Castle on the hill

Welcome to my Blog!

My name is Kitt, with two t's cause I sometimes like to say things twice.

I've loved Castles for a very long time, so I already had a good idea of what to build, so I started with a loose topological plan for my hill, path, and towers. It's pretty messy because I wanted to keep things loose at first:

Then I lofted all the hill parts and made it look like this:

Next I modeled one tower, and placed them in their respective spots, resizing them for shape diversity. But a castle wasn't complete without a main building, so below you'll see the iterations of my main building, the tower model, and the linework for the more complex model:

After this, all that was left to do was fill in the tower gaps with extruded walls, however I wanted my castle to have proper machicolations (the weird square protrusions from the tops of castle walls, and the murder holes underneath), so I made a simple, repeatable machicolation model:

After hand placing these atop the walls, this is what it looked like:

Overall, this was a great 2 day exercise. I really enjoyed putting some of my castle knowledge to work! Some things I learned: Don't work with angled shapes from the get-go, otherwise your gumball will be hard to use, so create the object entirely, then rotate it into place. I also learned alot of commands since completion that would make the more complex parts of the castle easier to make. Such as an array for the machicolations. If I would do it again I would make the path even, have more detailed towers, and make the hill more of a feature.

I also learned to keep things a bit more tight at first, instead of botching lines for pathways together, so less cobbling.

Anyways, I hope you learned from this, enjoy my renders! 

Moi moi! (Bye bye in Finnish)

- Kitt <3