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Welcome to the first BTS of a Scafall home! While this doesn’t give away the whole technical process, to follow is the unpolished highlight reel of all the moments where House Zora locked in her shape.
The initial concept came through like water. So I was very adamant about getting the details right, and the first detail was the roof type. I had no idea at this point and had to try a few things.
I knew it wanted to be a sleek house, so I wanted to counter balance it with some movement. Wasn’t sure at this point, so I had to draft it in. Things very quickly changed after I defined the second most important area: the foyer.
After countless iterations of stair-turning and splitting, it became clear that a wall-framed door was not the right fit for this house. Thus came the first corner window.
With the new glazing language for the foyer, I very quickly realised I wanted to echo this through the whole house. And so this dictated the necessity for light, elegant roofing. And thus became her facade!
Here is the first time she had her silhouette, but at this point I wasn’t loving the foyer anymore (looks like some boutique store front not a house?) and was rather thanking it for the echoing glass corners of the main house. So – it was time to redesign her again! After several more iterations I realised the “arrival” I wanted to achieve into the main home would be better off as an ascent within the house itself.
Much better!
And a million manual loop cuts to really honour those fluted corners. Now to the courtyard and pool, the third most important area of the home ….
At this point the pool really needed to breathe.
Better!
When building the glass skybridge, I wanted it to float above nature, so it seemed like the courtyard needed a green strip so you can have foliage on both sides!
Better! Thus sparked the modern lines of the courtyard which extends to the dipping pool.
At this point she was complete in all her ways, and it was down to making sure she had the right doors, and textures that would provide the right amount of accent without distracting from the design. I’ll let you discover that in-world!
And the final touch in world, back where we started, but this time to make her sing the right note.
Better. ♥
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