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Papervision: 2008 The Year of the 3D Web?

By 3D Modelling, Flash, Papervision

3D plugins, browsers and languages come and go, Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) rode a wave of hype only to suffer as a result of being before its time. Viewpoint, our personal favorite of a few years ago, rode a similar wave attracting a strong community of developers before rather foolishly locking them out unless they purchased a license key and now we have Papervision.

Papervision is different, it has potential and may indeed bring to fruition the vision of a 3D Web that went before it in the VRML days. The key to Papervision is its open source nature and its integration with Flash, a plugin that to be honest is no longer a plugin but an essential component of many websites

The movie below showcases Papervision to date:

The engine entered public beta in July 2007 with a number of tutorials and demos emerging online at an ever increasing pace.

The focus on Flash is to be welcomed, perhaps 2008 will be the year of the 3D Web?

See the Papervision Wiki for full details, tutorials and demos.

Dec 29
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Speed Painting a City in Photoshop CS3

By Matte Painting, Photoshop

Matte paintings are used to create “virtual sets” and “digital backlots”. They can be used to create entire new sets, or to extend portions of an existing set. Traditional matte painting is done optically, by painting on top of a piece of glass to be composited with the original footage (Wikipedia).

The movie embedded below illustrates the process of painting a city background in Photoshop CS3, timelapsed over 6 minutes it provides an interesting insight into creating digital cityscapes:

Credit for the movie goes to titoff77, his work is inspired by Dylon Cole (Dylon’s site is well worth a look, especially the Daredevil section for urban images.)

Dec 29
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3D Visualisation: A Year Using Blender

By 3D Modelling, Blender

When your covering architectural renderings from the leading design studios creating your own 3D models can be slightly intimidating. It is well worth remembering that free 3D modelling software such as Google SketchUp or Blender – the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems – allows anyone from the professional to the hobbyist to create models.

As such we intend to feature more movies from the general public over the next few months, kicking off with a look back by Baselinegenerator at his first year using Blender:

In some ways we like these movies more than the output of the high end studios with their access to render farms and the latest software. Midway through Baseline’s movie the urban street flooding is impressive and a testament to open source modelling software.

We intend to cover more on Blender in future posts.

Dec 29
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3D Visualisation: A Year Using Blender

By 3D Modelling, Blender

When your covering architectural renderings from the leading design studios creating your own 3D models can be slightly intimidating. It is well worth remembering that free 3D modelling software such as Google SketchUp or Blender – the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems – allows anyone from the professional to the hobbyist to create models.

As such we intend to feature more movies from the general public over the next few months, kicking off with a look back by Baselinegenerator at his first year using Blender:

In some ways we like these movies more than the output of the high end studios with their access to render farms and the latest software. Midway through Baseline’s movie the urban street flooding is impressive and a testament to open source modelling software.

We intend to cover more on Blender in future posts.

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