Sunday, 15 April 2012

Reference Images for Doorway Design

These first three doors are from Venice and the surrounding area and unlike the others below their arched section features an eastern style point to it, and even the more domestic doorways are still embellished with carvings. Venice being a merchant town, it was very prosperous in the renaissance period and so a lot of its original architectural features remain today from that era.




The pictures below are taken of Florentine doorways. Florence showcases a range of simple square doorway designs, to elaborate arched doorways. However these doorways often feature a glass panel in the arch section of the doorway which is decorated in cast iron.










The doorways below are from Rome. All three of these styles shown are seen in the game AC2 and after playing the game, its great to see how accurate their designs are. This level of detail really aids the games excellent knack to set a scene and build the right atmosphere for the time period and location of the game. You know your are in Italy for many reasons when you play AC2, not just the sexy accents..... ;)









Websites which these images came from are numbered below, the pictures are numbered from the start of the post to this point 1-12 respectively. 


1   http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium/italy-venice-door-yvonne-ayoub.jpg

2   http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_500/1272843204fSmmPM.jpg

3   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_Houses_02.jpg

4   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florence_Door.jpg

5   http://www.flickr.com/photos/28540127@N05/3924957875/

6   http://technicalecstasy.org/italy.html

7   http://architrixstudio.com/blog/front-door/

8&9 http://www.housenumbers.ca/46.html

10  http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-61636321/stock-photo-rome-italy-old-door-italian-architecture-detail.html

11  http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-61636321/stock-photo-rome-italy-old-door-italian-architecture-detail.html

12  http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=florence+door&search_group=&orient=&search_cat=&searchtermx=&photographer_name=&people_gender=&people_age=&people_ethnicity=&people_number=&commercial_ok=&color=&show_color_wheel=1#id=95870044

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Robin Silcock

I am a Second Year Games Art and Design student at Norwich University of the Arts. After exploration of a number of roles in my first year, I am now looking to graduate as a 3D Artist with applicable skills in Maya, Mudbox, ZBrush and Photoshop. I understand that my skills in this field are not there yet - but I aim to achieve this goal through consistently working through the programs in my University and Personal Projects. I love to be busy - I have always had a lot of things on my plate since the age of 7 where I successfully balanced school with Ballet, Tap, Horse-Riding, French, Piano and Singing Lessons! In the same fashion, my university schedule is just as hectic and varied; I am a Peer Mentor to first year students, Student Rep for Second Year, and President of the Enterprise Society. Like I said, I love to be busy! I am a Games Hippie - so to speak - I believe that Games if designed and harnessed in the right way, will be able to help solve many of the global issues we have today - even if it starts off in a small way. Just look at the positive effects that Facebook and Twitter have already had... When navigating my blog;
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