COLLAB2021 – Red Hot Chili Peppers – House Accessories Team

[Peter Varga]

great stuff!

so, there’s three of us doing the wheel(?)

: )

the more the merrier!

I haven’t started modelling yet but it struck me as I was looking at the source, how would I go about the beams; more specifically if we “should” make them “structurally sound” first and foremost, or go for the “artistic irregularity”…

[Carlo]

I think we are with 5 people doing the water wheel, at least that’s what the spreadsheet tells us. 🙂

I was also thinking about connecting the wooden beams, maybe using steel connection plates. In the art it looks all wood, but it can be nice to use different materials.

[Peter Varga]

Thanks for the references @ladymito !

@lucky pureRef is my _best_ friend, especially when images start piling up…

btw, has anyone considered that there is only one stone bearing, second being the wall of the house itself (shaft going directly yhrough it)? 

maybe it’s just laziness speaking, taking over prior to even starting the modelling… but, from the information that I can extract from the image, it could be possible…
: D

[Peter Varga]

reserving Flea!
and that’s final…
; )

[Carlo]

Could be, at first I made one support. But the master file has two. Looking at reference most of the wheels have one support outside and the other one inside. 

[Beau Kromberg]

I’m also planning on water wheeling, but haven’t started yet because I’ve been reading about water wheels for a good day now and contemplating the concept art. 

The thing Ive been grappling with is the water that you can see on the forward paddles. The color around the paddle makes it appear as though theyre bucket style paddles, which is a thing,  however,  that style of paddle generally results in all of the paddles being part of the same ring. The space between the paddles  forces me into believing that the blue / white highlights on the paddles are just indicative of specularity from them being wet, not that they’re bucket paddles retaining water. 

I also ended up reading a good 6 articles about the history and development of water wheel technology over the last day.  Way more analysis than I intended to give this, but I’m an archaeologist and I’ve honestly never thought about the history of water wheels… and theyre kind of amazing. 

The closest real life example i could find resembling the concept art is the water wheel in Bayeux Normandy.

Theres another in this style that is a bit different in Vojkovice C.R. 

I could talk waaaaay more about water wheels at this point, but I’ll spare you all and start my blocking.  😀

[Ivan Cipriani]

Done the blockout for the sign post… any suggestions/comments welcome!

[tiramisu]

I just realized all the vases are pretty much the same but with different lids haha xp

[Phil Osterbauer]

These blockouts are looking awesome! Way to go team! I think the the water wheel had more sign ups than expected but we are going to….go with the flow. It’s great to see you guys are already comparing notes and figuring things out.

If you haven’t seen, Kent updated the HQ thread with an announcement today. Take some time to go over what it says.  I would link to it directly but that seems to be bugged still for the moment.

I’ll be updating the links above to include the newcollab2021 discord server! Its a great way to get real time responses to questions and get to know your fellow team mates. Feel free to @ me here or on the discord server with any questions you might have. 

I hope day one of work has been going well, keep up the awesome work, happy Blending!

[Phil Osterbauer]

Great work Ivan, the sign has really taken shape. The only critique I could give is you could probably push the shape of the pepper a liiiiittle bit more. You’re nailing it otherwise.  Keep it up! 🙂

[Phil Osterbauer]

Wow, the real ones really are a pretty work of engineering. Great reference. 

[Carlo]

@lexicolopolis, I know what you mean. Before opening Blender I also did some research. Because the paddles look very thick in the art and it’s an open structure, like in your reference, I imagined the paddles to be real buckets holding water. But that only makes sense when the water is comming from above like in the picture below. So I do think it’s more like your reference but with thick solid paddles….. Maybe I’m overthinking this ;). 

[ladymito]

I was also doing some research a couple of weeks earlier on that very topic. The only conclusion I came to is that we shouldn’t make it so realistic. After all, we are making a stylized work and low poly. It clips our wings and spreads them at the same time.

[Carlo]

@ladymito, I agree. Keep it simple but believable. 

[Ivan Cipriani]

Copy that! thank you!

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