Playing around with some paper textures of a basic building still a lot of work needed before it looks realistic....
I like how the texture on the roof turned out on this building i changed the uv's so that it look like it had been folded into place, AAlthough it is a very basic build it would suite our paper theme well. I could improve this by changeing the texture on the walls to a more realistic paper texture and possibly add a bump map to give it more of a 3d feel. Although the building looks 3d the walls look flat and if they were to represent being built from crumpled paper they would need to look rougher, i think adding these textures would acheve this without having to alter the actual faces of the building.

Paper cities

NETS.. I like the idea of creating our buildings from a net to give a realistic look of a paper built house. Im not sure how this will work so i will have to have a go and see how it turns out. i think it could look good with ill fitting geometry giving a realistic effect.

Origami is a major aspect in building models from paper, it makes so many interesting shapes and patterns would look awesome being animated?? i will try and create some buildings featuring geometry looking like this. 

Although not CGI this image shows some amazing lighting which could be applied in a cg enviroment. The lighting gives a calm neutral effect on the image 

I really like this image i think the lighting plays a big part in making it look aesthetically pleasing. Ignoring the car in the mid ground the buildings are fairly simple applied with a nice realistic paper texture. i will be happy if our city looks as nice as this although it will take a different style.

As our project has taken a different theme (Paper cities) i have done some research into existing paper themed buildings.... i will be designing some of the building to be featured in our enviroment. i like this theme because it will allow every ones work to all fit together well without too much guidance and stringency.

London paper adverthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQYdGI_d2Q&feature=related

some initeresting images of lights at fair grounds

Initial Building designs

One of my roles in the project i have been allocated is to design and model some buildings for our secene. These are a few of my inital sketches of mainly abstract and simplistic building designs. as we are still not 100% decided on out theme i cannot really go into too much depth.

Here are a few images featuring cgi enviroments i found interesting.... i started off researching enviroments in general and then decided to look more into moden/futureistic building's.