Greetings! Enjoy my first attempt at the newly released plans for the renovation of the Kona Hawaii Temple. As with everything, I do lately, it’s as much guess as anything else.
Tag: Hawaii
Historic Video Series: Laie Hawaii (1919-1948)
Laie Hawaii Temple was small when it was originally dedicated. It would stay small like this through World War 2, after which it would receive its first expansion.
Laie Hawaii Temple video complete and online!
I have completed my model and video for the Laie Hawaii Temple. In addition, I have completed a few historical renders of the temple to show how the temple has changed over time. Click the image below the video to go to my Laie Temple page and see the images.
Laie Hawaii Temple Progress
I spent a chunk of this morning while working on the Laie Hawaii Temple trying to find away to make the friezes around the temple quicker and with a better level of detail. It has yet to pay off. So for now I have let the friezes be, and worked instead on the grounds and the temple details.
I have resolved some of my concerns about the land behind the temple, and have added the north side walkway area. I made further changes to the midway, and was certain I had a higher resolution image for the grounds, but It looks the same now. The Temple celestial room is in the center section that sticks up, and today I basically redid everything that wasn’t the celestial room!
It’s amazing that a temple can be photographed for weddings and sealings and just for fun a thousand times a day and there are still portions of the grounds that you can’t find good reference for. This is why I have hundreds of really ugly or uninteresting photos of temples all over the United States. Laie has a couple of spots that I am still having difficulty figuring out. but I am pleased with how much like the temple it is beginning to look.
Sunday at Laie Hawaii
This model could take me forty years. I made some small progress on the South Frieze today,
but suddenly became worried that the scaling was off. Adjustments were made, and I spent the rest of the day working on the grounds and temple trim. Because those are completely related somehow. You might wonder, as I frequently do, if the extra detail I am putting into the Friezes is worth it or not. Even from a distance you can see where I have and have not added the extra detail. In the end I would be very unhappy with the flat look of the friezes if I did not add the detail.
Development images:
Sunday at Laie Hawaii
There is a problem with Laie Temple. Around the top of the Laie temple are 4 wonderful carved friezes, done by Avard Fairbanks. They are fairly deep and heavily detailed. So the struggle is how to portray them. A plane flat surface with a photo will do, but only if I render from the same angle. My video will go past them, from at or above the same level. The photo will “clash” in a way, as the mind will pick up that the photo was taken from a different angle.
The Friezes are to detailed to model flat out. I am not good enough to get every detail on what you would call an “organic shape” just right. Organic shapes, ones that literally represent something living, give me grief. They are just not something I have figured out just yet. In the end, I came up with a hybrid. Something along the lines of a popup book meets 3D model. I am making the outlines of each individual carving, giving them depth and rounded corners, then overlaying a very faint image of the photo to add some detail and artificial details.
Here is the plain shape (Just the center segment so far):
And here is the shape with photos:
The rest of the model has no new details yet. The friezes will take me several visits to finish and get just right.
