The Art Factory [BLDG 0014] : 3D Modeling a Warehouse of Arts and Culture
BLOCKTOWN is a community art project powered through your comments and engagement. It’s an experimental game of city-making, a digital Madurodam. With each post, a new layer of buildings will be added to the Town. Your photographs, quotes, stories and feedback are the raw materials that drive construction for each new layer.
A New Character!
Thanks to @heymattsokol for the Art Factory! This building in BLOCKTOWN was an abandoned industrial warehouse seeking a new home town. Don't let the modest blue exterior fool you, there's a lot of color brewing inside. These blocks are bubbling with art, culture and music. Stay tuned for a rendered peek indoors...
Take a look at the design process (below) assembling and modeling the blocky structure, beginning with the 2D image submission and growing the 3D modeled character.
How to Play
Take a look at the announcement post, here. Each building and landscape element of BLOCKTOWN will be derived directly from your comments. Photographs, quotes and stories will inspire their own design logic and manifest themselves as 3D characters within the Town.
If you'd like to participate beyond image comments, download the Rhino template file I've prepared on Github and assemble a custom building of your own. Once you re-upload it, I'll add it in. Update - I'll be sharing more 3D files in the next post that should work on Sketchup / Max / Blender etc.
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An Experiment in Building Community
Through this project - I hope to engage in a broader dialogue with fellow Steemians about their own sense of place and placemaking. These types of game-structured conversations are a fascinating way of learning more about what a person defines as his or her “community.” It’s a way of connecting to one another through the geographies we are deeply tied to and knowledgeable of. In a world of links, likes, upvotes and IP addresses, it’s exciting to find ways of bridging the digital divide and connecting with those on the other side of the screen.
Let's get building!
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Awesome!!! At long last we can get the art scene in blocktown moving. And right now we have a monopoly on the local culture - so nothing but Drum n Bass and Math Rock for the foreseeable future :-D
Great job @voronoi the building looks great!!
Thanks for the idea Matt! Finally the art scene is beginning to come together. And you've got some nice real estate there :D
It is about making you think from a different perspective..
It is about writing without any expectations of UPVOTES..
Excellent post good analyses thanks for sharing.
@resteemed
Nice post..
I like you post. Upvotes
This is an awesome initiative !
So, just post a photo of a building/inspiration then ? maybe a bit of story ?
hmmm....
What about an Earth Ship for the town ?
The basic idea for blocktown would be something where you can see "tires" or other recycled building materials kind of sticking out. There's an infinite variation, but they all tend to have big front windows and roundish forms like the digital render below.
sir Such a wonderful and thankful work... Actually....I'm always respect to your works
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That's a great creativity ..Thanks a lot for sharing about your own activity..Thanks for sharing..
good creativity that is
thanks for sharing in this community
carry on
Beautiful pos, i like...
so good!!!!