LETI'S RHINO CASTLE

This week for my first assignment in OBDF 210, I made a 3d Castle in Rhino.

OH BOY, this project was such an informative review of what I learned in OBDF 110. I took inspiration from European castles and the school Hogwarts from Harry Potter. I had so many ideas in my head and I needed to start with sketches first to organize my thoughts.

I decided at the beginning I wanted to have a simple style archway which lead me to repeat that design in many aspects of the castle's windows, doors and other features.

Then I started to work on the blueprint of the Castle.

I decided that building the towers would be a good start because it was one of the trickier design elements that I wanted to create in the castle.

I found this part to be very tricky just because Booleanunite was not working in my favor. I also had “snap to pixels” selected, which was useful when building the blueprints but caused a lot of problems when trying to combine shapes. After a couple of frustrating minutes, I remembered that sometimes boolean union doesn't work then you have to just move the object slightly to united.

And then I moved on to adding more details into individual towers like balconies windows doors and decorative sculptures

Balconies

I placed the towers onto my blueprint to get a rough idea of what the castle was going to look like.

I moved on to building the main body of the building.

I hid all the towers to help declutter while building this part.

I started using shapes to cut out doors, windows and other details on the main body of the building using Boolean Difference.

There is a lot of trial and error in this project. Once I got over that hump and pulled out my notebook and played around with a lot of the actions I started to get very comfortable with Rhino again. I am happy with the results of the details in the castle. I used the boolean difference tool a lot when making these details.

In the end, it looks like a mini Harry Potter castle.

The Courtyard

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