WIP - Appartments in Belfast- Update 2007-10-26

CraigD

Absolutely incredible Paul!! I agree with Tom..you are the master of the stone/brick texture!!

Thanks for sharing, inspiring, and causing a very select few to actually drool!

Respect, indeed!

Cheers,

 - CraigD

marked001

damn...you definitely nailed these, paul! they look spot on with the photos..

Paul Russam

Here's a few images, again its WIP but it gives you an idea of what's to come:

This one's just a test but it looks good:

Edit:
Here's a link to MS's live maps that shows the area in 3D
http://maps.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.t2wykrgh4jwv_Malone%2CRoad.%20Belfast___&encType=1

solo

Like I said before...amazing, and i still itch to render this.

Paul Russam

Solo,
Thanks, its clocking in at 15.5mb at the mo.
I've got 3 major holes to fill in front of a couple of buildings and then if you want to have a go its yours. Should be about 2-3 days work but I think my boss wants me on something else for a couple of days, so it may be next week before It's renderable.

I forgot to mention that our office is the blue'y grey/terracotta building at the end of the terrace with the big bay windows. Tends to make the site visits a bit of a chore; all that traveling and such :ewink:

tinanne

Paul, just fabulous! Will you be doing an animation of this?

Paul Russam

Tina:
Thanks, I'm going to do a test one tonight, just up/down the road etc to see what the timing going to be like, I'll drop it on youtube later.

solo

Take your time, I can wait 'till next week. the size is no problem, I have a gmail mailbox. It would be an honor to render this. If possible could you mail textures seperate as well as in model as i would like to prepare the bumps and specular maps?

Thanks for the opertunity.

Paul Russam

Just out of interest what do you get when you click on the Live Maps link?

I'm not sure if it brings up the link or just a UK map

mateo soletic

Great work Paul.

Krisidious

quite nice Paul...

I'm not sure what what is old... just kidding but that's the point, new structures taking the que from the old in their form... but making better use of space or view.

and then there is your modeling... fantastic! the detail is superb... simple, elegant... as usual, great job.

Paul Russam

Hi, Kris
Thanks, This is just the existing streetscape, the proposal is still being designed. I've already done 5 versions from a simple block model to an 'almost' working design but until the design is signed off I cant really show it.

Paul Russam

Did an animation last night, 2700 Tiff's at 2048x1536 totalling 15.8Gb!! It only took about 9 hours.

I'm squeezing them into an avi at the moment and I'll post a version on YouTube in a bit.

Paul Russam

Here you go, one animation.
It has that damn shadow flashing as the camera passes through the shadow of the street lights but other than that its OK for a WIP.

Anim on YouTube

Gaieus

Very impressive, Paul! It's going to be exiting to see more deveoped phases (with the new ly designed stuff)

Daniel

amazing project, Paul

tinanne

Paul, that is really looking great. Do you animate on a path?

What do you have for equipment? Only 9hrs! Do you think there is an exporting time difference between .jpg and .png? How many scene tabs do you have for this project so far. I think I've realized that I need more scene tabs. When I made the scenes longer in Premiere, that was when things started getting jumpy. Do you think that's what it is?

still drooling

Paul Russam

Tina:
Dell Dimension 9200
Core Duo 6600 2.4GHz
2Gb Ram
WinXP + all updates/patches
Nvidia 9700GS
2 Dell 20.1" flat panels
1600x1200 resolution (3200x1200 desktop)

13 Scenes
Scene Transitions at 15sec's
Exported as Tiff's at 2048x1536
Frame rate at 15 f/s

Compiled in Premiere as per my tutorial:
Tutorial

My desktop:

not registered yet

Wow...Great work! Excellent textures and spot on details in the model. And you worked from photos and no plans...thats incredible!

I just watched your ani...great job! I hate what Youtube does to the clarity of uploaded content . I bet it looks unbelievable played directly on a computer
poster-Fella77

tinanne

Thanks for the info and the screen shot I think I went wrong with setting scene transitions to 8. I think I'll go higher next time.

I have
Mobo=Foxconn powered by Nvidia CS1XEM2AA
Processor= AMD64x2 dual-core 5400+
RAM= 4GB Ballistix
Video=MSI PCI Express, 512MB
Windows XP Pro SP2

There were 47 scenes
2048x1536 PNG
Frame rate at 15 F/S
It took about 24hrs to export from SU. Does that seem long or is that about normal?

Your tutorial helped me so much while I was developing the animation. I'm looking forward to the next steps {hint, hint}