Istanbul Seaport by Squint Opera

James Shaw published a making-of the Istanbul Seaport project by Squint Opera on his blog back in January, and it was a great read… especially with the breakdown videos attached to it. I rarely dealt with such scale and never in motion, so I was fascinated by the result and intrigued about the process behind the scenes that took place to get this done. How does one (a team actually) get started with this… manage it… and so on. I asked James Shaw & Nicholas Taylor about it, and they kindly offered their valuable insight.

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Making of Loft

Matheus Passos created the Loft scene as a personal project inspired by the works of MIMO Studio and Insomia Architects from Poland in tandem with the 2011 Forum Summary – as an entry for it. He did a great job on this one, managing to achieve high levels of realism… especially in the detail shot you see up above. Read on as Matheus shares more information about his workflow in the creation of this scene.

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