Nice, the only thing I see, which may start bugging you is looking at the shadow of the left side of the building in relation to your foreground building. It all seems like the left side is your sunny side, or maybe this is a cloud's shadow... I seem to remember the sun doesn't shine on Chandwell... but I'll always believe is shines pretty bright. Thanks, Don
Thanks Don. My layout is pretty evenly lit so it is hard to pin down exactly where the dark side is. If anything, it’s the front but it didn’t look good with the more front-on side being dark. It isn’t causing me any grief since I put it on so I think we are ok.
Looking forward to seeing what else appears back there. Two construction cranes, one further away than the other, would be the kind of thing that would be tricky to pull off but which would look grand if successful. Maybe a distant church spire. Maybe... uh... I'm out.
I actually thought it was 3d when I first saw it not completely flat. It looks great 👍 wish I had your skills with that program to make loads of backscene bits for my town area. Your whole scene is looking amazing now Regards Daniel
Hi Bob. Thank you for your concern. All is well. There has been a lot of “real life” and I have had a creative block with the “other side” of Market Street, so I’ve had a few weeks away from the layout. But I have made excellent progress this week and hope to have a video ready for next Friday. Cheers!
What part of the layout are you asking about, Molly? I don’t use chipboard, which I understand is wood. I tend to build with cereal packet card and greyboard card, either 0.5mm or 1mm thick. Most walls are built up from several layers though so are between 2 and 4mm thick.
My question and experience. Q - is the choice of the amount of perspective art or science? I.e. very long on one side, short on the other. Comment- the first time I used perspective the color disappeared, like it did for you. I tried to fill with color but it was all one path or something so i could not pick out shapes to color. Also it changed the view to outline so for quite awhile i could not fill objects. Took lots of googling to find this problem. . I tried perspective in a second time - and it retained the color. One problem, i could not adjust the color of the pieces. Is there some way to get at them?
This was completely trial and error. I knew I wanted one side longer than the other to suggest that the square building was not at exactly 45 degrees to the viewer. I used the same horizon line on both sides and experimented with the vanishing point. I’m not sure I understand the other parts of your questions. If you’d like to email hello@chandwell.uk, I can answer in more detail.
Master builder at work Michael, you make it look so easy in my eyes the true sign of an expect at work. The effect is so life like always a pleasure to watch, take care..
To answer your question. Yes, yes it does work. Very well I might add. There’s a lot of science/magic that needs to take place. In order for a building to look far away. And the fact that yours works 3 dimensionally and blends in with the sky, makes it perfect. Well done. Thanks. See ya next time.
Great work again. It looks very effective. I'd have been tempted to make it a bit taller to emphasise its dominance in the land-, sorry cityscape. But your point about viewing height is a very good one.
As always Michael you nailed it. Everything looks great. I always look forward to your videos and I always pickup new technics. Thanks and have a great weekend. Otto
It's exactly like dropping into Bishop from Coundon Bank Top, Michael. That council office building does dominate the skyline, even from the top of the hill, and you have got it spot on. George (a Spennymoor lad)
Hi Michael, Just amazing! you explain what you do quite simply but the results looks stunning! The time and effort you put in are well worth the outcome. Excellent sir.
Hi Michael - so very clever 😀. Until you showed a shot of the building on the cereal packet I thought it wasn't flat. So you decieved me which proves it works. Fascinating just listening to how you worked it all out. Great wee video. Cheers Euan 👍
Great, as usual!😉👍 Leonardo Da Vinci created the "sfumatto" technique based on that concept of distance. Adding layers of some white shading to distant objects, like mountains.
Would the Chandwell City Council have had the audacity to authorize such a building across the tracks from the Weir pub? If so, have you considered turning that corner support column into a large office building like this one? It might be an interesting way to mask/make use of it!
