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Hi folks,

This animation of a future car/bicycle parking for the railway station Wijchen (The Netherlands) was made for a tender and was won by the client (BAM Infra).
The renderings are done with the OctaneRender plugin for Archicad.
Due to the short deadline for modelling and high number of frames needed for the animation, the rendering quality of OctaneRender chosen is less then could be, but it turned out to be sufficient to do the job



In photoreal visuals I often add realistic 2D people in postproduction to keep the realistic touch. I could have used billboards in the animation, but in this project the billboard people imo were no option because sitting people are hard to place for camera changing angles.
For animation it is hard to find good quality realistic 3D people sitting.
So I chose for less quality artificial 3d people sitting down to tell the story and tried to avoid closeup camera.
I also tried to give the viewer a feeling of crawling into a maquette instead of a real world animation by starting the video with the maquette look turntable.

Anyway, the project succeeded.
Cheers,

A very nice and informative video for a client. How long did it take to model and render it out? If this is not too much to ask: how do you estimate (rather work time than money) your 3D work for such videos? Let's assume a client asks for 1 minuter video with some fly through at this quality. How much time do you take for valuation of your work?

Hi Smicha,

The project took me 3 weeks to finish (visuals HR with postproduction and 1080p animation)
I'll PM you with details.
Cheers,