Rendered Views

I decided, because the scene being depicted is the gate scene and is meant to be cold and alone, I would put snow on the ground and have flakes falling.

texture list

http://freetextures.3dtotal.com/index.php?s=c:Stone&cid=18&sc=Texture/Cobblestones

door and current window design

door: here

cart & window designs

The design for the window is on the right. I'll be working with that later on: http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/gothic-architecture/images/gothic-architecture-6.jpg

gonna put shutters on the windows, as it is supposed to be a early 1900's French military barracks.

scene blocked out

Sketches

Tutorials

Great beginning to a set of the tutorials: 

Got it running finally...we begin by making a couple boxes:

BUT, come to find out Vray hasn't loaded on my system, so the next step of the tutorial is not able to be done (making a camera)

 8:27am- After a bit I saved my file and closed it down to take care of some other things, but when I went back to open it up I found it had been corrupted. I tried saving a few other things, but they, too, became corrupted. SO...I uninstalled 3Ds Max, sent Autodesk an email, reinstalled it this morning once I got my response from Autodesk. Ended up I had some malware that had decided to attach itself to one of the install files...Sophus took care of it quick enough when I scanned my comp.