Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Final Draft: Energy Tower

Been a while since I last updated, but I've got a rather good one this time around! Presenting the Energy Tower! This tower is the final result of an assignment in which we were tasked with modelling and texturing a 3D Building. I based the design off a combination of a Tesla Tower and the tower of Barad-Dur as shown in the Lord of the Rings films. I ended up deciding to make the tower smaller, which gave me the idea to add ladders on each floor. I originally planned to make a stairwell or spiral ramp up the tower, but couldn't get it to look right and ultimately scrapped the idea. The idea of the energy tower is that a large machine at the ground floor powers up a large sphere of energy at the top floor, held in place by six claw-like brackets. I'm very happy with how the dark atmosphere turned out on this one. And the fiery sphere's illumination in contrast to the darkness around it.

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