Thursday, April 4, 2013

Movie update - People

To lively up the tower and to demonstrate scale, liberty of movement and transportation within the Cloud City, people are essential. We have therefore been experimenting with crowd simulations in mel script in combination with animated characters and character clips.

A short preview with just moving sprites:








Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Movie update - Modeling

So we are beginning to go into details with our first models and props, not to mention the actual architectural 3d model, while working on glitches with the camera movement and our crowd simulations and our character development.

One of these "detailed models", the super modern train, is part of our infrastructural development of Amman, the railway system!














Inspired by cutting edge railway technology and the German Next Generation Train in particular, we modeled a medium detail train that will be visible in our introductory shot.