{"author_link":"\/users\/tommyflower","author_name":"Tommyflower","author_uid":"tommyflower","comments":[],"epoch":1570960165,"event":"LD45","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":175382,"likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"137000","p_author":"Tommyflower","p_authorkey":"1014558","p_urlkey":"353276","p_title":"Interior design with Mr Raccoon","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD45","p_time":"1570960165","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1014558","us_name":"Tommyflower","us_username":"tommyflower","event_start":"1570147200","event_key":"78","event_name":"Ludum Dare 45"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD45","removed_author":false},"_superparent":159347,"_trust":1,"author":14558,"body":"**Drawing rooms** can be a long boring task, but I wanted a believable cozy environment for [Mr Raccoon](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/not-my-hoarder). Fortunately it was a minimal one because Mr Raccoons, as we know, hates clutter!\n\n\nI started by finding the perspective I needed and traced the main walls.\nYou can do this by creating **a perspective grid** or by downloading one. Something that looks like this:\n![perspective-grid.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29611.png)\n\nThen I draw the walls: **I make walls with 2 layers**: one for the texture, one with the colour, I put the colour layer in multiply mode so you see through but still **can change the colour whenever you want**.\n![stanza1.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29612.png)\n\nI used a wood texture I simplified a bit for the floor and made sure to transform it so that the perspective was ok.\n\n![stanza2.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29613.png)\nThen I looked for some furniture. I use photo references and I trace on them. Sometimes if they have a special texture I use some filter to cut out the extra colour, as in the case of the cushion he meditates on.\n\nFor the shojis, the japanese doors, **I built one and duplicated it wherever I needed it.**\nIf you are using photoshop, the **smart object** feature lets you create templates so if you have to change something later, every window you made will change accordingly.\n![stanza3.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29614.png)\nWith time you can **create your library of furniture** to speed up your interior design process.\n\n![stanza4.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29615.png)\n\nAt that point everything was still a bit messy flat and random colored.\nWhat I did next was:\nArranging the furniture where I needed it\nAdding shadows: **mainly shading the corners of the room and all the edges between the walls.**\n\nNext I added the **outdoor scenery**: a garden that I modified to make it look **bright, saturated and a bit blurred**.\n\n\nYou see in the pictures above the final colours, but this is how everything looked like before I...\n\n![stanza5.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29616.png)\n\n**chose a color palette**. This is an important step. I wanted all the colour in the scene to make sense.\nThere are different palette generating tool you can use. I like this one:\nhttps:\/\/coolors.co\/app\n\nI decided that my main colour would be the red of Mr Raccoon\u2019s kimono and so I chose the other colours accordingly.\nThen I saved the palette and went back to my room trying to **adjust the hue of everything** so that it fell into one of my colours.\n![stanza6.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29617.png)\nThe final result was so much better this way!\n","comments":8,"comments-timestamp":"2022-12-20T07:36:57Z","created":"2019-10-11T11:02:23Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":175382,"love":4,"love-timestamp":"2019-10-14T09:30:33Z","meta":[],"modified":"2022-12-20T07:36:57Z","name":"Interior design with Mr Raccoon","node-timestamp":"2019-10-13T09:49:25Z","parent":161020,"parents":[1,5,9,159347,161020],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/not-my-hoarder\/interior-design-with-mr-raccoon","published":"2019-10-13T09:49:25Z","scope":"public","slug":"interior-design-with-mr-raccoon","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":529341},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"175382","n_urlkey":"353276","n_parent":"161020","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/not-my-hoarder\/interior-design-with-mr-raccoon","n_slug":"interior-design-with-mr-raccoon","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"14558","n_created":"1570791743","n_modified":"1671521817","n_version":"529341","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/not-my-hoarder\/interior-design-with-mr-raccoon","text":"**Drawing rooms** can be a long boring task, but I wanted a believable cozy environment for [Mr Raccoon](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/not-my-hoarder). Fortunately it was a minimal one because Mr Raccoons, as we know, hates clutter!\n\n\nI started by finding the perspective I needed and traced the main walls.\nYou can do this by creating **a perspective grid** or by downloading one. Something that looks like this:\n![perspective-grid.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29611.png)\n\nThen I draw the walls: **I make walls with 2 layers**: one for the texture, one with the colour, I put the colour layer in multiply mode so you see through but still **can change the colour whenever you want**.\n![stanza1.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29612.png)\n\nI used a wood texture I simplified a bit for the floor and made sure to transform it so that the perspective was ok.\n\n![stanza2.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29613.png)\nThen I looked for some furniture. I use photo references and I trace on them. Sometimes if they have a special texture I use some filter to cut out the extra colour, as in the case of the cushion he meditates on.\n\nFor the shojis, the japanese doors, **I built one and duplicated it wherever I needed it.**\nIf you are using photoshop, the **smart object** feature lets you create templates so if you have to change something later, every window you made will change accordingly.\n![stanza3.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29614.png)\nWith time you can **create your library of furniture** to speed up your interior design process.\n\n![stanza4.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29615.png)\n\nAt that point everything was still a bit messy flat and random colored.\nWhat I did next was:\nArranging the furniture where I needed it\nAdding shadows: **mainly shading the corners of the room and all the edges between the walls.**\n\nNext I added the **outdoor scenery**: a garden that I modified to make it look **bright, saturated and a bit blurred**.\n\n\nYou see in the pictures above the final colours, but this is how everything looked like before I...\n\n![stanza5.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29616.png)\n\n**chose a color palette**. This is an important step. I wanted all the colour in the scene to make sense.\nThere are different palette generating tool you can use. I like this one:\nhttps:\/\/coolors.co\/app\n\nI decided that my main colour would be the red of Mr Raccoon\u2019s kimono and so I chose the other colours accordingly.\nThen I saved the palette and went back to my room trying to **adjust the hue of everything** so that it fell into one of my colours.\n![stanza6.png](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/29617.png)\nThe final result was so much better this way!\n","title":"Interior design with Mr Raccoon","wayback_source":[]}