An article on milimet.com discusses Foster + Partners entry into the design for a masterplan in Sofia, Bulgaria. Our work is featured heavily and also displayed integrally as part of a wider presentation.

An article also appears on e-architect.co.uk containg the same visuals and animation.

As a modern day 3D artist I need to mix both the left and right sides of the brain. It might have seemed inconceivable twenty years ago that maths and computer coding would play such a large of modern day art and illustration.
I’ve been experimenting with papervision and 3D Flash recently, and while most action script guru’s are trying to get their heads around 3D I’m coming from the other side and blinking my weary eyes at action script. No fear, there is some progress in a straightforward application of interactivity on a architectural project that is geometrically pure, the Palace of Peace.

Here is the short aerial camera video that we (the meshroom) completed for the Foster and Partners Sofia masterplan competition this year. The job was completed in 3DStudio Max and VRay and initially rendered as still images at 8K pixels wide. We rendered them this large as they were going to be printed at an obscenely large scale. My colleague Dimitar was in Sofia when the exhibition was on and had a chance to see the final images printed out this size. The sunset image is shown at the end of the video.

I’m posting this video which was completed quite a while ago now, back during the development of the Foster Yatch.This was completed so that Yacht Plus could use it in their show at the Monaco boat show in Monte Carlo, France.

All the work was created in 3Ds Max and rendered in Vray using Dreamscape.  The post production was carried out in Combustion and the editing in Premiere. That’s enough technical jargon for now, you get the idea.

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And re-edited.