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I am doing something quite different with my contest entry. The Main 3D modeling software used is well, Minecraft. I have been using Minecraft not just as a fun pass time – but to recreate actual architecture! This contest is a perfect opportunity to show that there is more to this game than meets the eye. The cabin is not to scale to a typical player. It is much larger so i could show the smaller details.
Work started with no straight idea, just improvising. First the height map of the ground, then textures and finally the trees and the old house. One thing i decided was to only use free material: free textures, free models and free plugins. The final result evokes me a silent place where to hide from the daily routine.
I’ve added the complete concept text in the images. Have a look!
I decided to use Lumion as my main tool and had to figure out how I jump start my terrain based on a real location height-map.
I tuned out to be very easy. Just import a grey-scale image representing the height-map into Lumion and then keep sculpting it with the built-in tools.
I am describing this process in my Making of CABINS Part ONE and will expand on it in Part TWO.
While still in SketchUp and aiming at using V-Ray for SketchUp as my main tools for this entry, I made a fast lighting mood test.
In this one I leveraged V-Ray for SketchUp’s Volumetric Environment feature using the Aerial Perspective option, with a few lights located below the cliff and pointing up…
This is the result I got!
It took the 3d model for a spin and picked the HERO view. Saved it to Photoshop and further developed the concept with my Wacom, adding hints for the background and some foreground details as well.
This is the last sketch I make before advancing to the 3d platform of choice and starting to test render as well.
