My finished 3D model :) happy days

Finally I'm finished :) very very happy with this outcome . i found using maya a nightmare from hell though. but after what seemed like 1.000.00 crahses it seems than i finally managed to do it :). i feel that i really pushed and challenged myself with this project seeing as 3D modelling is not my thing. but yeah woooo its done.

3D modelling progression shots :)

start ....

...Finish

LA norie church design so far!

FRONT VIEW 

TOP VIEW 

SIDE VIEW

Christ Crown of Thorns

"Built in 1858, Christ Crown of Thorns was a Gothic Revival masterpiece, but fell into disrepair after a tree collapsed the roof in the storm of September 1939. A work of leadlight rises above the abandoned alter, depicting the crucifixion and the weeping Virgin."

―In-game Description

This is the in game description of the church that i am inspired by and will use for inspiration on my 3D modelling. the things i like about this church is its dark mysterious looks and also in a strange way how run down it is, i like the fact that is a little bit destroyed and a little bit broken. I also think that it will also be very interesting to attempt to do that in my model a real challenge .

here are a few in game screen shot of the church. unfortunately all the photos are not the best quality :(

TERM 3 3D MODELLING :)

For our final term of first year games art and design at NUCA, we were told that we had to make a doorway from a game we are inspired by or find aesthetically pleasing.

I chose the game LA noire. The reason for this decision is that I love the idea of designing something to be fitted into the 1930-40’s. Also I love how that game looks I feel the rockstar (the developers) really nailed the texturing and lighting to give it a dark mystery kind of look. But where I am stuck is deciding what kind of building I want to make from 1940s LA. Originally I was thinking a front of some epic building that has high significance in the game, eg a library or a cathedral or even a film set (a film set because in the game there is a big section of story line where u visit different film sets).

Here is a selection of images I was originally looking at for inspiration.

But then I started to think about it more and was like realistically I'm rubbish at Maya and I have very little experience with modeling so  I recon I should simplify my idea. so i decided that i was going to focus of a smaller building, then i remember the abandoned church in the game where one of the villains to mass murder case’s hide out. And straight away i knew that that is what i wanted to do!