"The Witch's Cottage" 3D Model

Brief

Create a witch-themed 3D environment.

Solution

The little witch lives in the forest, as she’s independent and on her own. She can often be found tinkering with new spells in her treehouse. When she’s not working on spells, she creates beautiful lanterns to light her clearing, which she keeps lit with amazing colors conjured by her powers.

Process

I often find that when I begin modeling, the world I am creating naturally evolves. I began to model the cottage itself, specifically starting with the stones that border the cottage. By the time I’d finished the cottage, the trees and treehouse were already begging to be created, so I naturally moved to those next.

Each element organically found its way into the scene as the project evolved, until the story was clear and the scene was complete. This project was a loose personal project, so I ran with the exploratory nature rather than planning the whole project out beforehand.