Rebuilding Jamestown in 1670
I really enjoyed this project because it involved creating something that has very little reference. My team and I built Jamestown in the 1670s based on a drawing that an archeologist made after excavating the location. The town is used in a opening shot for a 4D film in a museum for Jamestown. My coworker got some drone footage of an grassy area along a field and that is where we decided to build our town. I used what little reference there was to model the statehouse building (show in images below) and a few other small houses. We also used paintings as reference for the architecture such as row houses and what kind of roofs to put on buildings.
After picking out our shot from the drone footage, I took it in Cinema 4D and used the 3D camera tracker. It took a few times of trial and error to get a solid point cloud since it is such a wide shot and the tree line kept getting lost in the plane. We used the archeologist’s drawing to place each building as well as rough in some roads. My coworker and I split the modeling and texturing.
My contribution : 3D Camera motion tracking, modeling, texturing
Programs used : Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop
