http://www.futuricity.info/blog The city of tomorrow Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:43:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our project guidelines require that we undertake some audience testing to ensure that we don’t become overwhelmed by our own greatness! It’s amazing how much a fresh pair of eyes and ears can make you see your work in a different light. We showed our work to a ... http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/17 A trailer for Futuricity is now available online - please note some scenes are not complete and there is a lot that will be visually different in the actual film. The trailer is just to give you an idea of what Futuricity will be like. This is the first media ... http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/16 I’ve been working on the site recently to bring you some fresh new features. Well actually some are more updates of old features but there are a couple that are new - I promise! The first thing to mention is the updated Media Player, it now has swishy DHTML effects ... http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/15 We successfully completed all of the live action filming across two days (16th + 21st Feb) and now have to move on to compositing the live action with the 3D graphics. We are currently working on documenting the entire process and you will find pages of detail at futuricity.info/filming. I ... http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/14 Today we have a presentation to members of staff at the University to allow them to see what stage we are at with the project. They were generally impressed and came up with some good ideas for improvements. You can see the presentation we gave by taking a look at ... http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/13 Filming will take place on Thursday 16th February - this has now been confirmed. We will be filming in the Department of Electronics Green Screen studio which is located at the back of the department. All details are now on the web in Filming Section. http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/12 The Futuricity Team are pleased to announce that the Opening Scene is now complete. Details of the development process are available to view on that page along with videos of each stage. http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/11 We now been conducting projects meetings for last few months. These meetings are held at least three times a month, they are used keep each other updated on the progress on tasks that we have undertaken. This gives all members of the team a chance to voice their opinions ... http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/10 We now have the use of a large blue Chroma key screen, thanks to our friends at South Kent College. Example of the First Green Screen Test can be seen here, it shows a real person walking within a virtual world. This scene has not been properly masked, which shows ... http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/9 I’ve added loads of new media to the site. As Futuricity is at a very early stage in it’s development they are samples of what the final product will look like. Take a look at the main site for details of all the new media. http://www.futuricity.info/blog/archives/8