Sam Towler Art

Spruce Caboose Hobby & Craft "Planes • Trains • Automobiles" (Catch the movie reference?) Every year in December, we set up a small Department 56-esque village that has the usual 2-3 buildings. When the thought of adding a new building came up, I thought it would be more fun to BUILD one, rather than BUY one. Thus, the creation of the "Spruce Caboose Hobby & Craft" shop. The initial elevation drawings for the hobby shop I designed this building completely from the ground up, drawing architectural details and color scheme ideas from Disneyland's Main Street, in order to compliment the other buildings with the Department 56 design and feel. Plan view drawing mainly done to figure out the placement of the two working layouts One of many color elevations to figure out the color scheme for the building. The color scheme for the Spruce Caboose was mainly inspired from Disneyland's "Disney Clothiers" store on Main Street. T...

            "One of the projects that I was assigned in my Maya 3D class was to create a restaurant with a pirate theme. Being familiar with themed environments from my own projects, this was a  right up my alley. The hardest part of the project was just trying to compose all the elements perfectly so you could tell what everything is--all in one shot. While shape, form, and composition was the key priority, the lighting really topped it all off, after fudging with the settings and doing render after render to really nail it. Despite the half-hour render time, and the occasional computer crash, it was worth fussing around with.  November 2010