Further down the line in the construction of our city, I was tasked in to create some houses that will be located on the river side. I had a lot more freedom in this task that I originally thought I would, I still used tradition Venice houses to inspire my designs, but I also took this opportunity to look at current modern houses. After researching both the architecture of the modern houses and the architecture of the current houses in Venice, I took it upon myself to try merge the two and surprisingly it worked. The house had a fres, new and slick design, but still with holding the architecture of a Venice house. I really liked the way in which this turned out. I believe ther I some changes I could make that would make a change for the better, maybe the color and some reflection on the windows. However I will have to see how the design looks when placed in the island first. Heres a look at the current version:

This was a task that I was recently assigned on, I was tasked to create a café, however I was told that the café will not be placed on the river side like most of the cafes in Venice, I looked at some designs that were placed in the center at venice however non suited the current designs we had already made. I believed getting the design spec right. In the end I decided to create my own fresh design based of the designs that we had already created. I really enjoyed the freedom of this design and I believed it came out very well. This was also the only design that contained a texture, that being the floor. This café will be placed near the clock tower near the center of our city so I thought it had to be small, as the center would be very crowded with buildings. I would say the most difficult part of this design was actually the tables and they required me to be very accurate and it also used a lot of booles (a tool in Cinema 4D) and these can be a struggle to control, however, again I'm very happy the way in which this design came out and I cant wait to see how it looks in the final model.

One of my major responsibilities in this brief was to create the famous clock tower that Is placed in the city centre, originally I was very nervous about creating this colossal object however thanks to the reinsurance and support of my team I was able to create the tower with minimal problems. I didn't want the tower simply be a replica of the original tower so I took this chance to add some of my own design features. Two of the main features can be seen in the images that I have provided. I added new columns to the side of the tower to give the design and more ancient feel. Additionally I added a bell in the opening at the top of the clock tower, again I wanted the building to hold an old feel, I didn't want to just place a speaker at the side of the building as I thought that would take away the atmosphere of the structure. Finally I would also like to mention that I created my own colour scheme to suit the rest of the structures that we have already created. Ill end this post with the finished design of the enormous Venice clock tower:

For my final show project, me and my group had thrown many ideas around and eventually came to the conclusion that we had to create something that was fresh and had not been done before for the final show. This allowed us to think more outside the box and after a day of creative specs and ideas, we all came to back to one thing. Virtual reality, since we began college, we have always wanted to do virtual reality however it was out of our skill reach, until now. we all liked the idea of having a fly through of a beautiful city that the participant would be able look around as the camera was moving around for them. We all decided to go with Venice, this was because after we researched and evaluated other cities it was easy to tell that they simply weren't enjoyable to look at, or it had been done before. After through looking at what I can tell was at least 100 pictures of buildings, landscapes and overall structures, it was fair to say we had a good understanding of both the architecture and the art style that would have to be used to create the illusion of Venice. We decided to go for a low poly design. This is because is because I believed that many of the structures that we were going to build would look crisp and beautiful, however still retaining the overall architecture of Venice's structures. I created the water and the docks, and I believe that I got the water almost perfect as I created the water also using low poly, combining that with the reflection, transparency, and bump tools, it really gave the water a beautiful design, I also believe that I got the colours perfect, it makes it look tropical and vibrant with also a small sense of mythology. Ill end this entry with a mock-up that we had created in the early stages of development: