TristanBomb's MiniBuilds

[TristanLuigi]

After 3 years of playing, I've begun to get sick of being so stuff at building. I decided to get my act together and start practicing to make better builds, and I'm going to post the results here for criticism. X/10 ratings are fine, as long as you give a reason. I know my stuff sucks, I just need to know why!

Tree and Fountain:


The fountain was fairly easy and is not what I'm concerned about, though criticism is still welcome. I wanted to know how good the tree is; I'm not really sure where I was going with it, I just built with 4x cubes and hoped it looked good and came back with 2x2x2's and 2x2 corners to fill the gaps. I'm not happy with it, but I decided to post it anyway.

More to come!

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[gr8dayseth]

I like how you make the cubes the leaves.
10/10

[TristanLuigi]

I like how you make the cubes the leaves.
10/10

It wasn't intended, but it ended up looking like this:

[LeetZero]

It wasn't intended, but it ended up looking like this:

Well there's place for interpretation, but I doubt that's it.

I always thought cube for leaves would be a good ideas for trees. They would be simple enough and fit the Bloko team really well. A ton better than round leaves even.

[TristanLuigi]

Well there's place for interpretation, but I doubt that's it.

I always thought cube for leaves would be a good ideas for trees. They would be simple enough and fit the Bloko team really well. A ton better than round leaves even.

I agree, but it would probably look a lot better if someone more skilled were to try it. I sorta placed them randomly, and then it looked jumbled in the end. I'm sure if you plan it out more first, it will look better.

[LeetZero]

I agree, but it would probably look a lot better if someone more skilled were to try it. I sorta placed them randomly, and then it looked jumbled in the end. I'm sure if you plan it out more first, it will look better.

I don't think there's that much planning to do. When speaking about trees, each tree even of the same kind has it's own grandiosity. As well as humans, they are the same kind but individuals. I think random is the way to go when constructing a tree as long as you got a base premise for it. Your premise is a trunk and cubes. Good enough. It looks like a tree? Even better. Not much room to improve there.

[sir dooble]

I can't really criticise the tree for it's leaves, since that really has become it's style, which works.

I could only really criticise it if it clashed with another build you put it in.

The only thing I'm not kind of keen on is that floating 1x2 branch on it. If that's what it is supposed to be.
I can understand that it should be a branch, but it just doesn't quite look like it is (which is a common problem in Blockland, where it's difficult to get detail in small scale).

The fountain is nice and sweet.
Which is good, because it's very easy to go overboard with fountains, and try and make them too fancy.
And of course again, it's difficult to get fancy details in when it's small. Before you know it you've made a 32x32 fountain, and it still doesn't look as detailed as a real life one.

[LeetZero]

The only thing I'm not kind of keen on is that floating 1x2 branch on it. If that's what it is supposed to be.
I can understand that it should be a branch, but it just doesn't quite look like it is (which is a common problem in Blockland, where it's difficult to get detail in small scale).

Regarding that, maybe it would be more advisable to use a inverted ramp instead? Could look better.

[TristanLuigi]

Regarding that, maybe it would be more advisable to use a inverted ramp instead? Could look better.

Good idea! It looks way better. It was originally supposed be a knot-like thing.