Houses

I'm very interested in houses lately. Especially old classic buildings.
All the little details, ornaments, and just the evidence of decay, that it has been there all this time. I love it.

I've been to Italy past summer and I made dozens of photos of little houses, stained old walls, little balconies, the flowers on each balcony, the swing doors for the windows, the curled street lights, the little doors and windows (there's a home hidden in every corner), the arches shadowing the tiny streets.. I can go on and on and on.

I've also been to Luxemburg and my interest in houses also lies in city centre buildings, still they're classic, but you can't see the decay aswell as in Italy.
And I've seen Perfume; the story of a murderer a week ago, and I just loved the backgrounds! Especially the bridge with all the houses on it, above the Seine river, in Paris. I loved the artwork on that one. It's absolutely stunning.

All the above made me want to draw houses and I just tried. Especially the bridge of Perfume gave me inspiration. But I wanted to add asymmetrical and lopsided houses. I love sloppiness when it's on purpose. So I ended up with this, and I kinda like it a lot. I definitely want to make more of this... If I would make more with the same theme, I thought, I could even make a tiny exhibition. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Results of 3D semester

I didn't even realize I hadn't posted my videos of the 3D semester.
Very bad of me to just forget.. Maybe I was to glad that it was done and that I made it. It's already such a long time ago, and I don't know if I want to go into detail.
Let's just say I have the feeling I only just made it to the third year. I definitely want to be better next year and I want to work on it very badly.

Anyway. I'll just show you the videos that I made.
In the end my character just bounced a bit across my self-designed forest and there wasn't really a story behind it. I was really desperate to just finish something in the end. The way I planned things was way off, and I definitely need to work on that. Although I have to say I was quite happy at the time that I even finished something and I had to work so hard in the last week, to even make this happen. So in a way I was proud that I could show something and that it wasn't a total failure.
The second video was about getting across the atmosphere, in this case, a scary forest, in which you feel haunted.
In the end I really had to juggle with some things, but I do think I made the right choices. Definitely the right choices to at least make it to the third year. But enough with the details, because I said I wasn't going to tell about them.

This is what I made of it, and I really did my best, and if that's the case, I couldn't have done any better at the time.

(my character is in playblast, because there was no time left to render it.. I rendered a few stills, so I could show how it should have looked)





This is my scary forest :


I'll be uploading more shortly, because I'm walking behind schedule.