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BWI Access

Glen Loyd — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:04:00 GMT

The proposed improvements to the Baltimore/Washington International Airport parking garage, drop-off/pick-up, ped bridges, and people mover were pretty obvious. There was also an alternate option that did not include the people mover (our lovely Incentro vehicle modeled by Bobby Valentine!). All renders were scanline from 3ds Max 4 with minimal mapping. The dirt, reflections and some of the shadows were touched up in Photoshop. The cars on the new upper deck were a mix of cut images and 3D. 10 inch wide stripes were alos in fashion then too.

William Natche Bridge

pbviz — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:06:43 GMT

These are always fun and a little rare. Every once in a while a client will send us a photograph of the completed project that we had done either s a proposal or early public involment work. It's even more fun when the shot is froma similar location. Below is the photo simulation we did for a proposal and the completed bridge several years later.

Interesting stuff.

1998

DV Artists: Bobby Valentine, Dave Thorp, Joe Nortnik (?), and Randy Lawrance (?).

VDOT: 895

pbviz — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:09:16 GMT

Back in the late 90's and early 2000's, VDOT was our "bread and butter." Lots of great projects through-out the state that kept many of us busy full time. From what i remember, this was about 80% Photoshop, which was pretty standard back at that time.

Hoback Junction Bridge Options

pbviz — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:08:46 GMT

Brrr! These photo simulations were a quick turnaround type project for a pursuit back in 2006. Randy was given several bridge options to model and render out (a total of 11) in a very short amount of time. It bugged him to death to not be able to spend the time to deatil these out. Even said, these turned out great. You'll have to ask Randy how he did the falling snow effect...

Original:

Option A:

Option B:

Option C:

Option D:

Harborside/Hudson Burgen

pbviz — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:14:47 GMT

DV Team: Chris Reynolds and Randy Lawrence

Location: New Jersey

Sotware: old

Existing Image:

Dragon's Gate Bridge

pbviz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:12:38 GMT

This Blast from the Past is interesting because of the information given to us to work with. For those of you who have had the pleasure of working with Scott Danielson, it's always interesting and fun. This particular project was a pursuit that PB Asia was going after. We developed several 3D renderings showing various options of the proposed PB design for a bridge from mainland China to Macau. Scott developed a series of sketches of the bridge incorporating a dragon as the main structure for the supsension part of he bridge. Below are the rendering and the sketches. Fun stuff!

Above: A renering of one of three options including the dragon heads and lotus leaves.

Above: an earlier version of the "Dragon heads" (with an appocolyptic sky) using plate steel.

Above: Scott's design detail sketch for the heads

Above: Scott's sketch of the full design.

St. Stephen's Church

pbviz — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:50:56 GMT

St. Stephen's Church: Kevin Gilson, Bob Valentine, Dave Thorp, Joe Nortnik, Ryan Sander, Glen Loyd, and Jason Brummett.

The above images are actually a few stills from the interior animation our group did way back. Getting the "frescos" to map correctly on the curved surfaces was a challange back then. It gave us some insight into what Michelangelo might have gone through (except not on our backs by candle light and we have Crtl+Z).

The final sequences were all composited together into a video piece that was used to build financing and approaval from the congregation.

COTA LRT Study

pbviz — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:14:30 GMT

Ryan Sander, Doug Villars, and Kevin Gilson (2002)

The COTA (Central Ohio Transit Authority) LRT Study included 4 photo simulations showing proposed street car routes through downtown Columbus, Ohio. This one in particular generated lots of enthusiasm with its TOD spin showing a proposed Nordstrom's.

Triangle Transit Autority: Wye Station

pbviz — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:57:19 GMT

Back in 2000 and 2001 our group work on several photo simualtions and animations for the Triangle Transit Authority in Raleigh, NC. The Wye Station (shown) was one of the last one we worked on for the visualization task.

Existing

Proposed

Newport News ship building facility

Glen Loyd — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:14:32 GMT

Here are a couple of renderings used in the Newport News shipyard kyosk. Ryan Sander build and rendered the content and Marc Steuben put it all together in an interactive format that was all placed in an information kyosk at the visitor's center. I can't recall if this was scanline, radiosity, or what. Great work, though!

555 4th Street

Glen Loyd — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:32:41 GMT

Ah. The days when showing a wireframe was cool.

Back in early 2002 we did some renderings/photo sims that were used in a video for Joe Cassidy Construction to secure financing on their project. Credits due to Jason Brummit, Dave Thorp, Kevin Gilson, Ken Seaverns, and Joe Nortnik.

Dry Creek Trail: City of Wesminister

pbviz — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:57:28 GMT

Another great work by the legendary Randy Lawrence. The project was a series of sims showing redevelopment and improvements in certain areas within the City of Westminister, CO. Randy gave special attention to the widened creek and the mowed grass. Definitely one form the Viz "Hall of Fame."

Before condition:

Proposed new park space:

No 7 Line Station

pbviz — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:00:30 GMT

Oh, the fun. This above original image was created by Brandon Young for the proposed No 7 Line station. A very nice model with the favorite "cut-away" view. I want to say this was Max 6 (at least the time frame is roughly there) with scan line and RPCs. Nice work!

A few years lter, as we were developing annoglyph stereo images, Ryan Sander used the same model to create the above image (non-stereo rendering) and the annoglyph image below:

If you happen have some red/blue 3D glasses handy, pop 'em on and enjoy! THis and several other images were viewed at last year's Autodesk University and printed on a card that had detachable 3D glasses on it. Cool stuff.

DART, Farmers Branch Station

Glen Loyd — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:04:13 GMT

This one goes back to 1999 as a PB bid on a proposed line extention of the DART network.

Existing site (above)

Proposed condition (above)

The final was an animated photosim with the train pulling up to the station. One of our first TOD projects. Good old scan line rendering in MAX 4 with some ray traced reflections/shadows.

Antelope Valley

Glen Loyd — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:34:59 GMT

Antelope Valley was a proposed roadway in Lincoln, Nebraska. Some of the most memorable aspects about this project was that the client kept requesting more "red pick-ups" for every view. The reason was that Lincoln is where the University of Nebraska resides. Randy Lawrence is an alumni form Colorado University (rival of the Huskers), so he secretly Photoshoped in CU bumperstickers and license plates on several of the cars in the sims. Too funny.

DV artists (for this view): Doug Villars, Joe Nortnik, Randy Lawrence, and Glen Loyd.

Tycom Cable Station

Glen Loyd — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:50:41 GMT

Ah. The good ol' days before GI. Althought I was slghtly involved in this project, I do remember that the entire scene file was lit with a ton of standard lights with fall-offs all set up. Bobby Valentine was the power behind this effort and produced some great renderings and animations. With all the raytraced reflections and refractions, you can imagine that the render times were way up there.

Roseville Pedestrian Bride

pbviz — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:28:44 GMT

Once again I had to stretch my memory to recall the detials on this one. I belive the team was Rod Walker and John Clapp. The project was a photo simulation of a ped bridge over a rail yard. Although the time codes on the files are only a few years ago, I'm prett sure this was done sometime mid 1999. I think we were using Max 4 at the time for the model and viewmatch and Photoshop 5? Nice work guys!

Existing:

Lambert Airport

Glen Loyd — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:51:09 GMT

DV Artists: Jason Brummet, Kevin Gilson, Ryan Sander, Brandon Young, and Glen Loyd

Software: 3DS Max, Forest Pro, Photoshop

If memory serves, this was for a pursuit that PB was going after. Can't recall the outcome either but nice image!

Marmaray Tunnel

Glen Loyd — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:14:28 GMT

DV Artists: Mark Kauffman and Josh Jones

Another PB pursuit that was a series of animations showing how the tunnel sections would be floated out and lowered into place. All scanline rendering with a "faked" caustic effect.

Belmar (Teller Street)

Glen Loyd — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:55:02 GMT

Created to assist with presales for Continuum Partners, LLC in their upcoming development, a series of renderings and animations were created as one of PB's first stabs at the Arch Viz business. Besides the goofy looking people and cars, this rending looks pretty close to the finished street scape.

Sound Transit Othello Station

Glen Loyd — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:32:33 GMT

This is a photo simulation piece of several animation the Denver group did back in 2001. I'm pretty sure that it was scan line with ray-traced shadows/reflections. Yes, those are RPCs. The main DV artist on this view was Ryan Sander. Probably the best of the collection.