Town Layout

The second scene overlooks the town on which the eagle transformed dragon hovers. The castle was modeled by me but the town was modeled by John H. However, I had strip them down and make it twisted and old like the castle. Also,look a lot more papery.

 Then, I organised them around the space to look more like a town. Placed my beloved trees around. Even placed a few houses a little far to make it look like a receding town. Then as the dragon moves forward some trees were put on the barren landscape.

Editing Dwarf Houses

John H. Had created the dwarf towns. However, I had to strip them down and remake some parts of it to make it look more papery. They were also very perfect like my previously modeled castle. So, I had tweak them here and there to make them look old and withered. Further, some houses were clustered and that took away the papery-ness of the scene, so I had to de-cluster them and make more befitting our vision.

John H. town

 Changed 

Editing Dwarf Castle

The castle looked new and shiny and we wanted something that looked a bit aged and a little destroyed. So,I stripped down bits and parts of it to make it look old,papery and fading.

I tweaked it in several places to make it look a little twisted and less perfect. I even remodeled the towers and the outer boundary to show paper thin walls.

Paper Trees

It was essential for the towns to have trees. I thought it would look incomplete without them. My thought was how can any life exist without trees. So anytime we discussed town design I would always bring in the subject about trees.

The tree on far right was made on the concept art of Lilly(as shown below,tree on the far right).

Lilly's Concept Art

The tree in the middle was modeled as a simplified version of the right elaborate tree.

Further,the tree on the left was made on a doodle that Kieran had sketched as a reference.

These trees are arranged in all the scenes giving it a very papery feel throughout.

Dwarf Castle

 We needed a dwarf castle near the dwarf town. So, I modeled this referencing here and there on how a castle might look. I found some interesting castle images online and some of the books on Tolkien art. I took in what might be best for our purpose.

I wished to do some landscaping as a castle should look grand and luxurious. However, as much detail I might have put it would have made the castle look less papery. Kieran was very focused and clear on what he wanted. So, he asked me to be careful and refrain from extra detailing.

Origami Mountain Paper Test

Since we had decided the look to be papery we we looking at different origami art pieces and working out their look in 3D space, I got this photo of the internet as a reference.

Reference Image

I stopped the modeling mid-way as it was looking very busy and quiet an overdose. However,it gave me a good idea of how to replicate the paper-folds that are evident in this example on other environmental models that I intended to make.

Pre-Visualisation of the layout for the town

We were following the map for the layout of the environment. So, I placed various assets modeled by John H., Rebecca and myself to see how it might look.

The Lonely Mountain

Originally we had planned to replicate the mountain in the map but then we moved on to a much papery looking art style for our hobbit promo.