Cartoony castle

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

Watch

# 1 29-01-2007 , 09:22 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006

Posts: 234

First of all, a thankyou to enhzflep, gster123 and R@nSid for suggestions and advice regarding displacement mapping and so on. So here is the first stage of my latest work - which I've kept simple so I can learn a few tricks along the way (The spider I have had to put to one side since I am nowhere near experienced enough in texturing to battle that one for a while)

The colour texture is very rough (hence the strange line in the centre of the middle brick) - it's just there as a template so I know where all the bricks are, and all this so far is done with a very simple model and a displacement map which I did in Photoshop.

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: tower.jpg
Views: 371
Size: 18.7 KB
ID: 32607

Quote

# 2 29-01-2007 , 09:35 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006

Posts: 234

and here is a slightly better render with some shadows

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: tower.jpg
Views: 369
Size: 18.1 KB
ID: 32608

Quote

# 3 29-01-2007 , 09:41 AM

Subscriber
Join Date: Oct 2006

Location: Melbourne

Posts: 313

Alriiight!

Nice stuff RadicalEdward, coming along very nicely.

Glad to have coontributed and shown how painfull the modelling of the bicks would have been.

Should go very nicely 'carboard cutouts' of the folliage you posted previously. 10 points to whoever it was (sorry, I forget) that displayed the idea..

Thanks also to gster123 and R@nsiD for stating the (now) obvious about the displacement maps. Gotta love hindsight being 20-20..

S.

Quote

# 4 29-01-2007 , 09:52 AM

Moderator
Join Date: May 2005

Location: Manchester Uk

Posts: 6,300

Yeah, coming along nicely.

Good thing about doing it this way is that you can then use the displacement as the basis for the colour map, spec, bump and whatever else you need it for, for me much easier than going the modeling route.

"No pressure, no diamonds" Thomas Carlyle

Quote

# 5 29-01-2007 , 10:21 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006

Posts: 234

I'm certainly seeing the benefits. Instead of taking hours to do the texture, this only took a few minutes

Attached Images

Quote

# 6 30-01-2007 , 05:13 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006

Posts: 234

some work on the ramparts, and cleaned up the textures on the main castle

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: tower.jpg
Views: 318
Size: 18.1 KB
ID: 32633

Quote

# 7 30-01-2007 , 02:13 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005

Location: Australia

Posts: 159

Hey really nice work. Really like how this has been stylized and the colours. Keep up the work and one day you should try Zbrush user added image

Quote

# 8 31-01-2007 , 11:09 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006

Posts: 234

finally finished the stonework for the ramparts. Just need me a door, window shutters and a couple of other bits and then the basic model is done.

Quote

# 9 31-01-2007 , 11:10 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006

Posts: 234

forgot the pic :p

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: tower.jpg
Views: 306
Size: 17.0 KB
ID: 32666

Quote

# 10 01-02-2007 , 01:46 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006

Posts: 234

and finally some privacy.

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: private.jpg
Views: 280
Size: 18.5 KB
ID: 32679

Quote

# 11 01-02-2007 , 05:36 AM

Subscriber
Join Date: Jan 2007

Posts: 86

That looks great! I love the style!

Quote

# 12 01-02-2007 , 06:16 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004

Location: Cleveland, Ohio (USA)

Posts: 1,541

i definitely dig the style, too. it looks great - but the window sill looks a little stiff compared to everything else.

Accept no substitutions.

Quote

# 13 01-02-2007 , 08:25 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006

Posts: 234

yeap. I have bashed the windowledge a little and added the shutters.

Attached Thumbnails

Click image for larger version

Name: tower.jpg
Views: 261
Size: 19.2 KB
ID: 32683

Quote

# 14 01-02-2007 , 08:39 AM

Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004

Location: Cleveland, Ohio (USA)

Posts: 1,541

much better. definitely love the model, textures, and style. (especially with the cardboard cutout bushes you have in the other thread) user added image