Made while I was learning Maya for the first time (from Aug.- Dec. of 2010). For some reason I was obsessed about making the original gates of Versailles for my Maya class. I was able to find a grainy, front view, image of what it used to look like before being torn down during the French Revolution in order to start modeling. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to decipher much of the drawing and made some of it up as I went along.
I LOVED this little detail on the either side of the gate. It looked to be some sort of (maybe) globe of the earth that was being held up by flourishes of some sort and the sun above it with some sort of draping hanging from the top. It was so much fun to build.
The sad part for me (like all other students) I didn't have the time I would have wanted to work on this. I'm thinking I'm gonna redo this someday just for the hell of it. But mostly because I now know better methods for creating the shapes and pieces.
