The latest in the digital urban tutorial series is available as a downloadable .PDF, it looks at exploring applications for physics engines in urban modelling, the first step of which is a series of techniques to introduce gravity and mass to urban models. We produced a tutorial back in 2009 using ‘Reactor’,…
Last week we covered creating ‘day trails’ in Photoshop using the technique in Astrophotography known as ‘star trails’. Today we take the same technique and use it to create a view of city activity at night. You will need: 1 x Timelapse System, you can use a simple webcam as…
Creating star trails is a well known technique in Astrophotography and the same technique can be used to create trails of activity during the day. The results are both unique and potentially useful to identify heavily used routes or flows in urban areas. You will need: 1 x Timelapse System,…
3D Max Balls in the City from digitalurban on Vimeo. Music by Portoponte The movie above is surprisingly easy to make, the following tutorial is aimed at creating a series of bouncing balls in a cityscape using Reactor in 3D Studio Max. We covered the building of the cityscape in…
TimeLapse is an iPhone app that automates the operation of the iPhone’s camera to help create time lapse photo sequences. TimeLapse stores the photos in the iPhone photo library so you can easily download them to your computer and create a movie using applications such as Apple QuickTime Pro, Windows…
Our previous tutorial on setting up a Waterproof webcam timelaspe system via a torch and USB extension leads also lends itself to capturing star trails or city activity at night. Being Central London based light pollution filters out the stars to a large extent but with very little effort some…
Over the past few months we have been running views of the city created from a webcam mounted on our roof looking over the London skyline from Camden Town. The setup, although remarkably simple, is capable of capturing high definition timelapse movies at a fraction of the cost of off…
A city can be constructed using 3D Studio Max in under 5 minutes using the Greeble Plugin and a few simple steps. In the second part of our series on Greebling a City we take a look at creating the cityscape itself. If your new to Greeble take a look…
Greebles became a core part of our ‘Fantasy Architecture City‘ a few years back – allowing details to be added to buildings quickly and easily. In a new series of posts we thought we would provide a walk through of how to quickly and easily create your own city using…
Using either our GMapCreator or any other Google Mapping application it is possible to create some stunning maps that would look good in either poster or large print format. This tutorial provides a simple method to carry out multiple screen grabs and image stitching to create high resolution output from…
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