Reply To: COLLAB 2021 – WIP – duerer

After watching the vod of the 1st stream I have a feeling that some kind of a q&a session would really benefit this whole collab as there are a lot of questions about less obvious things in my artwork. But I’ll do my best to answer allof your questions here.

1) Yes, all the roof slopes are symmetrical. Any distortion might come from the camera angle and perspective.

2) The creek flows from the mountains towards the viewer. To be honest at the time I didn’t think about the ground level being lower behind the house would make it impossible to work like that. So I guess reversing the flow is a solid option, but it would affect the spin direction of the wheel which I’m not too happy about. I heard there were some suggestions about the dam, but I’m not exactly sure how it would solve the problem.

3) Just modeled one tile, duplicated to make a column, adjusted angles and such, then duplicated columns along the slopes. That’s pretty much it. Nothing fancy.

4) Yeah since I didn’t think about the interior when I worked on that piece, I kinda placed the chimneys so they would work well with the overall silhouette. And now I guess I’ll have to figure out how to make them work inside the house as well 🙂

5) Yes, I imagined the bridge to be behind the house. I’ll try to make a general plan of the area tomorrow to indicate where everything is.

6) I didn’t plan to make any garden as my spice vendor gets all the spices from his journeys, and those few that he cultivates himself, grow in the oriel that you can see from the back.

Yeah, I have a feeling that when I’ll start working on the interior I’ll need that Harry Potter spell too xD