Triumphant Return

Wow, it's been a while. Too long in fact. I was working full time for a few months and had some projects I wasn't allowed to put up on here, but I should have started updating this place about a month ago. I've been working on the (what I recently decided was definitely a) wizard's house lately, and once I do the grass texture it might start to look almost finished. I have quite a few objects I'd like to add in though. But I won't get ahead of myself. Here's what I've been doing:

So I've mainly been working on the textures. Here are the two swords. The one of the left is much cooler than the one on the right. I might even change that later, but I doubt it will ever be shown in a close up to see all the detail.

...Except for right now. I'm definitely happy with the one on the left, but for the second sword I had trouble finding a good colour that was different to the cool sword. I originally planned to have a silver/metal hilt, but it looked too similar to the blade like it was a mistake. I suppose it's not so bad, but if I were heading into battle I know which one I'd choose.

Here we have some small bushes. There are four slightly different shades of green, and I've been rotating and slightly changing the size of each one so they don't all look the same. I'll also add in lots of grass like in the next picture. I want heaps and heaps of grass and plants all over the place.

I really like the axe and tree stump. The tree stump took a while to get right but I eventually got it. I would have liked some more green on there (maybe some brighter moss) but once I surround it with grass it should be exactly how I imagined. The axe looked too real until I added the black outlines and now it fits right in.

I added in some supports for the roof. I don't know if they would be effective in real life, but that's what I like about 3D work - it only has to look cool (most of the time). But check out that window! They were exactly what the building needed. I wasn't sure about using the stone texture for the walls, but I went back to it and did the windows and really liked the colours. Greens, browns and blues really go well together I think.

I started off with two windows, one with light glass and dark metal and the other with dark glass and light metal. The dark glass one looked much better, but I wasn't too sure about the light metal so I combined them both so it was dark on dark, but made the metal more bronze coloured and made the glass a more greeny blue. It was still a little bit too realistic, so after adding the black outlines it was perfect.

I believe the door is the only thing I haven't talked about yet. There's not much to say really, its made with a reddy/brown version of the wood texture but with door like features painted on. I think it works well.

I think a good place to end is here. Maybe on Sunday I'll upload some new stuff and stick to Sundays. I uploaded today because I had waited far too long. That's just less than a week to get some other work done. See you then!