Work in Progress

I would just like to begging by explaining a little bit the idea behind this building. I read a series of books called Red Mars in which a mission is sent to Mars to colonise the planet. I won’t go into specifics but there is a period of time where they live in tent cities that protect the people from the atmosphere outside. I wanted to create my vision of how one of these buildings would look like. I tried to make the building look modern but at same time alien in some way.

I began by pretty much modeling a group of building inside a tent.  

The reason why is because I wanted to get an idea of scale of the tent in relation with the buildings.

I then lined up the block outs of the buildings to look at what shapes and silhouettes I liked the most in each one.

I also detailed some of them to if I could get any further or not.

I ended up deciding to use the one on the far right

After doing some details I realized that I liked the way the building looked but the width and length where not enough

I decided to expand the width and length. I then continued adding details to the model and ended up with this render, which is just a simple mental ray render with a Maya sun and sky light.

I will now start working on the materials and textures for the building.