Week 3

Hey guys, sorry this post's up a bit late, I forgot to put it up earlier in the week! Hopefully you've all remembered to finish the weekly in-class and individual tasks by checking the week 3 page on Ros' website. Once you've made your posts for the week 3 task, add a comment to this post with links to those blog posts. Just make one comment each that has several links, one link per post you've made for this week.

In case anyone's unsure, this week's task requirements can be found here.

If you haven't finished the tasks from the previous weeks, please make sure you complete them so I can check you off for them in my spreadsheet :)

For a checklist of what to have up on your blogs:

- Download the sample assets package and put them in the appropriate folders within your CryEngineFreeSDK package. (more info in the weekly task link)

- Find an image of work for these landscape painters / landscape architects / architects / gardens (ONE PER PAINTER / ARCHITECT / GARDEN).

Claude Lorrain
William Gilpin
Capability Brown
Humphrey Repton
JMW Turner, and
One of the following examples of Chinese gardens shown in today's lecture - Liu Garden; Suzhou, Lion Forest; Suzhou, Zhuozheng Garden; Suzhou, West Lake; Hangzhou.

- Choose 4 of these reference images and recreate similar scenes located at various 'stations' or 'spots' within your island.

- Bring in objects you think are appropriate for creating a Picturesque landscape within your island, and that are also appropriate for your custom island. - Make sure the landscape you design can be explained in terms of these picturesque techniques:

dividing the image into foreground, middle ground, background
vegetation; trees, shrubs etc.
navigation, pathways, [roads]
framing the view
ruins
follies
bridges, animals, water, pathways, vegetation
ha-has / manipulating, shaping the land.

- Use Fraps to take high resolution screenshots and post them to your blog side-by-side with your reference images. (at least one screenshot per reference image)

- Choose a 5th reference image to represent within your custom island. Continue detailing your island, using vegetation, decals, roads, water volumes, terrain layer painting to enrich your island.

- Upload a short clip demonstrating the results of today's tasks, navigating through your custom island to the places you set your scene. Upload to Youtube and link it to your blog. You can also embed the video in your blog if you wish, but be mindful of how wide the video is so it fits properly on the page.