China. A place with a lot of buildings.

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Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:43 pm

Due to the distinct lack of chinese/asian buildings available I am starting out on creating my own. I have designed a few things in the past in card but am new to this program. I'm hoping it's what I need to speed me along. I have spent some time thinking through what sorts of buildings I want to design and gathered some references. I will probably mainkly use 'real' roofing rather than printed to represent the tiled roofs as this is one area that I feel makes card buildings feel flat.

If anyone has any good sources of textures or photos for inspiration suitable for oriental buildings then I would appreciate any input.

Living in the depths of Devon in England I don't have a nearby 'china town' for inspiration!
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Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:36 am

Re: roofing, if you make a few cuts with your exacto and lift up every few tiles or so, you would be surprised how textured a paper roof can get! have a look at this article (yes it uses wood shingle not tile but the idea can be applied I think):
http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/mbarticle.html scroll down for the bit about roofing.

I googled ancient chinese buildings and found a lot were made from stucco and large or small stone, there is some of that in the software.
I tried ancient chinese huts and found they were bamboo and reed kind of things.
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some of the images in this blog might be useable for importing
http://awayofseeingarchitecture.blogspo ... ction.html
good luck
Evan Designs
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