Valle Crucis Abbey - 15th C by virtuallyhistorical
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This is the third and final exterior in a series we're doing for a reconstruction of Valle Crucis Abbey near Llangollen in North Wales. This time two hundred years later than the first when the abbey was close to being desolved by Henry VIII.
As promised, here's a link to the teaser animation. It's still work in progress and is a rather large MPEG-4 QuickTime at 40 mb. (The PAL version is over 250 mb).
http://www.arc.ac/ARCAnim4.htm
Once again, most of the work here is done by my partner in time, Phurst. I lit the scene using 7 lights and did some Photoshop work.
Hope you enjoy,
Mak & Pete
Comments (13)
Moebius87
Beautiful work. Even for a bright day like this, I find that the shadows are still a bit too sharp, but this is still brilliant. :o)
kenmo
Wow...this is excellent...
raymondsalter
Great going thier love the way you have lit it.
SeanDay
Excellent render and excellent anim.
SMDE
the shadows seem to bee a bit too dark. in addition, if it should be the final render I woukd rerender it with higher FSAA level. beside this minor critism good job you done here !!!
kromekat
The project is looking great Mak! - just watched the teaser - how did you reproduce the surrounding valley landscape? - very cool! :D
virtuallyhistorical
Thanks Adam, thanks all. We used digital terrain and mapping from GetMapping, then added trees and objects under where buildings were. For the terrain of other periods it was a case of manipulating the aerial photo in Photoshop. If/when we get to do it for real - and we should know by the end of March - there's a lot more more I would do, such as remove the 'flat' trees that appear under the 3D ones. We've also done our first moving character in there using InterPoser. Unfortunaelty the costume we used (PhilC's) didn't handle the animation too well and thighs appear through the monk's habit. We're working on making our own animatable but that's a ways off yet. Thanks again. Mak
strata
I must add after seeing the animation, you are doing a great and important job here. Have you had any response from any historical institution? VOTE! :)) Strata
virtuallyhistorical
Thanks Strata. The animation and stills are been used by Llangollen Museum/Cadw (Welsh side of English Heritage) for a Heritage Lottery Fund bid to put in a virtual tour at the site. We're also working with Dr David Mason and the Chester Archaeology Society as well as waiting to hear from Shropshire County Council about a project with them. There are a few other things on the virtual horizon and we were recently contacted by Time Team. Fingers crossed! Mak
LillianaSapphire
congrats on getting contacted by time team, i watch that show! cool pic, nice lighting, however i do agree the shadows could be softer.
danob
Beautiful atmosphere and light
dcclxxvii
The effect of the shadows is great.
Odessey
Love what you are doing here in your gallery , and your subject matter is with the up most taste and quality , i realize this is a rather late post but... i do look forward to your newer projects !