We have run through the process and it will take no more than 5 minutes to place a immersive panoramic sphere into Google Earth. The tutorial should take in no more than 3 simple steps and will (fingers crossed) be available on Monday. If your new to this, and many people will be as it doesn’t seem to of been picked up by the Google Earth community at the moment (i think its kind of neat personally (?)) then the two preview movies are below..

Panoramas Embeded within a Building

General Concept

It will also of course be free as its just a concept and that what this blogs all about.. sharing concepts and ideas.

Modelling the urban environment holds its difficulties but at least you often have a series of images/shapes to base your model on. Picked up from CGarchitect is a fascinating tutorial by Daarken on painting urban images in Photoshop.

Daarken’s tutorial provides a step-by-step walkthrough of creating the scene from starting with a blank canvas to ending up with the finished image.

Of note is the starting point of empty document, no starting image or reference point, just a series of brush strokes and techniques to produce a image which approaches photorealisim.