Hey everyone,
Finished my castle. And thanks Grant for another epic course!
(Can you find the Pleiades? They appeared by chance - a random generator has built them)
I have also played with some techiques to build the scene.
Sky and sea are Geometry nodes.
Most textures are either generated (like walls) or have a lot of generated changes: roofs, rocks and so on. And yes, water makes the bottom lines of rocks and boat wet
(Painted texture on the chimney adds smoke and brick holes depending on color channel)
I experimented with different tree techniques. The dead three and the pines are made after the course, the whining willow is a grease pencil tree (from the 2.8 Mike’s course), and the bushy oak is a cheaty Saple Tree add-on.