Welcome to the new thread for The Minas Tirith Project!
[left]First of all, some people who are not new here might ask to themselves, why a new thread? Well, there are three reasons. First the old thread had reached over 400 replies, so to keep a good overview on things we decided to start a new thread. Secondly, we take this new thread as a chance to write down the goals, the way we organise things and current progress clearly for everyone. And last, but certainly not least, the new [website](http://www.minastirithproject.com) is finished and this is a good chance to make sure everyone cooperating on this project sees it.[/left]
[img]http://www.minastirith-project.com/thread%20cgtalk/Goal.jpg[/img]
[left]Our goal with this project is to model, texture and render the marvellous city from The Lord of the Rings, Minas Tirith. We will try to keep as close to the movies as possible and to put maximum detail in this city, so we will make highpoly models and highres textures. When everything is modelled, rendered and lit, well render a movie. There are no storyboards or other plans for that, but that will come in the future. We will also try to create a realtime viewer of the city. This seems crazy when you consider the polycount (millions of polygons), but in our team is a professional graphics programmer, Ysaneya, who is currently working on it and he says that it is possible![/left]
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[img]http://www.minastirith-project.com/thread%20cgtalk/Organisation.jpg[/img]
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The organisation of this project is quite simple: people can join us, model a building and send it to us.
Well assemble all the buildings into the one final city.
[b]Important: Before youre starting to post enthusiastic and start asking questions, we would like to advice you to read the FaQ on the [/b][[b]website[/b]](http://www.minastirithproject.com) [b]first. [/b]
[b]Project leader:[/b]
Pier Janssen (Pjanssen)
[b]Assistant Project Leader:[/b]
Wilco de Kreij (WdeKreij)
[b]Lead Modellers:[/b]
Alejandro Santamaria (AMoN-AMoK)
Pier Janssen (Pjanssen)
Simon Barsky (Synthesizer)
[b]Modellers:[/b]
Chris Radcliffe (powersurge5000)
Juan Gonzalez (Gomo_o)
Darren Frenette (Dern)
Nicholas Kato (nkato)
Philip Avakian (phil_boy)
Török Csaba (theobaldo)
Alan Hernandez (alancran)
Raul Varela (rava12)
Will Chandler (energia)
[b]Props modeller:[/b]
Josh Staker (Terkonn)
[b]Concept artist:[/b]
Pablo Eirín (Bogoux)
[b]Graphics Programmer:[/b]
Flavien Brebion (Ysaneya)
[b]Matte painter:[/b]
Vial Rouat (Zon Wernor)
[b]Animator:[/b]
Philip Avakian (phil_boy)
[b][b][color=yellow]Music and sounddesign:[/b]
Alex Pfeffer (Waywyn)
[/color][/b][b]Texture Artist:[/b]
[b]Building Mapper:[/b]
Josh Staker (Terkonn)
[b]Website Developper:[/b]
Wilco de Kreij (WdeKreij)
Here are some frequently seen issues considering the organisation:
[i]-I want to join! But how?[/i]
[Check out this post.](http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=4548393&postcount=2516)
[i]-Which building should I model?[/i]
If you dont know which building you should pick, post a reply in this thread, and well have a look for you. If you like some kind of special type of building (tower for instance), tell us.
We will also give you a code, referring to the map, for any building that youll model.
[i]-I have no clue about where my building is, so I cant find reference images?[/i]
For this problem, weve created a map of the city. This has codes on it, so we can easily name a building, without tons of descriptions, or images.
Reference images can be found on the [website](http://www.minastirithproject.com)
[i]-I want to start texturing, is that possible?[/i]
No, not yet. For this issue, please look at the FaQ, where it is all made clear why.
If youve got any questions considering the organisation, please take a look at the FaQ at the website. And if you dont have an answer to your question after that, you can email me.
[img]http://www.minastirith-project.com/thread%20cgtalk/Progress.jpg[/img]
Here are some stills of models that are done in the previous months of this project.
On the [website](http://www.minastirithproject.com) youll find a list of members that are currently working on this project. There youll also find renders of all the buildings that are finished.
[[img]http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/549/mttotal122rightct2.th.jpg[/img]](http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/549/mttotal122rightct2.jpg) [[img]http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8867/mttotal122middlemc2.th.jpg[/img]](http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8867/mttotal122middlemc2.jpg) [[img]http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/209/mttotal122leftjy0.th.jpg[/img]](http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/209/mttotal122leftjy0.jpg) [[img]http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9758/mttotal122topch6.th.jpg[/img]](http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9758/mttotal122topch6.jpg)
If youve got any further questions, please take a look at the FaQ on the [website](http://www.minastirith-project.com/) first, before mailing or posting in this thread. That keeps it easy for us all.
And at last I would like to say that I hope that youll all enjoy this project!
On behalf of the whole team:
-P. Janssen
-W. de Kreij
Link to the previous thread:
[http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=126092&page=1&pp=20](http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=126092&page=1&pp=20)