BC1-1808 Homework, Katerina Novakova

[Katerina Novakova]

My homework thread for the  August 2018 Class

To keep track of the homework, I’ve decided to put links to the gallery here:

Week 1: Primitive village (with additional close-ups)

Week 2: Antique clock

Week 3: Centaur statue

Week 4: Ornate jewellery box

[Kent Trammell]

Always a pleasure doing classes with you, Katerina. I look foward to seeing your creations! Thanks for starting your thread 🙇🏻‍♂️

[Zsolt Cseh]

@shiennar Katerina is going to take all the XPs as usual 😀 Great to see that you participate again, I am always very interested in your imagined climates in Blender

[Katerina Novakova]

@csehz That’s very kind of you to say, thank you. I’m working on something special for my first scene (way too ambitious as usual) so I hope I won’t disappoint. 🙂

[Katerina Novakova]

Homework Week 1

Last time I did this exercise I created a primitive room. I thought I’d go beyond that this time…

Almost a thousand objects later, I think I might have overstretched myself a little. 🙂 But I love this exercise. It forces you to think about objects differently and find creative solutions to problems you could easily solve in a more traditional way. (Like creating a church bell from primitives. And yes, there is a church bell. About two pixels high.)

I’m fairly happy with how things turned out, even though there are still many that could be improved. The trees are not as varied as I’d like them and there is a lot of space that feels empty. I also tried to stay on top of things by naming everything appropriately but I have developed several naming conventions so things are not 100 % neat.

With that said I’m going to post this slightly ahead of schedule so that you can find any errors I have missed (and I’m sure there are some). There is the download link for the scene.

I’m going to write my usual blog post later today where I’ll detail some of the issues I faced when creating the scene. It will be available in the gallery together with the render and a few in progress images.

[smurfmier1985]

@shiennar Wow, your scene is wonderful, getting truly inspired by it! Maybe a cross on top of the church? Beautifully done Katerina, I love it 😍

[Scott McClellan]

I KNEW IT!!!! The earth is flat. I can just see that poor bloke at the end of the pier thinking “What if I cast my line just out a little further? Will I catch the fabled sea monster.” 

In all seriousness, VERY nicely done – all the detail – countryside picturesque

[Katerina Novakova]

@pffsfs I love reading your comments, Scott, they always make me laugh. 🙂 And thank you, I’m glad you like it.

[Katerina Novakova]

@smurfmier1985 Thank you. I was thinking about adding the cross, but then I thought that not all churches necessarily have them and I liked it better this way. It’s one of many details that I ended up not adding – another one is boats at the pier and swans on the river. Well, maybe next time. 🙂

[yukino hatake]

this scene is really wonderfull . so much details like the tree’s the rocks houses and those sheeps (also nice job with the fence .is it called fence ? )  and then there is the fisherman 😀 lovely done . i also like the lightpurple pink background with the clouds it fits completly 😀

[Katerina Novakova]

@yukinoh1989 Thank you. 🙂 I don’t know if shepherds call it a fence but I sure did. Choosing right names for various odd parts often seemed more difficult than to actually create them. As to the background, that’s another struggle of mine. Finding the colour that will complement the rest of the scene. I spent quite a lot of time in the colour picker and this was the only one I liked. I’m glad I’m not the only one. 

[Wilco Wilbrink]

This is beautiful. I love it! I have a soft spot for isometric low poly scene’s. 😃👍 

[Aaron Rudderham]

@shiennar “Phew! Worked my backside off finishing my homework, quite proud of it in a way! I wonder how everyone else is doing?”

*sees this*

Nah in all seriousness you’ve done a fantastic job, I won’t lie that I’m jealous of your skills but I can certainly appreciate the attention to detail here. Looking at your previous beginners class isometric scenes really seem to be your muse so I’m really looking forward to seeing what you’ve got up your sleeve for the rest of this class!

[Katerina Novakova]

@thecabbagedetective That’s funny, Aaron, because I had the exact same reaction a few minutes ago, looking at your scene. 😀 And you did surpass me in the number of objects used, so there is that… I’m still lagging behind in my resolution of being more active in the thread(s) but I’ll be sure to drop by and leave a comment.

[silentheart00]

Nice!  Good for you for pushing yourself.  Colors are great, some of the details are nice.  You know where you’re lacking, so no need to repeat that.  Good work.

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