COLLAB2021 - WIP - AndyBegg

First roof wood parts are done,

I've made 3 plank sizes long med short. I have 3 of each that can be copied where needed.
Means I'll only have 9 planks to sculpt. Small amounts of scaling should be okay to get them to fit in the other areas.


The other parts such as the ridge beams and trim will mostly have to be unique, although I may be able to get away with mirroring or reusing a couple.

Roof wood parts complete.

Tiles tomorrow.

I have a plan to use geo nodes for this as you can instance different tiles in an array.

Homework Submission - Week 1 - Roof

Hey @theluthier

I got a little carried away with blocking out the scene this week.

For the roof, I've made a set of parts that can be reused to keep the word down to a minimum.
I have 3 of each beam that can be rotated, flipped, or mirrored to give a different look.
I have 9 tiles and have been using Geo Nodes to randomize them with an array modifier.

I'll stick the up-to-date file on the Gdrive so you can have a look.

I'm looking forward to doing some sculpting. :)

I love the layout planning andybegg and the clever use of instancing with geonodes.

Thanks for the feedback!

It's a really fun project can't wait for it all to come together.

Midweek  Update - Week 2 - Sculpting

Tile sculps are coming along nicely. I've been using the Zbrush stylized brushes for Blender https://gumroad.com/l/zMJlJ which has stencils that really speed up the workflow.

I've used both Multires and Remesh on these. but I find with multires the topology bunches up around the bevels or holding lines on the edges which were giving me issues on the sides or with any tiles that have cuts. So for the second last one, I've used remesh.

The downside to remesh is that tight cracks can merge and get muddy and sharp edges can be lost when remeshing.

For the last tile I've ditched the bevel and holing lines and did a multires with simple subdivide. this gave a more even topology but left some evidence of the hard edges of the lower mesh.

I may just use remesh for the final 4 tiles.

 I've dabbled in some texturing, but it's just a dirty vertex paint mask powering some colour changes and roughness, and a noise texture for some extra roughness and bump.

I haven't decided if I'll use substance painter yet for the texturing, but it would be nice to keep everything Blender.

I've sculpted one plank, for now, came out okay, in not sure about the swirly knots but it does look very stylised.

Texturing on the plank is very similar to the tiles

I also tested out a bake, on 1024 texture. came out pretty well I think.

Homework Submission - Week 2 - Roof

Hey @theluthier

Unfortunately, I've not had enough time to sculpt all the pieces this week, it's a lot of sculpting, and it's not my strongest area.

I was very happy with the first plank and my tiles, but I've been struggling to replicate my early success with the other wood pieces.

I seem to keep overworking them, but I suspect that once they are baked and textured they will look okay.

See the post above for a breakdown of my work earlier in the week

Here is some cavity views of what I've got so far.

UV unwrapping and texturing won't take me very long, so I'll continue these into week 3 to get them finished :)

I've separated the master Blockout parts into a separate file for sculpting, and I've uploaded it to Gdrive as WIP_house_roof_andybegg_Sculpt_01.blend so you can have a look. :)

After UV unwrapping and texturing I can replace the masters in the main file and they should populate the rest of the roof.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Cheers,
Andy

@theluthier

High praise from a master sculptor, and I heard you were a harsh grader ;)

I agree I'm not a fan of that crack either, I get rid of it. :)

Looks like the style is a pass! Keep up the great work. I agree with the crack finding. Otherwise this is looking stellar.

Homework Submission - Week 2 - Roof 

Hey @theluthier

I'm still running a little bit behind on this one.

I still have the roof-trim pieces to complete and get everything replaced on the roof.

 I'm not overall that pleased with the consistency of my sculps, some parts I'm very happy with, other bits not so much.

Textures from the sculpt, I'm pretty much good with.

Here are some shots of the completed parts, some examples of the textures, and the tiles in place on the roof. :)

I'll tag you in any further updates getting all the wood on the roof.

was just posting it :)

@theluthier here are the compleated wood and tiles in place. I still need to flip and rotate some planks to radomise some of them. And the trim parts I should finish before tomorrows livestream :)

@theluthier

Yeah, I noticed that when I was repopulating the roof that I had missed them from my sculpting file.

As that part of the roof might be changing I didn't rush to complete them last night. Although I know that's not the main aim of the projects, as it stands, my roof seems to xerox pretty well with the artwork. Would you like me to change it to match the new block out or keep it the way it is?

For the wood beams, I could make a few that can be copied around. I've already blocked out the mill beams, I'll do the house and work out how many I need. :)