I’ve been taking more photos and planning on what to work on next. I’ve started working on the transmitter tower for WJXT Channel 4. I’ll never have a camera this close to the tower so you can see some of the polys in this render. Plugging forward…

Progress on the Crowne Plaza hotel. I have to finish the parking garage and Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.

One of my first models I began working on and was on my old site is the Main Street bridge. This model has been quite a task to reproduce from photographs. It really is like Blue Steel though, it’s nowhere near ready. I got to a point where I wasn’t sure what to work on next so I began working on other buildings so I could still see progress on the project.

Began work on the Crowne Plaza hotel, which sits right on the St. John’s River and features Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. The hotel sits on top of a parking garage which is not yet featured.

It is my current effort to create initial models to inspire and motivate me to press forward. Along with effort is my model for the Riverplace Tower owned by Wachovia bank.

This building resides right on the St. John’s River and is a defining element of the downtown Jacksonville skyline. Constructed in 1967, the Riverplace Tower is known for the University Club of Jacksonville which occupies the 27th floor.

Began work on the model for the Stein Mart building. This building is also inhabited by Mercantile Bank. This building, designed by KBJ Architects was an interesting task to accomplish as it was deceivingly more difficult than anticipated. Not all detail has been added yet. More to come…

Got downtown this past weekend to take some more reference photos. Latest model is of the AvMed building. It’s not a large building, but it is a detail of downtown.

Glass panes are modeled instead textured to ensure no loss of detail at any distance. Doing so adds many more polys, but this building so far has no texture maps. Glass also has a large diffused bump map to distort reflection. I’m still working on a solution for this but what I have will work for now.