Oh go on, then.

My head is fizzing with too much Sketchup right now.

Do you want me to look at that FCW for you to sort out that edge on the grass?

I've been working long days on all the Sketchup models I will need to do the Structures for part 2, and I've almost finished bar a few details. Here are a few samples for the record.

Arctic structures

Desert structures

Tropical/jungle structures

As you can probably tell the sculpting is a matter of working out the basic outline and the shadows so that I get them right in the final drawing, so some things are more detailed while others are merely blocks.

From here I export 3 sheets from each one - the lines, the shading and the shadows all separate, then import them into Affinity Photo, where I will do the actual painting.

Yes, I've seen your page before.

Very impressive :)

I'm not so much into animation, having set a PC on fire one night a few years back when something went wrong on an 18 hour render. A person has to sleep eventually! That was the one I threw out of the window before it set the rest of the flat on fire.

I keep a fire extinguisher in the room these days ;)

It's looking pretty cool, Jim :)

I think you might have an unexpected glow effect, or something similar set on the sheet with the second level of grass on it. That would be what is causing that darker line between the different levels of grass. If you haven't got anything like that I would be interested in seeing what you do have on that sheet.

Thank you, Farsight :)

Those are called varicolour symbols, and are generated after the original colour image by the addition of a second png file that denotes the areas that will change colour. If you look through the folders of artwork for the Mike Schley style you will see them. They look like ghost images of the original. These tend to be later additions to a symbol set. The fact that part 1 had varicolour structures was down to Ralf Schemmann generating the necessary files once I handed the set over to him.

I really can't say if there will be time to do more for part 2. That depends a lot on what Ralf has got on his plate in the last fortnight of October ;)