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  1. SarahJoy
    Nice little vignette! I agree with others; the cropping is very distracting.
  2. SarahJoy
    Awesome, as always. Congrats on the frontpaging!
  3. SarahJoy
    The details inside the ruins are great, and I love all the texturing that's in the build.
  4. SarahJoy
    Really charming building! The crossbow signage is a nice touch.
  5. SarahJoy
    I agree with others that the underdeveloped groundscape is distracting from the rest of the build. Even just scattering a few 1x1 round plates (in the same or similar color) would add some dimension. I really like that Avalonian base!
  6. SarahJoy
    This is a nice little build, especially for limited bricks. I really enjoy the way you're approaching your Avalonian tasks, creating stand-alone builds.
  7. SarahJoy
    I like the thoughtful layout, and as others have said, the Norse buildings are lovely!
  8. SarahJoy
    Marvelously detailed build! I really enjoy your photography -- the angles you use really help to tell the story in a cinematographic way.
  9. SarahJoy
    This is just stunning! Every part of the build is just gorgeous: rockwork, landscaping, that bridge! The masonry, the texture of the house, the variation of color in the roof, the trees . . . wow. just wow.
  10. SarahJoy
    Snot rocks are definitely on my to-do list. I want to get studs-up rocks mastered first, though; until I can manipulate the studs-up rocks to work the way I envision them, I don't feel ready for snot rocks. Thank you!
  11. SarahJoy
    Thanks y'all! IT was a fun challenge to take those intersecting curved walls from concept to reality. Thank you Kai! Re: flowers and dense foliage, I understand. I know the little garden part is small (about 16 bricks inside, at its widest) and can't really compare to UoP builds like this or this, but I had hoped based on this and this, it would show sufficient mastery. Thanks mccoyed! Noted: more minifigures! I find I tend to build first and consider minifigs once everything else is complete, so they often seem superfluous. I need to change my way of thinking on this.
  12. SarahJoy
    Thanks Simon! :)
  13. SarahJoy
    New build! A Joshua Tree in the Contemplative Gardens Requesting UoP credits for Architecture: Round Walls and Landscaping: Flowers and Dense Foliage
  14. SarahJoy
    One of the oldest parts of the Contemplative Gardens was built by a gentleman named MacDubh. Like many, he showed up in Ruadh one day, stayed for a while, and then disappeared into the desert with no notice. MacDubh had unusual ideas; he seemed to think that all of Kaliphlin should be united under a single tartan, and couldn't be dissuaded from the notion, no matter how many times we told him that Kaliphlin aren't really interested in homogeneity. Undeterred, he decided that he would subliminally change our minds by incorporating his vision of a Kaliphlin plaid into builds across the Guild. Now, none of the travelling artists have seen this pattern anywhere else, but perhaps we're looking in the wrong places. At any rate, we enjoy this piece of the gardens he built for us. "The Contemplative Gardens: a collection of gardens and religious structures located in the southeast corner of Ruadh. Popular with locals, students, and tourists alike as a quiet, calm location, perfect for meditation and inspiration." from Ruadh: A Guide, coming soon to a forum near you The tree in the center is meant to be inspired by the Joshua Tree, native to the Mojave Desert. According to Wikipedia, most trusted of resources, it was named for its resemblance to a man reaching his hands up to the sky in prayer. Seemed appropriate. As always, feedback and constructive criticism are most welcome! I'd like to claim UoP credits for: Architecture: Round Walls (approved) Landscape Design: Flowers and Dense Foliage Landscaping (pending: 2 for, one against, one undecided)
  15. SarahJoy
    I just got home. While I was out, I was brainstorming ideas on how we could work together to make this work, coming up with a few tweaks that would reflect both our storylines without making it, as you put it, bland and boring. However, as you prefer to just move the location, that works too. There's no reason to be uncivil.
  16. SarahJoy
    Z is right; you're missing the point here. It's not a matter of vignette versus full build, though if you had looked at my descriptions of Ruadh and the builds so far, you'd have an idea of what Ruadh looks like. A nice little vignette like this one still could have worked. The problem is that this is not a Ruadhi build. Ruadh does not take bribes, and at no point has it ever been implied that it is corrupt. It's not cool to alter the character of someone else's storyline like that. Further, the Ruadh market has been established as offering the finest luxury artisan goods, and "brutish armor" doesn't really fit that. The story needs to, in some way, reflect the character of the location. Had you talked with me, as I requested, we could have made slight adjustments to your story, so that it would fit in Ruadh. The other community members who have built in Ruadh have each worked with and built on the Ruadh storyline within their build. In each case, there was some collaborative effort at the pre-planning stage. When you build what you want, where you want, knowingly disregarding the preferences of fellow community members, it feels inconsiderate and disrespectful to the rest of us, who are trying to work together as a community to build Historica. I'm not against you building in Ruadh, Behemoth, but there needs to be some cooperation. If you'd like this build to remain in Ruadh, let's come up with some minor alterations to the story so that it works here.
  17. SarahJoy

    I'm just here for the bricks.

  18. SarahJoy
    Such diversionary tactics will not work in Kaliphlin! Our spies are warning us of unrest in Mitgardia; we will not be so easily distracted!
  19. SarahJoy
    Well, I like the warm sandy landscape! It's the back of the build I dislike -- I just didn't get the rock formations I wanted. I'll figure it out in the next build. I'm sorry I seemed so down on this one -- I do like the booth, and Kali's suggestions I think really improved my landscape texturing. I may end up eliminating the gray cloth, but in the meantime, I'm focusing on getting my lighting and camera setup correct, first. Thanks! Thanks, y'all, for your compliments, and thank you for noticing the details! Round wall DENIED! Time to look at new ways to use round walls. Thank you for your compliments and the roof credit! Thank you! Ruadh does its best not to bore you. We're not always successful, but we try.
  20. SarahJoy
    NM posted a clarification of issues within the Doctorate program that I think might have been overlooked, and requested feedback. I hope I'm not over-stepping by drawing attention to this.
  21. SarahJoy
    I'll third this. For me, I have trouble with the idea that you're trying to shoehorn your own (somewhat previously established in your mind) personal storyline and elements into GoH, rather than letting your storyline organically grow within the world of GoH.
  22. SarahJoy
    And that's why I like you! I appreciate thoughtful tough criticism. I agree, if UoP credits were child's play, they wouldn't be worth much. If I'm understanding you correctly, you mean something like this (my own rough example, irregular base) or more like this (more formal decorative base)?
  23. SarahJoy
    All proposed clarifications seem good-ish? 1 and 2 seem pretty straightforward. 1: Obviously, if you want credit within the Guilds of Historica, it needs to be a GoH build. If you built it for other purposes, and it also fits within GoH, that's fine, but it needs to have been posted here appropriately. 2. Yes. 3. This one seems like, "Well, isn't that how it's been done so far?" but I suppose it's good to clarify the standards. Aside from specifying when one reaches, say, the last of tree or roof builds, I thought this was the status quo. 4. This is an interesting one. Option to retract seems good, but allowing a person to then (after being denied a specific credit) pursue a different credit seems both a bit desperate on the part of the builder, and unnecessary work on the part of our esteemed UoP evaluators. edit: Perhaps this is only an option after an evaluator suggests pursuing a specific credit instead? Perhaps there's a limit to the number of total (approved AND denied) credits a person can claim on a single build? All that said, I'm just a new builder, and as always, I yield to the more experienced opinions of other builders here.
  24. SarahJoy
    Thank you! As to UoP DoH, fair enough. It's certainly not a traditional round wall/tower, and I'm good with planning on a future, more traditional, fully-in-the-round tower-wall-thing. While "nope" votes are disappointing, I appreciate that UoP looks for and holds us all to specific standards.
  25. SarahJoy
    Here's a quick-and-dirty photo of the roof, that better shows its construction: As you can see, it's just a series of short round walls, each reduced in diameter, with a few cheese slopes slapped on top, tied into the side walls. It's not at all water-tight, but that's not really a problem in this part of Kaliphlin. Thanks! Thank you for the detailed critique! I agree that the rock formation needs some work. I believe the polite term is, "a good start" -- something to improve in the next build, definitely. The jumper plates are both aesthetic and functional -- they're the only things holding the 4x4 and 4x6 plates underneath from falling apart! A potion shelf would have been a good addition -- I thought about adding interior decoration, but totally drew a blank. Potions would have been a good solution. Thank you, and thank you for suggesting them! Thanks for the feedback! Rocks will definitely improve in future builds. I agree, I really should have a dark blue flag; it's on my "to buy" list. Fortunately, Kaliphlin is less strict on such things for newer members. Thank you for the excellent critique! If the only round wall was the little bit on the bottom, I would totally agree with you that it isn't worth a UoP credit. I'm comfortable claiming "Round Walls" for the way I used round wall techniques both in the base of the booth and its roof, showing mastery of the technique, but I understand why you chose not to give credit. The front is a bit too rectilinear. Originally, the fortune teller was supposed to be tucked into a corner of the old city walls, and that's how the build started, but I decided that such valuable real estate wouldn't be used on a tarot reader, and so we ended up in the crescent-shaped rock formation. I tried to curve the rocks a bit, but clearly not enough. edit: I also changed my lighting setup. Next build I'll take comparable shots (same lighting, angle, etc) with my phone and my camera for y'all to evaluate the difference. I don't understand the "raise it in a frame" -- could you elaborate? Thank you for your compliments!
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