The Art Factory [BLDG 0014] : 3D Modeling a Warehouse of Arts and Culture

BLOCKTOWN is a community art project powered through your comments and engagement. It’s an experimental game of city-making, a digital Madurodam. With each post, a new layer of buildings will be added to the Town. Your photographs, quotes, stories and feedback are the raw materials that drive construction for each new layer.

A New Character!

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Thanks to @heymattsokol for the Art Factory! This building in BLOCKTOWN was an abandoned industrial warehouse seeking a new home town. Don't let the modest blue exterior fool you, there's a lot of color brewing inside. These blocks are bubbling with art, culture and music. Stay tuned for a rendered peek indoors...

Take a look at the design process (below) assembling and modeling the blocky structure, beginning with the 2D image submission and growing the 3D modeled character.

How to Play

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Take a look at the announcement post, here. Each building and landscape element of BLOCKTOWN will be derived directly from your comments. Photographs, quotes and stories will inspire their own design logic and manifest themselves as 3D characters within the Town.

If you'd like to participate beyond image comments, download the Rhino template file I've prepared on Github and assemble a custom building of your own. Once you re-upload it, I'll add it in. Update - I'll be sharing more 3D files in the next post that should work on Sketchup / Max / Blender etc.

> Github 3D File Download. Click here! <

An Experiment in Building Community

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^{Through this project - I hope to engage in a broader dialogue with fellow Steemians about their own sense of place and placemaking. These types of game-structured conversations are a fascinating way of learning more about what a person defines as his or her “community.” It’s a way of connecting to one another through the geographies we are deeply tied to and knowledgeable of. In a world of links, likes, upvotes and IP addresses, it’s exciting to find ways of bridging the digital divide and connecting with those on the other side of the screen.}

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Let's get building!

- Take a look at the announcement post, here. -

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