Build Study

~ Street Designs ~
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A "build study" is anything that you would study to improve your building skills.

A build study may be a group of pictures that are related by a specific detail. For example, different shapes of roofs and the reasons for those shapes.

A build study may be screenshots of someone else's builds. Do they have a recognizable build style? If so, why is it recognizable? What techniques did they use to achieve effects? Why did they do this instead of that? Did they use these blocks because of color or because of texture... or both?

A build study may be a critique of your own build. Why does this corner look good but the other corner doesn't? This works in this scene but it wouldn't work in that scene because ________.

A build study may be an intentionally incomplete build with cut-away sections exposing the things above, below, and around that would have been covered up if the build were complete. These can be great for visual reference notes on special lighting effects or mechanical functions if you used a contraption mod.

A build study may be the same build repeated several times with only slight differences that is then later used as a visual reference. What does it look like when grey wool is used instead of stone brick? Panes vs glass blocks? Slabs vs stairs?

A build study may be purely conceptual. Try things, see what they look like. What works? What doesn't?

~ Street Designs ~
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A small section of street exploring at least five possible design options. Raised sidewalk or raised curb? Parking/biking lane or not? Sewer drains? How much work are you willing to do: dig the roads lower so the sidewalks and builds are flush with the ground or build the roads flush with the ground and raise every thing else?

~ Hobbit House Cut-Away ~
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The exposed frame-work of a hill-home or "Hobbit" house. What does a "hill home" or a "Hobbit" house look like, structurally, under all the dirt and grass? How wide does each wall have to be for the circular door ways to look good and fit right?

~ House Model ~
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A miniature, model construct for planning a house. Some projects can be planned by building tiny, model versions first. In this case, a suburban home with an attached garage and driveway in front, a front entrance off to the side and smaller room extensions and a bay window extending beyond the main section of the house.

~ Living Room Cut-Away ~
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A corner of a living room for trying different color combinations. Use WordEdit to change the wood floor to wall-to-wall carpeting with colored wool. Too much? Change the floor back and use the colored wool to create a rug instead.

~ Ktichen Cut-Away ~
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A kitchen where two walls have been cut-away to reveal the different layers. What proportions will things have to be? What color scheme works for the project? Cut-away build studies can help work-out details such as these.

~ "Noncubic" Mod Display ~
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A display of every block made by Yves de Beck's "Noncubic" Minetest mod. Laying out all the blocks in a mod will give you a much better idea of what they look like in different texture packs and under different lighting situations.

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