With so many Civil War battles having their 150th anniversary this year, I thought I’d do some research on the subject and create a Civil War photo.
I would normally like to add more detail (like bolts/nails etc) to the cannon, but after looking at several reference photos, I really can’t find to much more to add to it. So overall, I think I’m ready to call this one done, however if anyone thinks it needs some tweaking here and there, feel free to let me know.
The only thing that I didn’t create is the background photo behind the tents (it came from CGtextures.com), but everything else (including the tents) I created in Blender.
The first photo is what I like better and will probably call it my finished one. However just for fun, I’ve added a little compositing onto it and thought I’d include that version as well.
I actually do have a bevel on the cross beam, but just a slight one. I’ll be sure to increase it some and work on adding a little more dirt on the metal.
The dirt on the wheels was actually just made out of edited Icospheres. I noticed on one of my reference photos (an old photograph with several Union Officers around a cannon) that the cannon had quite a bit of mud on it, so I thought I’d try to duplicate it a little. Thanks!
Yeah, a fort scene would be cool. A little off topic I guess, but I’m not very far away from Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield (near Springfield Mo). The Confederates in that battle camped only a few miles away from where I’m at (in fact, I often enjoy hiking on the very land they camped on), so that’s how I came up with the idea of making a Confederate camp. I also found out that several skirmishes that directly led up to the Battle of Wilsons creek was fought only a mile or two from me. So I’ve been very interested in the Civil War subject lately.
Anyway back on topic, thanks again for the tips!
EDIT: Here’s updated pictures with the changes mentioned above.
Looks good but some of the textures could use some work I think. The wood looks like particle board, I would reccomend using some wood textures from CgTextures.com but its up to you.
Nice work though.
I worked on the textures some more, and I think they look much better (I still might tweak them some more if I have the time, especially the spokes).
I haven’t had much time to work on it again until tonight, but I think it was good to take a break. When I came back to it, I was able to look it over more carefully and find places to add more detail to as well.
