Creation

3rd November 2017

Like many people, when I think of tombs and temples, I think of Indiana Jones and that iconic scene of with the boulder at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark.  After some quick research, I found out that that was filmed in Cambodia so I started to look up Cambodian temples and what they look like for some inspiration.

Cambodian Temples

The first thing that I saw was the environment that each of the buildings were in. They were Jungle settings, with a lot of grass but a lot of earth showing through too. So to start, I decided to make the grassy hills and some dirt to go with it and this all started with a flat polygon plane.

Polygon plane

 After using the sculpt, smooth, relax, foamy, scale and move enlarge tools on multiple planes to create a landscape.

sculpted landscape

Textured landscape, dirt expansion

So that I could differentiate between the grass and the dirt. I was thinking of leaving it as it was for the final design until I was told it would be better to unwrap the textures. 

Because of this, I looked up some tutorials for unwrapping them which taught me some techniques which I will use for the final product.

I continued with the modelling and added mountains to surround the landscape. I also learned how to repeat UV for tile-able textures rather than doing it in Photoshop.

View of landscape

View of landscape 2

View of structures

 After finishing off the temples and shrine for my project, I was happy with what they looked like so I added a fountain to the middle of the scene. I also changed the texture of the temples so that they stood out from the ground they were on because they looked more like sandcastles to me.