Author: Andy Hudson-Smith

The Sky Scratcher is a kickstarter project which at the time of writing has 38 hours to go – in short there is still time to back it.

If we had a cat here at digitalurban it would without doubt be the Sky Scratcher – a revolutionary, architectural s…

The skyscraper is perhaps the most recognizable icon of the modern urban landscape. Providing offices, homes, restaurants, and shopping to thousands of inhabitants, modern skyscrapers function as small cities- with infrastructure not unlike that hidden…

Core to GEMMA (our Geographical Engine for Mass Mapping Applications) is the OpenStreetMap feature highlighter. The feature highlighter allows users to search for any term and have it mapped with via points or original OpenStreetMap fe…

Realtime rendering has moved on a long way in recent years – a prime example is Lumion® a real-time 3D visualisation tool for architects, urban planners and designers.

Suited for creating videos, still renderings and live demonstrations with a qui…

Finally we are nearing the end of the project (ok technically at the end but its both complex and exciting so we might squeeze in a few more days yet) we would like to introduce the world to GEMMA, the Geospatial Engine for Mass Mapping Applications.&n…

Dr Duncan Smith, a Research Fellow here in CASA and author of our latest blog – Urban Geographics has produced an interesting visualisation of London’s Urban form:

The visualisation of the density and function of the built-environment shows the domi…

Dr Duncan Smith, a Research Fellow here in CASA and author of our latest blog – Urban Geographics has produced an interesting visualisation of London’s Urban form:

The visualisation of the density and function of the built-environment shows the domi…

Sometimes you walk to the end of lab, here in CASA, get introduced to a visitor and have to take a step back at the resulting demo. Yesterday i had the pleasure of meeting Tobias Franke of the University of Passau’s Embedded System Lab who is part of a…

Sometimes you walk to the end of lab, here in CASA, get introduced to a visitor and have to take a step back at the resulting demo. Yesterday i had the pleasure of meeting Tobias Franke of the University of Passau’s Embedded System Lab who is part of a…

Building a 3D city can take time and sometimes an off the shelf solution is the best option for moving a project forward. As such the City Kit by GreyScaleGorilla is well with a look. Running in Cinema 4D the kits allows the rapid construction of citys…

Building a 3D city can take time and sometimes an off the shelf solution is the best option for moving a project forward. As such the City Kit by GreyScaleGorilla is well with a look. Running in Cinema 4D the kits allows the rapid construction of citys…

Below is a stop-motion animation captured in Moscow, it lasts for 1 minute 30 seconds and consists of 1072 images. You see only feet in the clip with images captured at the level of the human eye. Frames were prepared by hand and all the scenes were sh…

Below is a stop-motion animation captured in Moscow, it lasts for 1 minute 30 seconds and consists of 1072 images. You see only feet in the clip with images captured at the level of the human eye. Frames were prepared by hand and all the scenes were sh…

Augmented reality (AR) applications have the potential to change the city experience by overlaying the digital information on the physical environment. Yujin Yin a student on the MA Digital Media at Gildsmiths Univversity of London asks, what is the

Augmented reality (AR) applications have the potential to change the city experience by overlaying the digital information on the physical environment. Yujin Yin a student on the MA Digital Media at Gildsmiths Univversity of London asks, what is the

Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting …

7am and rummaging around Vimeo we stumbled upon work by Ramy Hanna, his work on the School of the Future is simply inspiring:

The entire model was made using SketchUp with rendering via an import into 3DMax and Metal Ray, final edits were made…

Shot on a Bolex with intervalometer, this sampling from Chris Scarafile’s time lapse library reflects the blur and momentum of modern city living:

We really like a) the feel of the clip and b) the fact that it was shot using a Bolex….

The Audi Urban Future Summit focused on the question of energies and forces that will shape future cities. Visionary ideas and research by experts on the development of new forms of urban mobility were in the center of the discussions. All well and goo…

Here at digital urban we are picky, we like the best and this is why we are especially pleased to of found ‘Skoda – Curriculum’ by weareflink. Although not the most stand out title for a short 3D movie, it is amazing:

One of the greatest challenge …

The sequel to the award winning Golden Age – The Simulation, ‘Somewhere’ attempts to visualise the notion of a ‘downloaded architecture’. We are in a time where much of what we do is online. The notion of the online will radically change, the notion of…

The Canon T3i has the option to capture at 60fps at 720p, essentially allowing you to slow time by 50%. The effect is used to its max by Alex Lee with his Tokyo Slo-Mode movie:

Very nice…

Music Credit: Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke- …And the Wor…

Often the gaming world is closer to the urban modelling and transport flow research world than many would think. One such case is Cities in Motion (CIM) a city-based mass transportation simulator for the PC. Players operate their own transportation com…