For starters, this project for my 3d area is to create a house in 3ds Max. The house should be an old but an interesting building, and it would be ideal if I could get reference images from all sides. I struggle a lot with the 3d side, and for the last few weeks I have been battling it out whether to do a church or this pink house in Leicester. Anyway, I went home this weekend to relax, get my head together and to get advice from my old tutor. Whilst spending time with my dog, I stumbled across the old mill, which then resulted me in to cutting my poor dog's walk short and grabbing my camera whilst day light was still around. Since I was a child, this mill fascinated me due to it apparently being haunted, and the ghosts, and the myths and lies that surround the place with the deaths. Now, I'm fascinated by the history of it, and how it has evolved as a building.
Even better, I could get the reference images from all sides, and I know the owners of it reasonably well as I live in a small spit of a village. They were understanding that I wanted to take a hundred plus pictures of their house for reference, as the entire village knows I am an art student.
Here are some pictures of the house:
Now look at it. I mean really look at it. It is just a plain building. But this one building has seen more history than anyone else on this earth, and has experienced more seasons than we ever will in our lifetime. There's something kind of magical about it.
It also contains a kind of spooky atmosphere to it. If I told you that the little old lady that lived in this house was violently stabbed to death by her young jealous son, you would not be so surprised that it had happened in this house. Yes, it has had quite a number of deaths within, especially of the old woman looking out the window in the top front right window who peers out across the fields opposite. In my lifetime, there had only been a suicide of a young man in the kitchen, and people have claimed to still see his body hanging there in the kitchen. The main ghostly activity that I have seen is seen the lights being switched on then off again whilst no one has occupied it. It has got a bloody history behind it. However, the day and layout helped this atmosphere come across in the images, such as the bare stick tree outside the front, as I did take these images, this weekend, on a cold but dry day so it works.
My house in the village is over three hundred years old, so this old mill must exceed my house's life by many years. So it has ticked the old check box on the brief. The interesting side, as I have already outlined in my previous paragraphs, explains why I find it so interesting and why I believe it fits the criteria. Where else am I going to find a building that has such a colourful history?
From my point of view, as in looking at it from a 3d angle, the house is a simple straight structure, without many details in the architecture. It was not built to be fancy, but to be stable and strong for workers. The texture of the building is repetitive as it is just stone bricks and black tiles. The windows are extremely similar to one another and nothing at the minute seems too difficult. Overall, I do not think this will exceed the tri limit and it will make a great low poly count house.
So readers, this is my house that I shall be modeling for my lovely tutor Heather on my course. Let the fun times roll.
(I took these pictures 10th of November, after spending a week looking at random buildings in Leicester that I kept finding fault with cause they were not interesting enough or not old enough.)
Listening to: You Me At Six
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