So this is the topography model which was the basis for the workflow. And as you can see the topography does not only cover geographical aspects it also covers the height of the building, as you can see here in financial district or mid-town Manhattan in front of Central Park. And this is the tool from Paul Everett and I used it as the first station in my workflow for recreating Lower Manhattan and by typing in latitude and longitude of the location I got the topography as a 3D model in Cinema 4D. And DEM stands for Digital Elevation Model. So the first stop in our workflow was a pretty cool plug-in for Cinema 4D called DEM Earth. And the imagery also gives a good idea about the atmospherical images, elements, how they would look like in combination with the metropolitan area. So you have to find some mechanisms to recreate that let's say procedurally or something equivalent. So recreating Lower Manhattan is almost an insane task. So when doing research about Lower Manhattan you get to know some imagery and you get pretty fast an idea of the insane amount of details you're dealing with. So we had to change the screen play a bit because the machine started originally at LaGuardia Airport, but we wanted to have those iconic landmark buildings inside so we had to change the screen play a bit and let it approach from southwest. And first of all, we had to do some research on Flight 1549 as well as on autopilot system and as well as on Lower Manhattan itself.
It's the shot where the autopilot system and this had a huge 3D part because recreating Lower Manhattan is not a simple task even not in Cinema 4D. What I will break down for you guys now is the shot above Lower Manhattan. And afterwards I will break down for you guys the first shot ditching in Lower Manhattan, the autopilot principal. Unfortunately, it's just German, one and a half minutes, I hope. It's about the function principal radar, about radar coverage of the planet, about the disappearance of Flight MH370, Malaysian Air in the Indian Ocean. Airways 1549 in the Hudson River nearby Lower Manhattan. And it's a bunch of shorts we did about the ditching of Flight U. It's about, let's say, the hidden dangers of aviation called Nightmare of Flying.
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Recently we did work for the second German television, ZDF, for a TV documentary show called Leschs Kosmos. Putting all this together means sleep well while rendering, and be independent from animation rendering from GI, if you want that. And in terms of shading use smart shaders complimenting your light set-up. In terms of lighting, play off your lighting skills, use simple yet effective animation-proof, bullet-proof light set-ups. From an artists point of view it means in terms of modeling, add a rich level of detail and do it 110%. So the result in enriched reality with an explanatory aspect. So what is Scientific Eye Candy? Most of all it's visually explaining things in a way the audience wouldn't expect by creating a rich visual experience by the means of visual effects overlapping classical explaining visualization. This is the first part, Scientific Eye Candy. I'm having a second presentation on Tuesday 12:30 p.m.
First of all this is one of two different presentations. And let's head over to the some Scientific Eye Candy, meaning visual effects for TV documentaries. So this is it for the moment for the best and most recent work for Renderbaron. And have a look at the most recent and best work so far of Renderbaron on the brand new show reel 2015. I'm a Maxon certified instructor as well. It's a studio for animation, okay here we are, and is focused on visualization, visual effects and TV commercials already since 2001, founded by myself. The Cinema 4D community all over the globe and especially my favorite Cinema 4D buddies: Freddy, Andy and Olaf. And a big, "Hello, " to all of you watching here onsite and watching here online. And first of all, big thanks to Maxon for having me again at SIGGRAPH this year. Hello, guys, my name is Marc Potocnik from Tiny But Nice animation studio, Renderbaron in the most western part of Germany, Dusseldorf.