Hello, I am working on a project in Blender to learn new things and practice sculpting. I thought it was time to try a bigger scene from one of my favourite artists, John Bauer. His art is in the public domain so there are no copyright issues to worry about.
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Only thing I have to be careful of is the size of the scene because I’m working on my dads Optiplex 3000 computer at the moment with no dedicated GPU but touchwood it is going OK.
I think I’m reaching the limits of my dads computer with this but I’ve detailed some more trolls today. Rendering in Eevee takes ages so I’ve done a screenshot. I might make the scene into a bas relief eventually to save on rendering time and for easier texturing.
It’s so nice to follow your great progress! I hope you find a workaround for the hardware issues!
i recently started exploring sculpting myself, and must say, your progress is truly impressive! Great job!
Thank you very much, I feel like I’m learning a lot with this project.
Thank you, I have used an add on called Quad Remesher to help me get a lot of the objects down in size today which has helped a bit.
Wow, that is so cool! It’s great to see non-typical styles. Excellent work.
WOW, this is already looking so cool! Bookmarked to watch your progress 
Hello I had a bit of a break from this as my dad had to use the computer but I can work on it in the mornings and evenings.
Very nice! John Bauer is a favourite of mine as well, he really captures the vibe of the deep Swedish forests in such a lovely way 
I’ve actually made a similar project to yours, I did his drawing of Tuvstar using Maya and Houdini some years a go, rendered it on a potato computer as well and turned out quite fine! So I think you can manage quite well as well, it’s looking great so far! Looking forward to your end results ^^
Thank you very much. Your art is really lovely, I love the mushroom house and troll you did especially.
Had a bit of a stressful week and I wish I had had more of a chance to work on this but I’ve started blocking out the princess at last.
Wow. This is so good. I love John Bauer 
Just finding this now and I must say I love your progress! I know about using older computers as well - it took me a year to save up for the one I have now and even now I find I must upgrade the SSD if I want to dive into more coding study.
Beautiful work!
Hello again, I wanted to show what I’ve done so far for the princess. I have to work on the rocks next. I have a feeling that may take a while but I’m glad to have gotten to this
I’ve added some rocks and I used A.N.T Landscape addon to generate a bit of noise for the floor as well. I noticed I still have lots of bead necklaces to add to the trolls so I can’t call this done yet and I will probabbly have to save texturing it until I get back to my usual computer because my Dads computer is a bit laggy with the whole scene loaded now. Thanks for reading!
(I also want to add some dust mote animation at some point when I’m back with my slightly more powerful computer)
This is wonderful already and I’m looking forward to seeing the textured results. In one of your posts you refered to a “monkey local symmetry trick”. Could you elaborate?
Yes- I put together a video for you here:
It was something I learned from watching an older CG Cookie video I found (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XcRu9tV68)
