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City in the Sky: 3D Max, V-Ray, Timelapse and After Effects

Andy — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:43:00 +0000

‘City in the sky’ is a concept about an imaginary tranquil oasis above the mega-developed and polluted city, where one can escape from the everyday noise and stress. It was developed as part of the ‘Megatropolis’ project, which started in London with few companies and artists, invited to create their own visions for the future mega-developed city. The metropolis depicted in the video is New York City because that’s where most of the production happened.While the overall ‘Megatropolis’ project didn’t reach a final stage, the presented concept grew into this architectural utopia.

The inspiring movie below is rendered with 3DSMAX and V-Ray. Additional footage and time-lapses shot with Canon5D MKII in New York City. Post&FX in AE:

City in the sky from Tsvetan T on Vimeo.

The end night shot is especially noteworthy…

Take a look at http://www.hrama.com/skycity/ for more info.

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City in a Book: Augmenting the CityEngine

Andy — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:39:00 +0000

Over the past few days we have been working on a series of techniques to visualise and augment procedural cities.

If you add in a model of a BenQ projector, the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation Handbook, a city within the CASA logo and a webcam you get the following augmented reality:

We are exploring this as part of our digital visualisation module on the MRes here in CASA, aiming to build in the latest research into the lectures. The combination of Lumion, 3DMax, Illustrator, CityEngine and AR is intriguing…

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ABM, SketchUp, ArcGIS and Lumion

Andy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Over the past few weeks we have been exploring exploring new methods and techniques for visualising data. Developed as part our Masters course in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation we are now looking into issues of scale, realtime rendering, rapid visualisation and 3D exhibition spaces.

Regular readers will know we have been exploring Unity due its interactive nature and ability to import various file types into its game engine (see Particles, Agents and Emergent Behaviour ). Unity is still an option but for rapid visualisation Lumion also offers distinct possibilities. The movie below details our first draft example of building an exhibition space (SketchUp), retexturing and adding various crowd/delegate models (3DMax) and the Twitter map (ArcGIS) using Lumion:

If Lumion offered a stand alone viewer rather than purely movie based output then it would be our engine of choice. As such it is currently a weigh up between Lumion and Unity, our Unity example is under development, we will post it soon as we can…

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Megalomania: City in Total Construction

Andy — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:17:00 +0000

Some city animations simply stand out – Megalomania is one of these stunning examples, perceiving the city in total construction. The built environment is explored as a labyrinth of architecture that is either unfinished, incomplete or broken. Megalomania is a response to the state of infrastructure and capital, evolving the appearance of progress into the sublime.

Constructed predominantly using 3d Studio Max and rendered with Vray. Organic movement sequences were originally filmed on a Canon 5D mkII, tracked in PF Track and developed in CG. Demolition created using Rayfire. All compositing done in Adobe After Effects, edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. Audio recorded and coordinated using Adobe Audition.

More information about the project at thoughtsnotthoughts.blogspot.com/

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Megalomania: City in Total Construction

Andy — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:17:00 +0000

More information about the project at thoughtsnotthoughts.blogspot.com/

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Rubika: Animated Urban Short for Canal +

Andy — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:21:00 +0000

Below is an amazing extract from a short named Rubika produced for “Le Laboratoire” (Canal +). The short was co-directed by Ludovic Habas and Claire Baudeanit with 6 classmates and Guillaume Plantevin, a 2D artist, who gave them the original idea and the universe.

Extract of Rubika ( Le laboratoire – Canal + ) from Ludovic HABAS on Vimeo.
We think the clip is simply stunning and to top it all below is a ‘making off’ detailing the character animation and a few insights into the building of the world:

Ludovic Habas – MAXscript making Of Rubika from Ludovic HABAS on Vimeo.

Inspiring work.

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Rubika: Animated Urban Short for Canal +

Andy — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:21:00 +0000

Ludovic Habas – MAXscript making Of Rubika from Ludovic HABAS on Vimeo.

Inspiring work.

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Polygon Graffiti

Andy — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:22:00 +0000

QNQ/AUJIK from Kyoto, Japan has used 3D Studio Max 2009, Vray 1.5 sp4, Real Flow 4, Syntheyes, After Effects, Premiere, a Canon HV30 and finally a Merlin Steadicam to create the movie below:

Polygon Graffiti from QNQ/AUJIK on Vimeo.
Rendering time came in at 50 hours running on a Intel Quad 3.5Ghz processor. It an impressive array of software and techniques, cumulating in a impressive clip.

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Polygon Graffiti

Andy — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:22:00 +0000

QNQ/AUJIK from Kyoto, Japan has used 3D Studio Max 2009, Vray 1.5 sp4, Real Flow 4, Syntheyes, After Effects, Premiere, a Canon HV30 and finally a Merlin Steadicam to create the movie below:

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Tiltshift, City and Robot – RenkeBot Lives

Andy — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:01:00 +0000

Tiltshift, 3D Max a city and robot, really whats not to like:

RenkeBot Lives- part2! from Matt Moses on Vimeo.
Created by Matt Moses the city backplates were shot with the Canon 7D and a Tilt Shift lens. Tilt shift lenses give it that “tiny town” look of small scale DOF. Matt built and textured the robot in 3dsmax, and rigged him using CAT – Rendered in Finalrender, composited in Combustion. All three shots took 3 days, including a day to build the robot.

Only only gripe – we wish is was a bit longer, really nicely done.

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