For the Timeride, hundreds of houses were historically correctly replicated. The streets were populated with over 3000 figures that were specially developed and animated for this purpose.

Motion Capture

The experience is peppered with small special animations that loosen up the overall scene and tell small stories. These clips were recorded by actors in our Motion Capture Studio, retouched and finally assigned to the corresponding characters.

Photogrammetry

Half of the production team and additional cast models were equipped with historical costumes from ”Kostümfundus Babelsberg”, a pool of costumes. From coal seller to market woman to firefighter, all of the costumed people were transformed into 3D models via photogrammetry.

Charaktere

A whole range of characters was developed for TimeRide Cöln, some with a low geometry resolution for crowd animation, some with medium resolution for the special animations.

Making of

We have written a more comprehensive insight, which also shows more of the technology we used, for the architectural blog www.ronenbekerman.com. In the article we discuss in depth the challenges of modelling, texturing, shading, rendering and above all how the we created the mass of people.
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