Group Project (Week 2)

 Firstly, I improved my barrel a bit. I fixed the texture mapping on the top which was off and I aligned the shading on the binding around the barrel better so the crease isn't quite as noticeable.

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Secondly, I did a few sign textures. I planned to do more than I ended up with, and I also wanted higher quality results, but alas my muse was not with me. After thinking about how I was going to approach the signs, I realized that this was actually a much harder assignment than making a building, in my opinion. I needed to really understand these people that live on this Sci-Fi Japanese Island Fortress as well as know what all my classmates conceptualized, so that I wouldn't go contrary to that. It is tough, I basically needed to create a culture for these people, or not really create one, but understand or realize what their culture already is from the little information given to me. There is the fact that they live on a crescent shaped island, this could have been nature, which found it's way into their culture, or they could have created the island in a crescent shape purposefully because it is significant in their culture. Then there is the golden statue. I could be bold enough to say he is the god of the moon, whereas many cultures in Earth's past have worshiped the sun, these people could worship the moon. I've heard there is a link between the proximity of the moon to the rhythm of the oceans waves, or rising of the water level, something along those lines. Then you can link the fact they live on an island, the shape of the island, the statue, and generally their culture to the moon. (working this out as I type this.. but it seems to be going somewhere.. More later..)

Symbol means "Fish", and a crude drawing of a fish. It seems kinda bland, need a background color perhaps, or more dynamic placement.

Symbol means "Moon", sketchy style dragon and crescent moon drawing. I like the color scheme and how it is laid out, but I'm not sure if these would be fitting colors for worshipers of the moon. Seems like it should be blue and silver maybe. I'll try that out later.

Districts, Top symbol means "North", bottom symbol means "South".

Districts, Left symbol means "West", right symbol means "East".

I didn't make the models for the signs yet or add the texture of the actual sign/ruin it. I don't think that will take much time and it will really depend on how the city is put together and looks/feels. Also I will want to make quite a few more signs. Maybe some feedback will help in creating them. I have quite a few ideas for some, but I'd love hearing some others as well.

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Now because I hit a wall with the signs, I felt like I should do something else as well, to even things out. I had been playing with an idea of water mills along the island, perhaps just a few, but it sort of goes along with the solar panels/renewable resources. I have some cool concepts in my head, that I would like to make, but as a warm up I put a generic water mill together just in case I don't get around to the others.

I just reused the wood texture that I painted, but I will either find a new texture entirely, or do some work on it to specifically work for the windmill better. Also it could use some gunk, wear and tear, for the street cred.