2008 The Year of the Neogeographer
The last few months have proved interesting with a few professionals in the industry getting increasingly unsettled by the rise of the Neogeographer and with it a huge increase in information along…
Read →Virtual Earth & the Wii Remote
We picked this up via the James Fee GIS Blog , the Wii Remote has become a jack of all trades recently acting as a VR…
Urban Design: Chongqing SketchUp
Chongqing is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic of China's four provincial-level municipalities.…
Papervision: 2008 The Year of the 3D Web?
3D plugins, browsers and languages come and go, Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) rode a wave of hype only to…
Speed Painting a City in Photoshop CS3
Matte paintings are used to create "virtual sets" and "digital backlots". They can be used to create entire new sets,…
3D Visualisation: A Year Using Blender
When your covering architectural renderings from the leading design studios creating your own 3D models can be slightly…
SimCity New York (Movie)
It is interesting to see how close the Edushi (short for ECity in Chinese and pictured above) maps that we recently…
Build a City in 5 Minutes: Bryce 5/3DMax/Second Life
We love YouTube, it has opened up simple tutorials to the masses allowing techniques to be easily shared. One such…
Virtual Manchester: Model by ARUP
The market for producing 3D city models continues to expand, from lightweight web based applications to high end tools…
Building from a Box - Second Life CAD
As its Boxing Day (a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and many other…
Architectural Visualisation: Richard Meier's Church of 2000 in Rome
Roberto sent us this exquisite visualisation of Richard Meier's Jubilee Church, Rome. Roberto built the model in…
Happy Christmas
A quick post to wish all the readers of digital urban a Happy Christmas and Happy Holidays :) Full blog posts will be…
Crysis - 3000 Barrels
We promise to get round to modding Crysis as soon as we get chance, in the meantime take a look at the 4 minute movie…