{"id":1169,"date":"2015-08-06T22:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2015-08-06T22:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:56:31","slug":"back-to-the-drawing-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/08\/06\/back-to-the-drawing-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the drawing board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know I have been working to try and create a picture in Blender of Shade, the location of my fantasy novels. As a Blender noob, I have been referencing some absolutely brilliant YouTube videos. Problem is, I have been creating a scene that really does not match my internal vision of the place. Here is where I have go to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-06_22-07-15.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1170\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-06_22-07-15.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-06_22-07-15\" width=\"752\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-06_22-07-15.jpg 954w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-06_22-07-15-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-06_22-07-15-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It looks pretty cool &#8211; a real modern city-scape. The problem is that my original concept is of a place like Venice crossed with Jack the Ripper&#8217;s London crossed with an Indian slum. Definitely not this. Disappointingly it has taken me hours to get to this point. But one thing that I have learnt over the years is not to throw more resources at something that does not fulfil the requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Ah!<\/p>\n<p>And there it is &#8211; I had no idea of my requirements when I started. I had merely seen this wonderful video tutorial by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GlebAlexandrov\">Gleb Alexandrov<\/a> and thought &#8220;I must do that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what image should I create to represent Shade?<\/p>\n<p>Probably many &#8211; not just one.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly I might want pictures of that strange magical city-within-a-city of Shushtar, seated within the huge stone butte called The Krak and also within the labyrinthine caves of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know I have been working to try and create a picture in Blender of Shade, the location of my fantasy novels. 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Here is where I have go to: &nbsp; It looks pretty cool &#8211; a real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[27,28,11,48,3,17],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arttuts","tag-3d","tag-3d-art","tag-art","tag-blender","tag-fantasy","tag-fantasy-art","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-06_22-08-05.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}