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Okay ... so I was able to do some quick renders and such. I like the fact that I was able to get the randomness of the dwellings. The colors and shading are what I was looking for. Haven't gotten into any serious textures. The trees are too skinny compared to the pics though. They need to be fuller at the top, and perhaps just a tiny bit shorter. I'll delete some of the trees when I add sparse grass and rocks.

Looking at the reference photos (see below), I noticed that some of the structures have a more rounded roof (female). And then there are rectangular and square buildings too. All in all, not a bad test run. I'll post more after I add the other dwelling types ... the sky ... mountains in the background, etc.

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... so I'm back to work. I've totally turned issue one of NETERS on it's head. Doing the research; one of my favorite things to do during the creation-process, and looking at Dogon villages. These pics were found on the web and therefore do not belong to me. I'm using them as reference pics for a 3D model of the Dogon city I'm building using Softimage and Hexagon. You'll see...

A couple more...

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... aint got nothing to do with NETERS. Remember Cell from Dragon Ball Z? I do. I found this pic over at www.cgtalk.com. It's just badazz to me...