City 17 and the AR Drone 2

Andy — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:25:00 +0000

While planning out some future research in the office this morning the conversation turned to low cost drones with 720p recording. The movie below provides a glimpse of a possible future purchase – the Parrot AR Drone 2:

The cityscape in the movie above, along with the context of the drone, does of course draw up comparisons with the monitors in City 17. Our previous look at the architecture of City 17 provides a glimpse of them hovering over the city:

We don’t wish to paint an overly dystopian future of unmanned drones watching our every move, but to be honest it is looking like they will be increasingly pervasive in coming years.
With that cheery thought, we should have a couple of the units flying around CASA soon, linked to some wider modelling and sensing work….

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City 17

Andy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:36:00 +0000

Loosely based on the computer game Half Life 2, “City 17” by Daniel Eggert tells the story of a guy who finds himself in a city that isn’t what it used be:

City 17 from Daniel Eggert on Vimeo.

For those who are not familiar with the architecture of City 17, we produced a short movie a few years ago:
Daniel produced the original clip for film school as his final project. It was shot it entirely on location in Cologne/Germany using the Canon XL1. The CG elements were taken from the computer game “Half Life 2” by Valve Software and animated in 3D Studio Max with a final render with mental ray. Compositing and color grading was done using Combustion and editing was via in Adobe Premiere.

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