radman573's Advance Builder Application :D

[radman573]

Username: radman573

Approximately Amount of time spent on the server: I would say 3-4 hours on average, depending or not if I am working on something, it could be 12-20 hours if I am working on a map or project. I do not know how long in total, but it is definitely over 48 hours.


References (Adv+): I do not have any references.


Screenshots of creations (along with warps to the creations):
These are all the things that I have built on Buildbox that I have pictures of....

http://imgur.com/UVpfU,zGDKg,iJAGT,...n,XaOTc,rVkZB,I4wvv,t5QG6,ilwYU,s7cgI,p6Nj6#0

The first set of pictures can be seen in my plot. The desert looking ones are on AoD, they were in my cube before though. The other two things can be found using /mvtp terrain

Signed: radman573

Sorry for the messed up formatting

 

[Numberplay]

-1 Your builds looks too random. It looks dense and compact at the same time and we can see too many traces of worldedit that could be masked.

It looks like if you started a build and 10 minutes later did another build next to it on another completely different theme. You need to keep a single theme in a map and not making look like you have 10 themes unless the transitions make sense.

In the case of your floating map, The chunks of islands aren't realistic. It's as if you were too lazy to add blocks under the lands to make them look like they are rising or eroding. Don't hesitate to make them look like a giant stalagtite instead of thousands of small ones on the same level.

 

[Marlem]

-1
Numberplay summed it up perfectly.

 

[Zelz]

Alright, you're a nice guy, and this is nothing personal. However, I am going with a -1.
Your builds are at the standard that I'd expect from the average Builder.
For example, this build:

The roof on it isn't exactly "blended". It's more of a sudden pyramid-like roof. Maybe have it more circular, and softer to the eye.
The underneath of the build is rather bland. *Goes to grab Number's tutorial. On the way, notices Number has already replied before her. Asdfghjkl;'#* Number's tutorial is epic for this stuff. Thanks to it, I no longer fail at floating islands. OH LOOK SO DID MARLEM. ASDFASFDSFD.

If you wish, I could try and help you out ingame. For now, I'm sticking with a -1 though.

 

[radman573]

Thank you so much for the fast responses :D

I'll read up on that tutorial and try to mask those worldedit things, thanks again :D

 

[Marlem]

OH LOOK SO DID MARLEM. ASDFASFDSFD.

I never did fail at making floating islands.

 

[Zelz]

I never did fail at making floating islands.

I meant you posted before me. :c

 

[radman573]

Ok, I did something and I would like to know if it is a step in the right direction:

http://imgur.com/Z32PR,bevDR,8WuuK,wXLrE#0

Also, the main center area has a very ugly 2-3 block vertical face all around it (circled on last picture), but I don't know how to make it look natural D:

 

[Zelz]

That looks better.
Maybe head for more blocks towards the middle.
For example:

From my own build, done using Number's tutorial.

 

[radman573]

http://imgur.com/Blj7e,7sOUD,2VqpL,sfjzt,ylcKd,V1srk,HCuYW,aVs7G#0

I have been working on removing the areas you can easily tell that are worldedit for the past 3 hours and I put in a lot more detail to the map, including the much larger stalagtites all throughout the map. I thank you again for your advice :D

 

[Zelz]

That definitely looks better.
You may want to avoid square, or simple 4 walled builds. They tend to be rather plain no matter how decorated.
The underneath of the islands could use some stone. Also, try and use stairs and half slabs quite often for detail.

But, yeah. You're definitely heading in the right direction.

 

[Prizyms]

Pretty much what Numberplay said. I won't bore you to death by making you read another wall of text telling you the same things that have already been said. My advice: stick to one theme per build because if you focus your efforts into one theme it will probably look better. Keep at it!

-1

 

[EggNog]

Your builds are not adv. quality yet so I'm going with a -1, but with a little work I'm sure you'll get there. Keep up the work!

 

[radman573]

Thank you so much for all the great advice :D

You can close and deny this, and I will try again in the future. I have really started to like the run down/abandoned look to builds so I will primarily focus on that :D

Thanks again!