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Entrance Hall of Riverford Castle
by Stephen Nispel

Entrance Hall

This is a view of the entrance hall of the castle keep owned by the player characters in my current campaign. This is the view from the front entrance of the castle, with the inner courtyard just on the other side of the stained-glass window. I will soon be making a (daytime) view of the entrance hall as seen from the opposite end of the hall.

This is perhaps the most complex composition I've made so far, combining a wide variety of textures and shapes to create everything from the column decorations to the patterned wood trim. To create a more realistic lighting pattern, each candle (both in and out of view) has its own individual light source (over 50 lights total). With so much detail and so many light sources, this view takes over 5 hours to completely render on a high-end Pentium 3.