Building a 3D city can take time and sometimes an off the shelf solution is the best option for moving a project forward. As such the City Kit by GreyScaleGorilla is well with a look. Running in Cinema 4D the kits allows the rapid construction of cityscapes with a range of customisation options, the movie embedded below provides a good overview:
At $149 CityKit is well worth a look, head over to http://greyscalegorilla.com/citykit/ for full details.
Below is a stop-motion animation captured in Moscow, it lasts for 1 minute 30 seconds and consists of 1072 images. You see only feet in the clip with images captured at the level of the human eye. Frames were prepared by hand and all the scenes were shot in Moscow, even the beach scene was shot in the capital, next to the Moskva River:
Augmented reality (AR) applications have the potential to change the city experience by overlaying the digital information on the physical environment. Yujin Yin a student on the MA Digital Media at Gildsmiths Univversity of London asks, what is the ‘identity’ they deliver for objects and spaces within the city? Does the augmentation of the city truly enhance our experience of urban life? These questions are explored via an augmented reality travel book:
The travel guidebook, aims at achieving possibilities of augmenting the urban space with a very personal point of view (perception) and memories (narratives). Yujin notes that this approach might tackle the institutionalised and commercialized AR technologies that dominate the current market.
Author: Yujin Yun
Technical Coordinator: Moon Jung Hyun
3D Designer: Sam Oh
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981: