Experimenting and finally ready to start

So I got the idea now, but to be able to make this won't be easy. The vines would be the hardest part for me to do, since I never did something similar before and have no idea how am I suppose to do it. After talking to teachers about it and asking how they would do it, and by hearing them saying how hard that is to do really encouraged me to try harder and succeed without failing.

Online source is always great, I went and looked for an easy way to do the vines in Maya, and lucky to me I find  a step by step tutorial. After practising a lot I slowly got hang of it.

I started to make the buildings, slowly and painfully I finally finished them.

The first vine I made wraps around the clock tower, after lots of tweaking for the vine to go around the building, I wanted the vine to also change colour when is growing out, from green to brown. I am really proud of myself that I didn't go online help or ask, I find this way myself after playing around with the hypershade.

First to achieve the colour changing, I went on Photoshop and painted lots of different greens and browns and made them into a sequence, and applied this to the vine, but to my surprise the green changes too quick and I would have to paint way more to get what I wanted. Frustrated and annoyed I stare at the screen wonder what should I do. Then I notice the colour gain tab at the bottom, and clicked on it and played around with the options, and the texture of the vine started to change, and so I tried to have key frames for the colour gain, and it worked.

After the first vine is made, the rest of the vines are pretty much the same thing, just really time consuming.