Joe Caleno's Blog

  Finished Painting.  Matte Painting Gif.

 Art Nouveau architecture uses very organic shapes and forms.  This architecture is really interesting. I almost looks like it is melting. It really reminds me of Dahli's surrealism. He uses a lot of melting, organic shapes in his work. The way the stained windows also follow the shape of the building is also effective.  This building is heavily decorated. There is alot going on with this its architecture too. When looking at this building your eyes are always busy. Every time you look at it, you find something else to look at. Going back to the gnome house idea, this type of architecture really looks like somewhere a gnome would live. The way nothing is symmetrical. I also started looking at plantation houses and the way the trees tunnel our vision and make us look straight at the house. The trees help make the house look important and grand. I want the pipes in my scene to be the trees in this and the plantation house will be the toilet house.  

  Using Pics Art, I put together this image. This is roughly what I'd like the texture of the toilet house to look like. The reason I have picked this colour and included white spots is because of Toad's House from Mario.  Toad's house really reminds me of a gnome's house too. Gnomes also seem to live in unconventional living areas and living in a toilet in Armilla sounds like a perfect fit. Through this, I'm also making the nymphs sound like gnomes. 

  This is the Top, Right Side, Front, Left Side. Then bellow is the back. This simplistic approach of drawing will make it much easier to use in Maya. I won't get confused with lines or anything like that. 

  When I started thinking about the idea of toilet houses in Armilla, the first thing that came to my head was gnome villages. Gnome villages houses have very organic shapes, they're very rounded and do not normally follow a particular shape.  At first look, they look very untidy. The way people make them looks like gnomes have actually built it.   A toilet, just like this, doesn't look anything like where someone would live. However, if you was to remove certain parts and change it up a bit it will.  You may not agree with me, but I feel like this toilet bowl could be a strange looking house. There could maybe be a small doorway at the bottom of the toilet. When I come to texturing my final model too, I want it to be red with white spots. This idea was influenced by Toad's house from Mario. It will also make the toilet look a bit more like a gnome house. 

 I am going to be modelling the street view. When modelling it, I want to show the sheer scale of the pipes and make each pipe unique if that means simply turning them so each pipes looks different to their neighbour.  I have thought about what I want each pipe to look like. I started looking at the pipes from Mario. These pipes will be very easy to model. Maybe a bit too easy. I want to give myself a challenge because then I will feel like I have achieved something. I may model some pipes like the Mario pipes tom use for extra detail however I am going to try my best to steer away from them.  I want to give Armilla a more lives in feel. At the moment, my version of Armilla is just a forest of pipes. Adding details like baths, maybe even houses will make Armilla seem more of a place people are meant to live in.