Finished Piece

Here's the final video. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to render the animated crowds, and a few other bits and bobs, but I'm working on that in my own time.

Test Render

I still need to model the stuff for the stage, but I'm just starting to light the scene now.

This is just a render lit by a HDRI sky, so only the sky and moon are lighting the scene, it's as if the lights are all turned off.

Some of the upper panels are reflecting way too strongly, and therefore adding glare as if it were daylight, but this is only a test render after all.

Another model update

Just adding another update to the model, which is done for the most part. All that's left to do on that is to add the stage content, a few details and features to break up the symmetry and help glue the venue together as a concert space, as well as modelling the outside of the venue.

More Crowds

Just thought I'd post another test using Massive, in which I placed several hundred agents on the geometry so far, with reasonable success.

Starting to build the model

I started to block out the mesh, I'll post some plans I followed shortly.



This is a starting point, I'll now be able to work on the details and variation. The stage will be the next section, followed by the outside of the venue.

Crowds

I'm very interested in Crowd simulations as an area of 3d/VFX. I have had some previous experience using the software Massive to create hundreds of human agents with Artificial Intelligence. I thought it would be a good idea to integrate crowd simulations in the Architecture Visualisation I'm producing.

Here's an example of the sort of thing I'd like to make on a smaller scale.



And here are a couple of tests I created with Massive for this project. This first one is a rough test of the agents, trying to get the right sort of crowd actors I want in my scene.



And this second is a rough composite I made of the agents over a photograph of the Globe found on Flickr.

Testing, Testing.

This blog has been created as a project development log for The University of Hertfordshire, Digital Animation programme.

The brief is to take one of a choice of landmarks, and re-develop them using modern materials and architecture styles, and assign a new purpose to the classic locations.

I initially wanted to turn the Tower Bridge in London into offices, and played on the idea of adding a roller coaster to run along its sides. This idea never got beyond an incomplete Matte Painting, as it was heading in a direction I wasn't pleased with.

Below is the incomplete concept, for the purpose record-keeping.


I then had the idea of the project I'd like to visually develop as my final one. I wanted to turn Shakespeare's Globe Theatre into a modern music concert venue. Here are a few photographs found on Flickr of the Globe Theatre as it stands today.



In upcoming posts, I plan on adding reference images of concert venues which I'll try and replicate and apply common characteristics to the Globe, as well as a few initial visual tests and concepts.