Castle Making and Stuff.

 

Hi, welcome to my post for this blog. In this project, we had to do any type of castle. Last year I did this flying castle concept for a reading week so this time I decided to stick closer to the ground and with more detail. 

Problems n' stuff I had to deal with. 

         Numerous challenges really, being that I did not do what I said and make landscapes/concepts on rhino so I wouldn't have to do perspective. Therefore I was a bit hesitant to even start the project as I forgot some of the commands. But thank god for muscle memory and constant repetitive usage of the commands that I was able to (what I think is) my previous knowledge level of Rhino. 

As I had this other file from last year I just stole its outer arches and used it for this one. Already when comparing this and the one I made recently I think there's a bit more detail.

here's the link to my old post I got this castle from here

I had to get the overall feel and shape of what I wanted first so I wanted maybe of a church feel. This was more heavily inspired by Mont Saint Michel in a few places however I added some fantasy elements and got rid of things like the flying buttresses. I kinda regret that now because I want to make them now.

(Extra info: One thing I was considering was the different layerings of church design seen in mont saint Michel as its completion took a hefty period of time, new portions were added that were from another period ie. the flying buttresses) 

To grant me some time for this project I did what I've done before and made a composition of objects in a certain manner that does not require the entire thing to be done only a section. Aka I just did the front side so the back does not look like anything.

In one of the example castle projects, I saw some columns so I made some columns on the wall. There was somewhat of a problem with doing the split then split again technique shown above so I just redid it again till it worked. I'm guessing it was because it was not aligned properly as I was working very very small and despite the snaps I had they did not help.  

Lighting wise I played around with the sun feature putting the castle roughly around the same area as Mont Saint Michel. Using mostly noon and around fall time sun for the lighting effects. 

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In conclusion, I guess I didn't forget as much Rhino as I thought and I panic a lot, and I'm tired.