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Accepted Artist Application lolbroek108.

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Hey lolbroek and thanks for your application and the many updates! Also to you I am very sorry for the long wait time!

You may have heard of the saying that it's the first impression of someone that counts. With you, when I opened your first picture of the prancing pony I was like "wow, that build is looking nice!"


Some small things that fell into my eyes when I checked out your builds ingame:

Prancing pony:
  • I would recommend making the ground floor out of a stony material. I haven't verified really whether wooden floor on base level were a thing in medieval houses, but on MCME I think pretty much all buildings follow this principle.
  • Very good job on the interior, @superlolster360 check this one out ;)
  • There's some thatch visible from inside the prancing pony, try to cover that if somehow possible, same goes for the shingles in your DA house. Both thatch and shingles are only the top layer of the roof, below is always a support structure out of wood; floating shingles is technically not doable, they need to be laid onto something. Shingles are used to ward off the water as shingles are impervious to water, which wood is not. Shingles in return can't hold off the cold temperatures.
  • Where you used glass blocks for the windows I would rather suggest window panes instead of blocks.
  • Nice job on the surroundings, the first impression is a lot better if the plot is actually filled!
Rhosgobel:
  • First impression very nice here as well, nice job on the vegetation!
  • The base / root part of your trees feels tendencially a bit too fat. Nice that you used the slabs there though!
  • When I added the custom heads for the apiaries I couldn't think of a place where they'd fit nicely... In your build they do!
  • As I already wrote in some other feedback, making that house look crooked is incredibly tricky. You totally nailed it with those irregular stone walls...They're just purrfect :D
  • Rest of the houses' exterior looks very nice as well, also the tree is nicely embedded.
  • Interior is very sweet as well, altho a little more chaotic and crammed would be possible i think.
  • Cover the thatch in the upper floor! I know it takes away a lot of space, but it really is a no-go...
Minas Tirith:
  • Nice try to fit both the pinnacle and the citadel into the plot^^ But as you may have noticed, the buildings turned out a bit very small... But awesome how much effort you put into building the pinnacle and the stone base!
  • On this scale it's a bit hard to judge, but you tend a bit to overdetailing the exterior here. Sometimes less details look better, if there's too many small details and no larger structure it looks kinda chaotic and confusing. Especially in larger builds some bits of very bland blank faces can look very nice. So take that with you: More details does not always mean a better look. Except on the interior maybe ;)
  • Such jagged roof beaks are a bit unusual if done with shingles. If you use bricks it's more feasible, but in the sense of overdetailing, a straight bland beak is usually the best option.
DA houses:
  • You've really got a very good sense for nice interiors! Especially how you use the custom heads is very nice! Keep that up and animate other builders to use the heads as well so that they become a solid part of MCME's builds!


Alritght, I don't need to think about this very long, this is a clear and load YES to you as an Artist! Very nice builds, and I cannot wait to see what other nice builds you'll delight us all in the future! Congratulations to Artist!

I'll make sure you get promoted as quickly as possible, it's still a bit tricky ;)
Please check out the Artist manual in the meantime: Artist Manual
 
Finrod_Amandil said:
I would recommend making the ground floor out of a stony material. I haven't verified really whether wooden floor on base level were a thing in medieval houses, but on MCME I think pretty much all buildings follow this principle.
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Actually, in medieval times (not necessarily Middle-Earth times but it's the best we have to compare to) the bottom floor of a building built directly on the ground would usually only have packed dirt for a ground floor. Hay, thatch, hides/carpets or occasionally wooden planks were sometimes used to cover the floor to make it nicer to walk on. I don't actually know to what extent stone floors were used but I think it weren't too common considering that stone floors gets very cold and would be either really uneven like cobblestone or uite expensive if it was cut stone bricks or slabs. Then again DA and other places in Middle-Earth uses Roman levels of technology and the romans most definitely used stone flooring, heck they even used heated stone flooring according to some sources.
 
Finrod_Amandil said:
Hey lolbroek and thanks for your application and the many updates! Also to you I am very sorry for the long wait time!

You may have heard of the saying that it's the first impression of someone that counts. With you, when I opened your first picture of the prancing pony I was like "wow, that build is looking nice!"


Some small things that fell into my eyes when I checked out your builds ingame:

Prancing pony:
  • I would recommend making the ground floor out of a stony material. I haven't verified really whether wooden floor on base level were a thing in medieval houses, but on MCME I think pretty much all buildings follow this principle.
  • Very good job on the interior, @superlolster360 check this one out ;)
  • There's some thatch visible from inside the prancing pony, try to cover that if somehow possible, same goes for the shingles in your DA house. Both thatch and shingles are only the top layer of the roof, below is always a support structure out of wood; floating shingles is technically not doable, they need to be laid onto something. Shingles are used to ward off the water as shingles are impervious to water, which wood is not. Shingles in return can't hold off the cold temperatures.
  • Where you used glass blocks for the windows I would rather suggest window panes instead of blocks.
  • Nice job on the surroundings, the first impression is a lot better if the plot is actually filled!
Rhosgobel:
  • First impression very nice here as well, nice job on the vegetation!
  • The base / root part of your trees feels tendencially a bit too fat. Nice that you used the slabs there though!
  • When I added the custom heads for the apiaries I couldn't think of a place where they'd fit nicely... In your build they do!
  • As I already wrote in some other feedback, making that house look crooked is incredibly tricky. You totally nailed it with those irregular stone walls...They're just purrfect :D
  • Rest of the houses' exterior looks very nice as well, also the tree is nicely embedded.
  • Interior is very sweet as well, altho a little more chaotic and crammed would be possible i think.
  • Cover the thatch in the upper floor! I know it takes away a lot of space, but it really is a no-go...
Minas Tirith:
  • Nice try to fit both the pinnacle and the citadel into the plot^^ But as you may have noticed, the buildings turned out a bit very small... But awesome how much effort you put into building the pinnacle and the stone base!
  • On this scale it's a bit hard to judge, but you tend a bit to overdetailing the exterior here. Sometimes less details look better, if there's too many small details and no larger structure it looks kinda chaotic and confusing. Especially in larger builds some bits of very bland blank faces can look very nice. So take that with you: More details does not always mean a better look. Except on the interior maybe ;)
  • Such jagged roof beaks are a bit unusual if done with shingles. If you use bricks it's more feasible, but in the sense of overdetailing, a straight bland beak is usually the best option.
DA houses:
  • You've really got a very good sense for nice interiors! Especially how you use the custom heads is very nice! Keep that up and animate other builders to use the heads as well so that they become a solid part of MCME's builds!


Alritght, I don't need to think about this very long, this is a clear and load YES to you as an Artist! Very nice builds, and I cannot wait to see what other nice builds you'll delight us all in the future! Congratulations to Artist!

I'll make sure you get promoted as quickly as possible, it's still a bit tricky ;)
Please check out the Artist manual in the meantime: Artist Manual
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Haha thank you @Finrod_Amandil i sure will check out his prancing pony. I have changed it already as you suggested
 
superlolster360 said:
Yh I always used to play the mini games on other servers I never actually built a proper world or anything that was decent XD
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Well, if you can build like that from merely looking at our world I'd say you'd just have to keep looking and you WILL get Artist because if you can learn that much from just looking and some critique I think you might be a hidden gem of a prodigy at this.
 
ryttyr said:
Well, if you can build like that from merely looking at our world I'd say you'd just have to keep looking and you WILL get Artist because if you can learn that much from just looking and some critique I think you might be a hidden gem of a prodigy at this.
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Yeah, I know you that you can super, you're a fast learner!
 
ryttyr said:
Well, if you can build like that from merely looking at our world I'd say you'd just have to keep looking and you WILL get Artist because if you can learn that much from just looking and some critique I think you might be a hidden gem of a prodigy at this.
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ooh fancy word prodigy. i don't think I'm one of those tbh but thats rytt and u too lolbroek XD
 
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