What is a Greek Pillar?
The Greek pillar was invented by the ancient Greeks who were wonderful architects. They invented three types of columns to support their buildings. There was the stylish Doric, the Ionic with its scrolls, and the fancy Corinthian. Each of the 3 pillars have there own unique appearance and have different details within them. These pillars are what I will take my inspiration from to create my own Greek pillar.
Mood Boards:
These mood boards above are of the three different types of Greek pillar; Doric, Ionic and Corinthian and there different parts, base, pillar and top. With the Doric Greek pillar I like the general structure as it is not too complicated but still gives of a clear idea that it is a Greek pillar. The Ionic is probably my favorite as it is similar to the Doric but with more detail on the base and the top, this is probably the one I would look to recrate and take ideas from. Finally the Corinthian is the most complex out of the three, and for this I will probably stay away from it but I will be taking detail from it to create my own and will be there for inspiration.
Material Mood Boards:
Above are some mood boards of a Greek pillars and the kind of material that they are made up off. From this I can see what kind of texture I will need to use and how rough the maps will have to be. From these images I can also tell that when modelling I will have to sculpt into the mesh to create the rough and worn down look that the Greek pillars have.
Final Two:
Below is the two types of Greek pillar from my mood boards that I will be using to move into the design phase with.
I have chose these pillars a I feel they are the ones that stand out to me from a modelling perspective and I think that they carry a good amount of detail that I can work from. I will be using the two pillars above to create a pillar design with can be made into a turn around to help me model and eventually texture. The reason I didn't chose the Corinthian pillar to work from is because I feel I wouldn't be able to make it as well as the other because of all the detail on the top.
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