Evaluation

What was good?

I think that the overall production of the final castle is very good. Having done my research i had a clear idea of what i wanted to produce. I have a lot of interest in ancient rome and i wanted to base my idea around a caslte that could be placed in that time era.

What could improve?

I think that my time management could have been better. I had some problems with my UV unwrapping because i did my walls together and not separately. This lead to problems textureing and unwrapping for uv maps.

Conclusion

I think that i used lighting well to create dynamic textures and produced a interesting scene. by using bump maps and opacity maps i think that the textures stand out really well. I also like the way that i created the terrain with photoshop. It gives the whole scene a real untouched feel. These ideas and processes together, make the overall look pretty good.

Developing My Castle

Here i was adding the texture to the corner tower. I also put a bump map on it so that it really makes the texture stand out.

this is the path that i created leading to my castle. I used an opacity map along with a bump map to get the desired effect for blending the road into the terrain.

here is the render.

this is the two corner towers rendered. 

Here is the render of the wall textures aswell using bump maps and a global light and a spot light with an orange colour to get a sunset effect.

Here is one ground texture i was working with but i didnt like it.

Then after some more experimentaion i got the desired effect by using a more sandy texture with a bump map.

unwrapped box

Ideas Generation

Creating a Gateway

Castle Keep

Wall Texture