Quito Ecuador Temple

Rough draft for Quito Ecuador Temple

Yesterday, the Church released the renders for the Quito Ecuador and the Lima Peru Los Olivos Temples. I have been busy since noticing them last night, and today I have finished a rough draft for the Quito Ecuador Temple model.

From what I have been able to tell so far, this temple appears to be based on he same floorplan as Trujillo Peru. At least, the windows all appear to be in about the same place.

I won’t be able to get much farther than this, so for the time being I will fill out the grounds, add local terrain, and texture the model before rendering a 1st draft.

Guayaquil Ecuador Temple

Guayaquil Ecuador Temple video now online!

Guayaquil Ecuador Temple temple video is finished and online. I probably should have mentioned that I managed to save up enough funds for a little bit of faster hardware. The ten year difference in time between now and when I last upgraded means that what used to take 15-18 minutes per frame to render now takes 1-2 minutes per frame. As such, I can now render a video faster than I can finish modeling a video! So I am pushing forward, most of my models are within 2 days work of finished, and I am hoping that I can get through a significant chunk of them this summer. For today, here is Guayaquil. Reference material was hared to find all around, but I think I have done a fairly decent job of representation.

Guayaquil Ecuador

Click Below to go to my page with temple facts and more information

Guayaquil Ecuador Temple mostly done

Guayaquil Ecuador Temple is done… for the day. Not so much when it comes to moving on to the render.  I have completed most of the model, I need some texture tweaks, I also have a significant amount of progress on the grounds. The inscription to be added, and the windows to finish. then there is much work remaining on the grounds before I can move on to trees.

I struggle with this one. It’s exhausting, probably because I spend a lot of time looking for reference material. I get distracted looking for good photos and usually end up finding stuff for other temples instead. Which is not a bad thing, but not great when you already get easily distracted!

Development Images

Monday at Guayaquil Ecuador

Happy leap-day, I guess. And Happy Birthday to those of you now turning 1/4 of your actual age. Today I worked on size. I actually counted out the stones on the side of the temple and fixed my model accordingly, at least for the base. The spire still needs to be done, but the height and width should now match better than they did before. I started in on the basic window shapes as well.

Tuesday at Guayaquil Ecuador

I had some tweaking to do here today. The spire was to short and may still be. Also, I think I have some of my details to big. When you oversize the detailing, the end result is everything looks a little Fisher Price. Typically, you can do small fine details on large objects, not small ones. Inversely, for toys, details often have to be a little over sized to prevent them from breaking during production or play. So when you make the details to big in relation to the rest of the structure, it starts to look like a child’s plaything.

That aside, I got caught up in trying some new ideas for texturing instead of actually working on the model. There will be much to do when I get back around to this one. The previous render is here:

The new render is here: