Reply To: COLAB2021 – WIP – lexicolopolis
Was crazy busy at work this week so I haven’t had any time to really work on this until today, and I’m crazy excited to get this ball rollin’! After contemplating water wheels all week I started blocking this morning with the paddle shape that I felt seemed the most reasonable.
The concept art has chonky paddles, but due to their dimensions in comparison to the other items I broke them down into a frame of boards with a thinner veneer style face. This seemed to be the most logical way to have wood sizes that weren’t arbitrarily sized to meet the art, while still preserving the proportions.
For the outer wheel rings I initially didn’t separate them out into boards, but as I started to write this I realized that they probably should be. When it comes time to texture, I think it will get awkward painting wood grain for something as large and circular as these rings without them being separated into boards. Meanwhile the core axel could probably be made from a tree trunk, or metal if the wood gets weird looking in there. But the outer ring certainly would look very untrue to the concept art if made metallic.
If you look at the concept art, you cannot truly see completely through the wheel. It heavily implies that there is wood on the back face, so I filled the one side with boards. I also think this gives it a lot more character.
Basic Cobbles blocked out.
Going to start busting up the silhouettes and pulling a bit more geometry out, bevels, etc. Going to try to get this submission ready tonight, but if all else fails, by tomorrow evening.
I was sad that I didn’t really get time to work on this earlier in the week, so I’ll end up with less feedback to work with, but, any feedback is welcome and would be greatly appreciated!