May Entry: The North East Towers of Jocelyn Castle

[NeonKnight]

Looking good!

[Torq]

Here is a version with background, including blur and a weak cloud layer below the level of the action. Since including the background I've had to compress the file much more to get it under the limit, so there is a significant drop in quality.

After the challenge I will post a hi-res version.

Torq

### Latest WIP ###

[jfrazierjr]

Me thinks I have found the entry I shall vote for....

Nice work Torq, that is really cool. I like the "roof" line below the main turret, it's a rather nice effect and very realistic. Great job on the flagstones for the floor, those are sweet... did you do those by hand or use a mosaic filter in PS? And the broken stone/mortar showing the underlying base roof material is really a great artistic touch that makes the floor come alive (thought they don't look quite deep enough inset to match the tiles that are laying around thickness wise).

One thing about the background though, the scale make it seem as if the "camera" is about 10 stories up. Not a complaint, just an observation.

[ravells]

Superb work, Torq! Really sweet entry!

[Torq]

Me thinks I have found the entry I shall vote for....

Great job on the flagstones for the floor, those are sweet... did you do those by hand or use a mosaic filter in PS? And the broken stone/mortar showing the underlying base roof material is really a great artistic touch that makes the floor come alive (thought they don't look quite deep enough inset to match the tiles that are laying around thickness wise).

One thing about the background though, the scale make it seem as if the "camera" is about 10 stories up. Not a complaint, just an observation.

The Flagstones are just a texture I got on the CGTextures website. It had a few seams though that I fixed manually. Its all done in Gimp and I applied a slight bump map to try and take away the very flat feel.

The drop shadow between the flagstones and the underlying cobbles is different in size from the drop shadow cast by the removed flagstones. I will fix that.

I was trying to create the impression that this castle is unbelievably tall, but maybe I went overboard a bit.

Thanks for the kind words.

Torq

[jfrazierjr]

I was trying to create the impression that this castle is unbelievably tall, but maybe I went overboard a bit.

You achieved that very well.. of course, you could play off of that and make the castle a flying castle and just leave as is...heh...

Thanks for the kind words.

Your very welcome.

[Redrobes]

Thats 75K of pure sweetness right there.

Edit -- do you want to put another WIP tag in... Seems a shame not to !

[RPMiller]

Thats 75K of pure sweetness right there.

Edit -- do you want to put another WIP tag in... Seems a shame not to !

I added it for you Torq.

That there is an incredible result given the allowable size and would definitely give the players fits as the moved about their tokens realizing that one misstep would send them to their doom. Doom, I say. DOOM!! Ahem. I'm done now.

[Midgardsormr]

I was trying to create the impression that this castle is unbelievably tall, but maybe I went overboard a bit.

Take that Rapunzel!

[Torq]

Thanks for all the very kind comments. Here is an almost finished version, with creepers, flags, statues anda few shadows added. Its slightly over 75 kb but I will make sure the finished one fits with the rules

Torq

### Latest WIP ###