Sewage Pipe

Ok found a tutorial of the internet about normal mapping which will decrease the amount of polygons by a load that sewage pipe on the right is over 1000 polygons one on the left is 1face, so it will help in rendering times but it needs work as we can see the light has a weird effect on it!

Texturing

Decided to search on the web about texturing as i dont know much about it and have found these websites that i am going to look at more in detail, later on.
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/nextgen_environment_textures/nextgen_enviro_06.asp
http://www.vailias.com/CGFX_Tut.htm
http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/Texturing

Sketches of Barcelona

These sketches were done in Barcelona, some were in the streets, train, monestary and gaudis place. Some of them could be relevant to the project through the objects in them anmd the style i have done them which are a bit like the housing in our project!

My Area So Far....

Ok this is an image of my work so far, i am pleased with it at the moment but still looks empty this week i will try an add a bit more character o it and make it look like people live here with objects left in the street like chairs, ladders, bins, benches, crates etc.

I really like the lighting, Alec helped alot with this especially the night light to give a dark purple feel to it.

The light at the bottom will need changing as it doesnt look right compared to the others.

But at the moment all is good, apart from the render times :s

Light Deux

Oh yes, Oh yes... what you been waiting for another proto...

Light Test

Ok today Alec, Dan and myself played around with lighting in the houses and have come up with this so far, i like the orange feel and glow to it, if we are to go with this type of lighting it will need tweaking and more understanding on lighting is needed but for now it is a good prototype!

Research

Well decided to look on the web for some inspiration on google and as always it refers to wikipedia so started of their on this page;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_style

When scrolling down saw this little bit and thought it would be useful for alec and I as we are doing the buildings;

Tudor style buildings have six distinctive features -
Decorative half-timbering
Steeply pitched roof
Prominent cross gables
Tall, narrow windows
Small window panes
Large chimneys, often topped with decorative chimney pots

It also had a link to Tudorbethan Architecture which is a 20th Century style of it, their are some houses near mine so may have a lokk at them take a few photos and sketches! That link is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudorbethan_architecture

Cant seem to find many artists around this time that drew these houses but will look into it for mean time here are some images i found guessing these are mostly around the 20th Century;