Kenneth_F_Massey Kenneth F. Massey kmassey 3d modeling, Digital Painting, Photorealistic painting with traditional media (oil, acrylic, tempera Location: Plano, USA Language(s):
English, Italian, Spanish Member Since: December 2008 Last Updated: 16 March 2009 Portfolio Views: 7704 Chosen as Favorite: 3
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LA Live and Downtown LA Modeling Process 3ds max, combustion, Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro, VRay December 2008
I created over 12,500 buildings to build a 3d model of downtown Los Angeles in 3 weeks. Used satellite image from Google Earth, traced the city with rectangles, used trigonometry to derive height of buildings based on shadows, obtained heights of buildings higher than 50 meters from Internet, used 74 existing models from Google Earth and re-textured them. Created 286,000 tetrahedrons with self-illum material for lights. Used scripts to place them fast.
Modeling: Ken Massey and Google Earth
Lighting: Brian Fannin
Ghost Trails: William Yankey
Combustion: Reed Pittman
Architectural Design: Gensler Architects
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