hey.. check out the mini Honolulu, Hawaii. It makes me wan’na drive my mini-bmw Hot Wheel through town!
I am always impressed when David Irick, Hi-Tech Urban Solutions, put’s out renderings. He recently updated the website for his company and he’s done a fine job I think.
sneak peak:
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Do you think David would tell us how he created the “mini” effect? What tools were used?
Posted 09 Mar 2009 at 5:44 pm ¶I sent an email to see if he would enlighten us.
Posted 09 Mar 2009 at 8:58 pm ¶Sure. This image was made possible by the Precision Lightworks Nverse MegaMap plugin in combination with Autodesk 3DS Max. The city scene was rendered out as a .png with an alpha channel. From there, I used a couple photoshop tools to make the drop shadow apply some color correction and blur the edges. That’s it.
Posted 09 Mar 2009 at 10:38 pm ¶I really wasn’t trying to get you to say you used my plug-in. But thanks!
Really, I was curious about where you learned of this effect, which is called tilt-shift, and is based on an actual photography technique for miniatures. Its use in urban scenes has been discussed in the Digital Urban blog (http://digitalurban.com). Look for “tilt-shift”. Digital Urban posted about this video by Clark Vogeler (made from real photos), which is quite fun: http://vimeo.com/3537180.
I was curious whether you had found any good techniques for creating them. Does everything just naturally look shiny, or do you need to tweak the contrast in Photoshop to cause that?
Posted 13 Mar 2009 at 11:14 am ¶Post a Comment