Siggraph 2006 - Proceedural Modeling in King Kong

[archislave]

I'd have gotten more but the attendant made me stop filming. It was a great presentation. I saw them in 2004 when LOTR was the big thing. The house was packed.

[honeyharsh]

That's Chris White speaking for

KK. He came to melbourne aswell for conducting the seminar and he did great!

[archislave]

The seminar was pretty cool. I did't get to record very much of it. WETA completely rebuild 1930's Manhattan, first by modeling the hero buildings in detail, then all the thousands of smaller buildings as low-poly representations, superimposing old aerial photos of the period to get their basic massing. Then they used this proceedural modeling system to automatically "design" the architecture with a brownstone vocabulary of elements.

[buffyguy10]

awsome