Tower inspired by Zdzisław Beksiński art

Artwork Works in Progress
#1

Hello:

In this project I want to recreate a scene similar of one created by the amazing Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński.

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The terrain was made with basic Ant Landscape, and the stones as a particle field, following a known pebbles tutorial.

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I imagine the scene in the afternoon.
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Now I need to learn how to create trees.

I will appreciate any comment.

#2

I modeled the main trunk using a bezier curve like the one used by the sapling addon. Tomorrow I will figure out how to use that script to populate this trunk with branches and twigs.

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By the way, the texture used for the tower’s exterior is made with gimp (both color and bump) and a gimp script to generate brick walls.

Any crit?

#3

I would suggest many bundles of 3d curves using the Full fill setting, bevel at 0.05 at least - then you can use alt-s to fatten nodes and shrink them down to get the spindle look. I would use many of them overlaying that main trunk, and many more seeming to extrude from it as well.