Visual Aid Project: Phase 15

A shot of the Balcony Doors,  trying to get the right angles for some regular screenshots.

Portal Door, Mark I.  

Visual Aid Project: Phase 14

With the completion of the doors to the balcony, adding the rest of the wood floor, and finally making the large couch and its coffee table, the common room of The Loft is now completed!

Visual Aid Project: Phase 13

Stairs!   Okay, is was probably the most time-consuming and aggravating aspect of this whole project to date.  I think they will look good when I'm finished though.

And finished.

Visual Aid Project: Phase 12

Fireplace, Mark I

After observing this shot, I have concluded that the couch really needs to be moved away from the fireplace a bit more.  I don't want us to singe our tails.

Have a couple variants of the couch, in progress:

Visual Aid Project: Phase 11

I changed the chairs, they were driving me nuts, also made the first of two rugs for the common room.  The stumps are where the couch is going to be.

And the couch.

Visual Aid Project: Phase 10

Laying floor in this program is just as time consuming as in real life!  I came up with a design for a parquet floor for the common room, found a way to engineer some neat furniture for the dining area (screw physics!  Some will get what I mean by that. )  So, here's a preliminary shot of the dining area, with the completed kitchen behind it.

Visual Aid Project: Phase 9

I made a color change to the kitchen.  It looks so retro, now like some hipster lives in it or something... oh wait...

Also, I used a concept I have used on RL Lego models in the past, making open-able sections of wall and ceiling so you can get inside and look, or do work on the interior.

Visual Aid Project: Phase 8

The kitchen layout:

Visual Aid Project: Phase 7

More work on the kitchen.  I have the stove built now.  And reworked the kitchen sink, a bit.

Visual Aid Project: Phase 6

Loft, seen from a corner building.

The roof and the kitchen.

Visual Aid Project: Phase 5

Preview version.

External Day 5

Visual Aid Project: Phase 4

Changed the design to incorporate layered bearing walls, so that I can show one color on the outside and another for the interior walls.  I also restarted the main model, so that I can show the actual building in its entirety from a street view.  Here is the Loft from the street view, with the first floor now showing.

Visual Aid Project: Phase 3

In order to make a more accurate building that belongs in Canterlot City, I had to do a bunch of show research.  Now, the show is a continuity nightmare, something that drives me, as an artist/writer insane, however this is pretty good reference material.

Visual Aid Project: Phase 2b

I got the front face of the building done, too.

Visual Aid Project: Phase 2

Okay... so, I went on a complete tangent and found this program to play with.  I kept joking to everypony that I would build the loft out of Legos.   I guess it's no longer a joke.