Blender Master Class

Modeling the Details of the Jungle Temple

The Jungle Temple scene was already blocked in, so next it needed to be refined to make it more final. This process required me to think about the shapes I wanted to create and to model more complex meshes with the shapes I wanted in the final renders.

Walls

For the main walls of the Jungle Temple, I first laid out cubes to form the stone blocks of the wall (see Figure 5-8). Beginning with the bottom row, I added each one by hand and modified its length to give some variation. Next, I built up the higher layers by duplicating and scaling the cubes. To add further variety, I selected blocks at random, moved them in or out from the wall a bit, and rotated them slightly to make the surface of the wall ...