The Berlin Wall variations
The second part of the Berlin Wall series includes three network variations. Once again, Badi_Dea set up the base model and network flags and I added the texture variations from my own photos. Each wall texture is 1536×2304 and includes diffuse, normal, and alpha maps. Normal-mapping the exposed ribar section proved challenging but I’m happy with the result.
1. The Berlin Wall 2 (graffiti front, plain back)
2. The Berlin Wall 3 (exposed ribar front, graffiti back)
3. The Berlin Wall 4 (graffiti front and back)
In the 80s, the Berlin wall was like a cast on a broken arm that needed to get cut off. Street artists from the West started to cover it in graffiti. After the Wall "came down" on the night of November 9th, 1989, the spray cans really started flow, and Berliners even began to chip away at it with hammers and picks. Pieces of the wall with bits of colored paint were hawked as souvenirs. For me, and I think for many others, there is something synonymous about the Berlin Wall and Graffiti. What the state authorities may have called vandalism, can be more aptly described as social protest against injustice. Today at the Memorial at Bernauer Straße, we can walk freely back and forth over the former border, weaving our way through cracks in the wall as we go, remembering the struggle it took to bring it down.
