Description
Cinema and architecture have always existed in unison - manipulating space, location, and geography. From "Chinatown" (1974), which took an urban myth about the founding of Los Angeles on stolen water and cemented it in popular culture as the 'true history' of L.A. - to "In The Mood for Love" (2000), which was shot in Bangkok and Singapore to create a romanticized pseudo-memory of 1960s Hong Kong - the cultural power of cinema to design space is immense. Today, new technologies of VR (virtual reality) allow these spaces of cinema to expand beyond the two-dimensional screen.
In this seminar we will take movie scenes from the pre-digital era, and re-imagine them as 360-degree VR environments. In contrast to the common worldbuilding discourse of science fiction, this time we will look at films set in the past; period movies; and at alternate histories. We will learn photorealistic 3D rendering, texturing, and lighting - using VFX-industry CG generalist workflows.