Transbay Transit Center - Cesar Pelli

[TheAllusionist]

What actually inspires me about this one is that the quality of renderings and animation for a job of this magnitude is poor enough that I could see myself getting a portion of big projects some day.

Takes a while to load animation, it is big, so open up the link and then open another window and look at the other sections like stills, etc. and then reply the animation when it is fully loaded, placing cursor towards bottom of image brings up flash controls.

Transbay Transit Center Animation

First off, huge model, so a lot of work was involved. Most of it looked like a SketchUp models, low poly, nothing really impressive modeling wise. Some cool work going from schematic to design development quality rendering levels in the animation, but it lacked consistency, like towards the end they scabbed on some earlier stuff that only had lines for streets etc. I am not a big fan of RPC or billboard people at photorealistic levels and having a jogger running the short distance of a sidewalk so that they are facing the camera is just really poor work when it happens all over.

Basically, so much territory was covered, I wouldn't want to take on such a huge task, but the quality was pretty poor. I was impressed with the ocean at the beginning with actual wakes for the boats, and all the city building models along with a good sky dome, I thought it was going to be pretty cool then it kind of just got monotonous. The renderings, the big rendering of the whole project looks good from a distance, close ups not so much. Some of the other renderings have a cool design presentation NPR style.

The building form from a distance is fine and the axial layout of the site is cool when considering how prime the real estate is here, but I feel the project such as the renderings all work OK at a distance but fall on their face close up. I haven't spent a lot of time looking at it closely that is just my initial impression.

Animation starts out pretty strong and then a hodge podge of intermingled styles etc. get mixed in and it loses focus in my opinion.

[neil]

I had seen the stills. Animations is huge thats why didnt get time to hang on in it. Agree with you. Looks nice from the distance. Nice compositional works or perhaps over composited on few images thats why it is lacking its natural look. Few of them I like. Only the modeling is not up to the mark.

[anonyma]

i agree with you Neil, it's a very good project as far as for what is explained, but the visual achievements lacks of same level of quality, i find very positive the way the included crowded used spaces, cause usually we imagine the structures and the materials, but we forget we're planning for people to use space, and not only watching it taking photos of it.



and i'm talking about stills, will watch the animation later.