Cathay Pacific microsite- 777 interior

[EricKlein]

Link to the microsite: Click on EXPERIENCE (enter)

http://www.cathaypacific.aero/index_en.html


So we've completed Phase II of this project, and added Flight Attendants, food, and upgraded the speed of the interface a bit. This time we also upgraded the camera for the green screen work to a Sony HDW-F900R, and had the footage cleaned by the HK company Medfond. Compositing and rendering was still done here.

One bug we have discovered with the site (and using papervison) appears to be that on a 64bit computer using 32bit internet explorer, flash wants to cache the whole site before allowing you to interact....this doesn't happen in firefox or opera...annoying...


Cheers,

Eric.

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Hello,

A few of us at TEAGUE just finished a project with the Advertising firm McCann Erickson (Hong Kong), creating a microsite for Cathay Pacific Airlines.

Our portion of the project included the model assembly, texture, lighting and rendering of the Cathay 777 interior, along with keying and compositing the green screen footage into the animations. We also researched the somewhat unique solution of using flash and papervision to walk through the entire aircraft.

McCann did some futher post work on the imagery, built and programed the site. (Well done guys!)

We use 3ds max 9, render with Vray, and composite in Combustion.

Thanks for trying out the site!
(upgrade your flash 9 player if you haven't lately, it fixes a few problems with playback)

Thanks,

Eric.

[Jonferimonic]

Nice stills. First class looks sweet, not that ill ever travel in it. As for the website, it could possibly be my connection but the site takes so long to load up, I tried to take the tour of first class but just closed it after a couple of minutes cause it was stop/starting too much.

[EricKlein]

Thanks for the feedback about the website...I do think it is a very ambitious amount of data to push. Load times are pretty quick here, and the point release of flash 9 seems to help a bit too...

Eric.

[posterus]

very nicely done. it looks great. can you give some more insight into the process of making in interactive? walking around the cabin is pretty fun...like a vray video game

[EricKlein]

Thanks,

The "3d walkaround" is accomplished via papervision:

http://blog.papervision3d.org/

I had a theory that you could place a camera in the center of a sphere, and use the 360 cam in vray to make an animation play on the sphere. You (the camera) stay at 0,0...and the animation plays around you, making for a sort of moving flash VR. (you can do the same thing in max, although the viewport resolution sucks)

I've seen the idea accomplished in different ways, but not without pluggins...other than flash~

Eric.

by the way, this one: http://www.redbull.com/flightlab/ is horribly addicting...

[mikeh]

Nice stills. First class looks sweet, not that ill ever travel in it. As for the website, it could possibly be my connection but the site takes so long to load up, I tried to take the tour of first class but just closed it after a couple of minutes cause it was stop/starting too much.

interesting that you would call them stills. the top one is slowly animating on my screen.
mh

[EricKlein]

Well, it was a still a minute ago~ I thought it might be better in motion...

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[Crayox13]

Dude this is insane! A panoramic walk through! Never knew it could be done! I'll have to check out this papervision, I guess it has something to do with that.

You have to know flash to do something like that?

[emptyvoxel]

Yep, papervision is an actionscript for Flash. As Eric mentioned, it's essentially a flash movie playing on a 3d sphere, with a camera inside. One of our coworkers got a mockup of it working that we submitted to the client (McCann-Erickson) and then they went nuts coding it to work online. Given the size of the individual frames from the animation (2000 X 1000) and the number of frames (1200!) I'm still surprised they were able to get it looking as good as they did and loading as fast as it does.

Here are a few of the full-size frames we rendered.







Cheers,
Michael

[ene.xis]

it looks awesome!
congratulations!

[pskdude]

omg that red bull site is awesome hahahha i that is so funny

[stilgarna]

Congrats... Great work !!!

And great idea...

Best regards...

[pshupe68]

Great stuff - I have checked out that site and it is really bad? The idea is awesome but it just doesn't work. I tried it on 3 different computers at different locations. I don't know whether the lag is just so long that I cannot wait and start pressing all the buttons or what, but it is pretty frustrating to watch and not be able to control.

Has anyone had any luck with running this and being able to control the view etc?

again great job the images are fantastic.

Cheers Peter.

[egz]

Great stuff - I have checked out that site and it is really bad? The idea is awesome but it just doesn't work. I tried it on 3 different computers at different locations. I don't know whether the lag is just so long that I cannot wait and start pressing all the buttons or what, but it is pretty frustrating to watch and not be able to control.

Has anyone had any luck with running this and being able to control the view etc?

again great job the images are fantastic.

Cheers Peter.

No problems at all here. Site loads fast and the view control (looking around while moving) works great.

[pshupe68]

hmmm - that is strange? - I'll have to give it another try!