Logopolis & Castrovalva: Wandering the corridors of the TARDIS

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Back to the unidentifiable ornaments on Romana's shelves. This is a sort of pink crystalline rock, possibly with a butterfly motif on it.

 

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Some sort of cowrie seashell, maybe...

 

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Now that I've done most of the objects in Romana's room, I had to tackle the big feathery things that always seemed like they'd be a huge challenge. Having learned a thing or two doing the plants in the cloister room, the feathers were actually quite quick and simple to do (apart from some odd bugs where changing the colour of one feather changed the colour of another to a completely different colour). As they have a lot of fine structure, I wasn't surprised when Blender's denoising made a smeary mess of them:

I tried again a bit closer and with more samples, but clearly they are going to be a bit of a headache to render nicely.

 

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My battles with Blender to show the feathers properly, have been very frustrating, but they are easier to see now, if perhaps a bit too dense.

I had to drop the render quality too, as for the first time I got a crash during the rendering step.

 

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Some sort of alien bird thing ornament.

This is based on an actual object from Logopolis, with a fair chunk of speculation, but I think it's within reason.
Here's a comparison:


Just a couple more seashells to do now, and the shelves are complete.

 

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A few more bits for the shelves, and the weird alien horse sculpture from Full Circle.


A closer view of the pastel crystal and fancy sphere. These are the first things I've had to invent to fill up the parts of the shelves that aren't visible in either Full Circle or Logopolis, but I think they're along the lines of the other objects she has.

A nice bonus is the view of the rest of the room in the chrome bottle on the right.

 

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A view of the other side of Romana's room, with the chessboard and dangerous-looking metal sculpture from Full Circle.

 

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I've also been tinkering with the hidden corner of the room. As there's no room for a bedside cabinet, I decided to make another custom roundel, that pops open to reveal a little shelf for a glass of water or jewellery (or whatever Timelords take off at night). It also has a built-in gentle downlight for bedtime reading.

This corner also includes another painting seen in Full Circle (not that you can see much of it here) and a sort of wicker mobile from the same story. The discs are supposed to be white, so I'm not sure why they've ended up green here.

 

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The chrome scultpure thing kinda makes me think of a TensaBarrier pole

The Purple and Gold sphere must have been an absolute beast to model!!

 

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The Purple and Gold sphere must have been an absolute beast to model!!

As seems to be the way with Blender, some of the best looking results take the least time and effort. I produced the basic shape just playing around with some modifiers and only later realized it fit Romana's taste in glassware edged with metal.

It's just an icosphere with a wireframe modifier, followed by a bevel modifier. That's it for the shape, then a noise texture plugged into the Displacement node of the Material Output, to make the rippled glass effect.

 

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Final object on Romana's shelf is now done - a big shell-like object. This is seen in Full Circle, and something similar is visible on this shelf in photos from Logopolis, so I'm presuming it's the same thing.

I forgot to turn the main lights back on before starting the render, but it actually makes it look more like the lighting in the episode like this.
Just the tablecloth left to do in Romana's room, then it's either back to lots of leaves in the cloister room, or I start adding knobs and levers to the console.

 

[MttElby]

Back to the last bit to do in Romana's room.

After many failed attempts and lots of Blender crashes, I have something approaching the flowery tablecloth:

The scaling of the flowers and lace isn't quite right, but this has been such a headache that I'm at the "that'll do" stage. I may revisit it once I've finished the cloister room.

 

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Just a small update on the plant troughs in the cloister room. I had naively thought they were all the same design, but no - so more work to do.
They both have complex, but indistinct, patterns on them, so I can only approximate.

At least the black trough is one of the white ones painted black.

 

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I ended up taking a longer Easter break than planned, but hopefully can get back to some sort of regular schedule now, especially as I started this last May and it would be nice to complete the Logopolis build within a year.

Just before that, I've been taking more snapshots for reference and noticed that the columns from the cloister room pop up again in The Visitation:


Added to them also being in the The Time Warrior, as rassilonsrod spotted, they may be the leading prop "extra".

 

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Going a bit off-topic, but while grabbing images of the space helmets used in Four to Doomsday, I spotted a curly-haired crew member crouching down.

I guess he was there to operate the laser that Monarch used to try to breach the TARDIS. Or maybe an extra-short android wandered in...

 

[rassilonsrod]

Welcome back online sir! (In my best Kryten voice )

Looking forward to your next updates

 

[MttElby]

I finally sorted out the pink trees in the cloister room, so here's a render of both of them. The one on the left isn't yellow enough yet (it looks it in the preview, just not in the render ), but I'm pretty happy other than that.

 

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A more yellow tree and I've also now put the more accurate plant troughs into the cloister room.

It's not very obvious, but I've also re-done the grouting between the floor tiles too.

 

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Strewing (by which I mean tracing over a photo) some ivy stems on the walls...

They're a bit too brightly coloured at the moment, but that's a quick fix.

 

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Another tree in position and a few scattered leaves.