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Hello there! I'm Black!

Now you might be wondering what this thread is all about, yes? I am here to model our Aekea and render it all in 3-D.

I see this as a win-win because:

1 - We would have a 3-D model of Aekea
2 - We could have a town tour
3 - We could look around in the shops and buildings
4 - Good practice for me (Modeling (hard surface and organic), Texturing, Lighting and Rigging)

So what do ya say?

What I need is a LOT of references. When I mean a lot, I MEAN IT.

References needed:

[X] Blueprints of the entire town
[X] - Streets
[X] - Lots
[X] - Building placement
[ ] - etc.

[X] Blueprints of the individual buildings
[X] - View of the front (Line art and in color. Two must be separated. One for the modeling process and the other for texturing purposes)
[X] - View from the sides (Same as front)
[X] - View from the back (Same as front)
[X] - View from the top (Same as front)
[ ] - Floor plan
[ ] - View from the insides (all rooms if I'm taking the camera inside)


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For those who want me to model the insides of their buildings/stores:

You MUST have a floor plan and a view of the build from the insides. Like the views, one line art and the other is colored.

However, modeling your buildings is a service. The entire town itself, I'll do for free. The interior of the buildings have a price tag.

D8 I don't know how long the interiors are going to take me but I can tell you all right now, depending on the type of materials used for the texturing of the buildings and their interiors, the render time is going to be a VERY long one.

For a town tour, it's going to be even longer since we're talking about rendering frame by frame.

I want to start on this as soon as possible so that perhaps I can sharpen my skills when it comes down for the demo reel. owo

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to come and talk to me. =3

What I will be using:

Autodesk Maya 2009
Photoshop CS4
Final Cut Pro (Town/building Fly-throughs)

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Blue prints! I need them before I can get going on anything! XD

Kinda sorta like this:

http://www.zameen-zaidad.com/images/sliver-city-layout-plan.jpg
http://www.dronamraju.com/images/layout.jpg

Yeah. . . sweatdrop

I'm not gonna lie, I am absolutely useless for the actual construction of the blueprints. And I do agree that we're gonna need to discuss what we need to do, whose gonna do it, and how. This is prolly gonna be one of the top projects we do within the project, and I want everyone to pull in and do what we can.

That's true but then again look at how Barton and Durem are portrayed in the manga. D8 They're a heck of a lot bigger in there (or so it seems) than what is shown on the map.

Maybe what shown on the map is the down town area?

I think Aekea is different in that aspect BECAUSE of those walls, like Faust said. Barton is a bit different because it's one of the original towns and they have much less buildings, likewise with Gambino.

I will say however that I do consider Aekea to have a lot of those 'basement' shops in which the entrance to the shop is near the lower part of a building, and takes place in a basement of a building that might not need it. We could expand down, add floors to buildings, sneak a building that may not necessarily be there once and awhile, but nothing too drastic.

Oh, I thought you said you were only doing the outsides for now. The insides would cost extra. I was thinking that if some stores are underground (if it comes to that), people would pay you for that. I'm just saying that if we have to expand we can go down and up and not out, so we wouldn't give you more work without you getting profit.

I'm going to say no on the Orc Caves, mainly considering we don't have any orcs in the project as of yet. The main town is our goal here for now. xD