This is a short film made by just one guy in his spare time. There's no plot, it's just a collection of REALLY HIGH FIDELITY rendered scenes, mostly of empty buildings and things. It's just very pretty and looks almost indistinguishable from reality. (Granted, this is easier since it's just buildings and not people, but it's still impressive for one guy.)

I personally like it a lot because I have to do lots of rendering for classes and I can see the sheer amount of work that the guy put into it. The craft, I guess. If you're into that sort of thing you should give it a watch.

http://vimeo.com/channels/hd#7809605

it's a great video.

I personally like it a lot because I have to do lots of rendering for classes and I can see the sheer amount of work that the guy put into it. The craft, I guess. If you're into that sort of thing you should give it a watch.

you do 3d stuff? please post them in graphic arts. we need some more 3d things over there! i'll also give you crits.

anyway, this video is insane, the lighting is just so good. really really great work.

I will at some point, but it's mostly work that I have to do for my arch studio classes and is nothing special. But if I make something cool this semester, I'll post up some things. (PROCESS THREAD YESSSSS)

Also hahaha earlchip I see you freudian slipped architectural PHOTOGRAPHY. it really does look like it was filmed / pictures taken with a camera, doesn't it! It's crazy.

also yeah i think it is the Bilbao, it's a Frank Gehry work for sure, but I'm not certain which one it is. I'm not that big of a Gehry fan - I mean, I get why he's considered great and I can respect his work, but I'm just not very interested in it. His stuff is too in-your-face, I like more subtle stuff.

Anyway.

yeah it was on the vimeo picks like 2 weeks ago. jeeezz ed.

i think it took him almost a year? i don't recall where i read that but that's what i remember.

yeah i actually was bothered by the constant depth of field changing too. the main reason he used it is to push the impression that it's really "realistic" (without depth of field it wouldn't have looked real at all) but yeah, at one point in the video he does it every 2 seconds and it's annoying.

also earlchip are you an architecture student??? what is your pretentiousness level from 1 to 10
don't get me wrong, i think a lot of gehry's buildings look cool, but i feel like that's most of the appeal. a spectacle. he doesn't take people or environmental uses into account unlike say, frank lloyd wright.