1825 Boston Road. Jess Johnson October 23, 2008 Midterm review

Concept To show an architectural visualization of the changes in a specific area of south Bronx that is occurring due to urban development.

Users and Sponsors Users and Audience SoBRO Community that would be impacted by changes Sponsors SoBRO

Previous Ideas Summer Work Realism, details, and lighting Educational Animation Find a way to create a useful animation for schools Visual Narrative Various locations - show a simple narrative such as the changes to a location from weather, etc.

Precedents Paul Debevec’s “The Parthenon” Architectural renderings, Realism, 3D Animation, Visual Narrative “Cars” Environments, 3D Animation SoBRO Community development, Housing Moving Massachusetts Forward - Stopping 40B Community development, Housing

New Precedents (11/16) About Forge! - website that provides communities resources to get involved in their community. Computer Visualizations of Forest Cover Change: Human Impacts n Northeastern Kansas and Natural Disturbance in Yellowstone National Park: paper which explores the changes to environments and ways to visualize them.

New Domains Urban Architecture 3D Visualizations Grassroots information dissemination Community Activism

Thesis Design Questions Is Maya the best way to achieve the most realistic rendering? Is there another program to consider? Is this the best way to show the changes and transformations to an area?

Proof of Concept Westford Parish Center –Recreate the building in Maya to prove modeling, lighting, texturing skills. –Change the location to Westford from Bronx to a more interesting location and building. –Environment test - time lapse for sky, test out possbilities with the environment. Possibly use 3D trees from Maya as a placeholder - get Vue program for environment creation. –Practice and figure out problems with proof of concept model in preparation for next semester. –-Final result - animation that shows the completed model, time lapse sky? Building should rotate to show the modeling.

New Developments Possible shift in direction with SoBRO? May switch organizations Proof of concept location changes to a more interesting building, will also be able to load final image to google earth - possibly model as a sketchup file as a test.

Prototype Walk Through

Schedule continue modeling the building and environment get better textures, time lapse sky model and texture model and texture, prepare for final presentations.