form tools to try and match the composition of my original sketch as closely as possible – I just pushed, pulled and relaxed areas until I was happy with the shape. The background landscape was created using a detailed height-map of Hvannadalshnúkur, which is a peak to the west of Jökulsárlón. I used the displacement modifier in Max and then used pro-optimizer to bring the face count down.
For the glacier coming down the mountain I simply selected the faces in those regions, copied them up and used the freeform tools again to conform it over the mountainous landscape.
Lighting was setup using a daylight system, Vray Sun and Vray Ariel Perspective to provide the depth that the scene needs to show off the scale.
Hope you like it so far… some of my intitial concepts in the comment section you will probably notice were inspired by some other cabin designs… one i was very close to using was actually inspired by an image Peter Guthrie did himself a few year back for a cabin called Tind (http://www.peterguthrie.net/#/tind/).
Let me know what you think.
This has a fantastic environment design to the concept. The cabin is also quite striking.
Very nice!
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The cabin has a very striking design. The elevated area is particularly interesting with regards to potential utility. I really like how the environment is developing. I like the islands in the scenic view instead of a broad, wide-open expanse of water.
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Thank you Sheppard – hopefully I can make it all work! 😀
I like that perspective opening on a glacier and cannot wait to see some shimmering ice.
Thank you! the initial view of the VR experience will be from here 🙂
I have already started working on creating some ice shaders too… will post up some testers when I’m done.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5e84a11d30f0c65ab3c9a569cc628d860a014088c7dfdb9e89bf77a4d88324ef.jpg WIP1 – my initial model for the foreground landscape and cabin model.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/96b04e0e6b7e26af29c18ef439a19ca07133c35d45c9b142155afef94266d8a9.jpg WIP2 – this was after i had added the background using displacement.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e28108e3d21bab7d387bcf1c6c25088675cab2bee50d0bb5b1c8dfd73b2d3fc5.jpg Cabin design number 2…. scraped in the end.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e38a7874a36856a2004ac7a86fc20642d92b9421d6515f89b09651c587d1eabf.jpg Cabin design 2 – with reference images for the different areas of the landscape.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da5b789b9336d77c22292389540f65ea90c3d665f128677566b2b740aa6f6a62.jpg
Cabin design 3 – nearly rand with this… but just couldn’t make the shape work.
Impressive design! Keep it up.
AWESOME!
Very Cool! I really like the depth the have created in the landscape. I also like the shape of the latest cabin design.
Great concept… Hope you nail it! Looking forward.