Monday 21 March 2011

Research - egyptian architecture

for this doorway project i have decided to go with an Egyptian style doorway as it's unlikely anyone else will do something similar, and i also get to really go crazy with the modelling, from what i can see Egyptian architecture is very sophisticated, relying heavily on the same kind of stone and indentations throughout all of the structures, all the doorways i have found so far in this style have all been very narrow and very straight, if there is a floor it's either plain sand or tan gravel.


i have been browsing around some sites to try and find iconic Egyptian structures that are usually present where there are doorways, so far the one that keeps popping up is Egyptian pillars, usually right outside of a large doorway of even small wooden ones, mainly symmetrical as there is rarely just 1 on 1 side and not the other, i will keep this in mind when making my doorway concept.






Here is a real Egyptian door, the hieroglyphics make it look wonderful, and also the general pattern is very nice, i would love to use this as a major reference for the patterns on the door of my model.

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