Presentation & Triumph Arch

On Wednesday, 15th of February I had a presentation and its scope was to inform the tutors with the current progress on the dissertation. This was a good opportunity to talk about all the good and not so good occurrences in the project. 

The project is on track and re-scaled with a more appropriate timeline and cut out the over-scoped aspects such as all the organic modelling and the special effects. This also changed some of the milestones giving some extra room for more adjustments and iterations that might occur later in time.

By having these excluded from the Circus, it can now be more focused on creating a more achievable and consistent result, rather than having a little bit from everything. After just one week we received the feedback and grade back from the tutors and I am very satisfied with the overall result and progressing so far.

During that week and even before I have also been working on the triumph arch in the front of the circus. I tried to keep the texel density as even as possible and still use the existing textures. I had to sacrifice some of the squares in small places due to the shapes to be accurate but tried to keep them away from the main view. 

I had a very difficult time trying to find some references and close ups on the arch, but I found a good one that could serve as a replacement and has very similar details. Here are some photos of the Arch of Constantine:

This is a very good base and I tried to model the arch using the exact details and pieces. I also got a very interesting diagram defining the main shapes and silhouette. I have skipped modelling the statues or the reliefs on the arch as it takes too much time, but I will still try and use a combination of normal and height maps to suggest the details at least.

 Here I have some previews straight from Max's view-port:

 It might look repetitive in the most part even with the final textures, but that is why decals were invented and I will use some to break that tiling. So far I am still in the polygon budget and I putting as much time and effort in this as possible.

References

Cartwright, M., 2013. Ancient.eu. [Online]
Available at: http://www.ancient.eu/uploads/images/1266.jpg?v=1485680440
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Mortel, R., 2012. Flickr. [Online]
Available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/prof_richard/7949648384
[Accessed 21 January 2017].

Vizzutti, M., 2008. The Arch of Constantine: A Tool of Propaganda and Change for the Roman Empire. [Online]
Available at: http://honorsaharchive.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/arch-of-constantine-tool-of-propaganda.html
[Accessed 22 January 2017].