Adding Detail to the Blockout

 20/02/21 - Week 20

This week, I worked on adding some more detail to the blockout, this was mainly guided by the sketches I did last week. After getting some feedback, I ended up just going for one of the more modular designs as it was easier to play into my initial ideas and, as mentioned, was much more detailed and interesting to look at. 

I initially created one of the designs for the smaller arches I had created and I found that though I liked it, a lot of the detail was very small and wasn't beneficial for the design so I ended up simplifying it down when I started to implement them in. 

However, I found after implimenting them I was a bit stuck with the interior design as a whole. So I ended up going back and trying to create some more designs by getting some more reference of the more central pieces of cathedrals. I ended up realising that I hadn't really though about this area even though it would be one of the focal points.

Here are my designs that I came up with, as you can see I was mainly focusing on the area towards the end. After creating these I didn't really see anything that particularly struck out to me but I did end up liking some parts of design 3, 4 and 6. This in particular was the entrance and wall design of design 3, the window in design 4 and the large pieces on the ceiling of 6. I also identified the alter in design 7 as working well.

Design 6 was difficult to me as I didn't really like the large piece hanging down as I thought it would distract from the boss if it was just below it, but I liked the pattern of the circle.

With all of this in mind I took all of these into Max and tried to piece it all together.

Looking back, I definitely should have produced a sketch of all these ideas together as in the end it was quite difficult to try to think about all of this at once. This was my finished design and finished blockout though. I am pretty happy with it and I think it encompasses all that I liked from the sketches above together to create an interesting environment. 

I still do feel that some areas are quite empty so this will be needed to sorted out at some point. Right now I think it would be a good idea to try to get some textures down and see what the piece is looking like in marmoset.