Rainbow Castle of magical goodness

 Rainbow Glass Castle!!

I had a lot of fun making this project! Although I mostly winged this project and made up elements as I go, I'm pretty happy with the end result (even if it caused a lot of suffering)! Most of the time was spent trying to sculpt the intricate shapes and experimenting with materials (which consists of trying to get the glass to cooperate).

Speaking of glass, I had SO much trouble making textures for the glass. Originally I was going to use a rainbow gradient on the glass, however it 1) didn't work at all when raytraced and was just a piece of neon blue glass and 2) even when I did manage to make it work, it just didn't look very good. It's why I ended up using separate coloured sections of glass instead. I might try again with the gradient idea in the future though...

The rendering process was also really weird when it came to the glass. The shadows were not accurate in the slightest in the render preview, so I had to do a lot of back and forth to make sure the glass looked right :(

I'll probably add more renders here in the future when I have the time to do so. Maybe I'll even go back in and add in the giant rainbow at the back of the castle that I completely forgot to do as well （´∇｀''）

Any who, here's some work in progress pictures of the castle!

The castle in different stages

Final Model in shaded mode

Some assets/tests that were used in the model, one in shaded view, one in rendered (only some are shown as I deleted the ones I didn't use)

These are all the images I have 'cause I may or may not have forgotten to take in progress pictures until I was halfway done... I'll make sure to take more in the next project (ᵕ—ᴗ—)