The Great Tree

Durin Mephit · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject:

Not to crush your spirit, Cyc, but Tweek has said elsewhere he has started on not only a Delin glass window, but a Great Zero glass window too!
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Moiety Jean · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

Great Zero would be tough. That thing is phenomenal to start with.
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Cycreim · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

Progress report:

I'm close to done (I feel like I've got the grime level just about where I want it) but it still needs some restoration in areas.

EDIT: After a few hours of tweaks... still not done Razz

EDIT AGAIN: Done. Smile

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dcos · Great Tree Member Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1174

Cyc that is amazing! I like getting to see the three stages of restoration.

Eleri · Great Tree Member Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 819

this is the most I've got so far:

I'm about ready to hand it over to someone who can make it look like real glass. Grr.
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Professor Askew · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:04 pm Post subject:

Well done, Eleri! And it already looks like glass. It's just a cloudy day is all. But, I think you've done a pretty darn good job capturing the atmosphere.
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Moiety Jean · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject:

Well, that's two people already using the little marbles I was hoping to incorporate for snow. Maybe I should leave this one up to you guys. Razz

I haven't even started laying mine out yet.
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tetters · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject:

Cool...what software are you folks using to come up with these? I'd like to give it a go, except I'm afraid I'll come up with something scary instead of artistic.

Curious Cyc. I like the faces in yours. I was wondering if they have any historical signifigance to D'ni culture? I guess they could be anyone at the time. Such as the writer who wrote the book and the current king at the time the age was created.
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CuzinJohn · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject:

OMG!! Cyc's stained glass is like a big Seek-N-Find!

I Spy with my little eye...

A POKEBALL

and

MY AUNT SUSAN!

Seriously... Awesome awesome work... I hope all of you are submitting these.

I love the little marbles a few of you are using for snow... and Eleri, I love how you worked the falling leaves into the leading.

Bravo one and all!
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Cycreim · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject:

Done, AGAIN, based on some recommendations by Daed... I hope this is much more readable.

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Daedalus · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject:

I think this is much clearer, Cyc. I'll have to comment more on it in a bit but I say -- good show! I'm digging the framework.

Cyc pulled my leg. I'll be making a post soon. Smile

Durin Mephit · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject:

Cycreim,

I'm trying to understand what you mean by "Readable."

I see you've changed the focus from the little tripod shelter to the rotating monument...
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Cycreim · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject:

Well you can read a picture by being able to understand what's going on in it. The other design with the gazebo was too complex, two of the trees were of the same height, it was super difficult to tell the foreground from the background... sometimes a composition can become so detailed that it loses its focus and it's hard to tell what's happening.

So I shortened the two trees on the right and changed the niggly little three-pillared thing into something with a lot fewer lines. I figured the statue could use some highlighting. Nobody seems to be paying attention to it.

I also removed a buttload of lead lines that I didn't need. I'm just noticing now that some of the new glass forms I ended up creating are unrealistic and probably couldn't be cut, but oh well. Nobody on the MOUL forums seems to be paying attention to that.

Also Eleri: you don't know what you're talking about, that totally looks like glass! And it's a wonderful design for such a natural and flowing Age. Smile

The only issue I see with it is that it's not old and nicked and scratched and sooty and grimy enough... for my tastes Razz

I want to post some of the techniques I discovered when making my window that really worked beautifully for me, but I want to put together some image examples of what I mean so it might be a few days...
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Eleri · Great Tree Member Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 819

I thought about the unrealistic lines, and then I went back into the Gallery and looked at the windows there. very few straight lines.

And yeah, it's not old looking at all. Havn't quite parsed how to do that and have it look restored.

I might do one to match the dangly Tsoghal window I did, too
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