City Block

I'm working on a small scene in CE3, I want to get that early-mid 1900s feel to it. Currently white boxing it out but I've always gone at a snails pace when it comes to getting proportions correct.

My goal's not 100% accuracy, so there are differences in height and what not from the reference, but the building on the left is really tripping me up, I can't seem to get it right. It has these larger, double-wide windows and I don't know if it's the angle in the reference or what, but they always seem off from everything else. I could use some tips for speeding up my work flow along with retaining accuracy from references like this.

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Credits to shorpy.com for the reference.

Thanks for the comments every one.

Regarding the DoF, this is the default ToD for the editor, so there shouldn't be any. As e-freak said, it's most likely because of the simple material (just a white box material I found in the material editor) with no UVs on the solids. Plus I used print screen for the shots, might be impacting the appearance as well.

Quote from Jenn0_Bing

They may be double windows, that's correct, but if you look at them they are not actually double the width of the other windows in your reference as they have thinner panels of glass in them. They might be slightly wider but no more than a third I'd say. I think your other windows may be a bit too thin as well if you compare them to the reference, but that's being really nit-picky.That being said, I think it's only looking wrong to you because you know the reference so well, the actual 3D stuff doesn't look that bad when viewed on it's own.

Yeah, I've noticed they're way smaller than double the width of the windows on the building next to it. I think what's throwing me off is that I'm getting this impression they're fairly large but when compared to the other windows, they're obviously not. I'm trying not to get too lost in the minutiae here as it always slows me down and it rarely makes a noticeable difference.

Some progress made. Pretty happy with the feel/proportions of the buildings. I think I'll get some tileable textures made to start blocking out colors and materials, then I'll start placing Crysis 2 assets to help flesh out the scene.

The tallest building on the right most likely wont be in the final shots much, so I kept the block out details to a minimum. It'll just be there for the illusion that the scene goes on beyond what the camera can see. I might have to add another building behind the long one on the left though, I'm not entirely sure how much of the area I want in the final shots.

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Still in the works, just haven't posted anything new as I've been focused on getting a better understanding of normal maps (EQ @ polycount is a godsend), color, light, and a few other things.

Texturing has started though, so hopefully in the next week here I'll feel happy with throwing an update up.