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Published: 2012-07-23 17:05:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 8296; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 524
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Done in Blender, internal rendered. You can see this animated here : [link]Related content
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please bro, how did you do theΒ lights on the buildings! im pretty sure you didnt light each one. ive tried an array with an emit plane behind it subdivided and then random squares deleted out to make a random look but it didnt turn out that well
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All the windows are in fact flat. The geometry isn't that complicated. The windows are "procedural", it's made randomly using 3 textures.
First texture : windows lights off ( www.cgtextures.com/texview.php⦠)
Second texture : Blender cloud texture, Cell noise and set as stencil so it acts like a mask.
Third texture : windows lights on ( www.cgtextures.com/texview.php⦠)
I know it's not easy to get so I made you a quick blend file if you want to see it in action. Download it here :
www.dropbox.com/sh/5bgtfxrh7pkβ¦
I hope this will help.
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Thanks tom, you have again taught me something new about stencils and furthered my knowledge!
thanks for taking the time to make a blend file too. - mark
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I'm curious: In designing were you influenced at all by the movie Blade Runner? It reminds me a little of that.
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Yes, I just love Blade Runner. True out-of-time source of inspiration.
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Incidentally, much as I love this image and the associated animation, I disagree with this concept of future cities. I suspect that technologies not yet existing will put an end to the need to concentrate people and buildings and machines this way. Indeed such a city may be abandoned because it's uninhabitable, and people may disperse and live much as they did a couple of centuries ago, except that they will have computers, microwaves, electric cars etc.
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This is an interesting point of view and you're probably right, but I think that regardless of the real needs of people, there will always be big huge, useless and polluted cities. In my opinion, insanely huge cities with crazy architecture has always been mankind's way to show to the rest of the world its power and balls, whether it's in great contries of freedom and justice or poor dictatorships. (Manhattan, London's new architectural projects, Hong kong, Dubai, Astana in Kazakhstan, etc..). Man's eccentricity will unfortunatelly keep leading the way of how major cities will be shaped tomorrow, the surroundings will probably be wiser. 
But this is only my opinion.
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You may well be right. Cities outside the US seem to be building taller and taller, for no good economic reason, but just in imitation of what we were doing decades ago, and as an exercise in penile supremacy...
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Like a picture of an actual futuristic city! The blur effects on the ship to the top left corner, the subtle glows of the neon signs and the various room lights on the building are dispersed in a random pattern.
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Awesome animation. And I mean that literally, not in the overworked sense of the word, meaning something like "cool". It really does inspire a sense of awe.
Hoping to see a lot more from you
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Wow!!!! great render and STUNNING ANIMATION !!!!!
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