Animating Architecture

With computer animation becoming ubiquitous, the usual flythrough no longer makes an impression. Nate Berg looks at the leading edge of architectural animation.

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December 19, 2009, 1:00 PM PST

By Tim Halbur


"'A flythrough is as relevant to the view of something as a sketch on a napkin. No one ever sees anything from the perspective of a flythrough. Unless you're a drone,' said Peter Frankfurt, co-founder of Imaginary Forces, a design studio with offices in Los Angeles and New York that produces film titles, commercials, interactive spaces, and a variety of visual elements and experiences.

Frankfurt and Imaginary Forces routinely work with architects, and were part of the multidisciplinary consortium United Architects, whose pre-visualization film became one of six finalists in the competition to redesign the World Trade Center. Rather than focusing solely on the proposed design, the film imagines the complex already built and tracks the reactions of people as they see it for the first time, jutting out from the skyline and peeking through the forest of skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan."

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