Siggraph 2006 - Proceedural Modeling in King Kong

A quick video of the procedural modeling they used in the recreation of 1933 New York City. To create the 100,000+ unique building they devised a procedural (automated) modeling system in Maya to atomatically generate building massing from a preset vocabulary (office building, brownstone, etc.) as well as texturing and rendering. The shadows were baked in later.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• procedural
• modeling
• maya
• siggraph
• weta
• king
• kong
• special
• effects
• architecture
• 3d
• manhattan
• new
• york

[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.

[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.

[honeyharsh]

That's Chris White speaking for

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

[buffyguy10]

awsome