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Sim TV: Interactive 3D Models of Television Show Floor Plans

02 Apr

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Fixtures & Interiors. ]

dexter condo

Be the show drama or comedy, the scenes set by designers for television programs tend to become as familiar as the characters being acted and the stories they tell – with these interactive models from HomeByMe, you can take a step back and see some famous and classic sets from a new perspective. As a bonus: you can also click to download any view as a static image, too, or check out some of other TV home plans hand-drawn in 2D – meanwhile, start by clicking on the images below to spin them around.

dexter interior design

First on the list: Dexter‘s sleek Miami loft full of whites, blacks and grays but largely devoid of color – a perfect home for a calculated killer trying to fit in yet finding it hard to show (or even have) emotion. You can even see his closet where he keeps, well, never you mind.

friends 3d model view

On a lighter note, this apartment was home to half the cast of Friends, Rachel and Monica mostly but with some rotation as well (no pun intended). Spin the model to see their bedrooms, bathroom, living room, kitchen and deck from different angles.

how i met your mother

On the set of How I Met Your Mother has some added elements of seasonal decor, including a Christmas tree as well as some figures of the cast sprinkled in for scale and perspective.

3d home model big bang theory

The Big Bang Theory features a surprisingly odd-shaped dwelling when seen from a distance – perhaps not as obvious in the show itself, the floor plan is full of strange intersections, extraneous spaces and odd angles, not too unlike the minds of its inhabitants.

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Yahoo Running Television Commercials for the New Flickr

05 Jun

Yahoo Running a Television Commercial Promoting the New Flickr

Lest anyone doubt Marissa Mayer and Yahoo’s new commitment to photo sharing site Flickr, apparently Yahoo is now running a paid television commercial for the photo sharing site — the first of its kind as far as I’m aware. Following some of the tweets on the commercial spot, it sounds like it may have begun running yesterday on NBC programming.

The advertisement, which features the Bright Eyes song, “The First Day of My Life,” shows a photo montage of pug dogs, among other images. You can watch the commercial yourself above from Yahoo’s corporate YouTube account.

The commercial comes out a few weeks after a successful new redesign of the site that gave all Flickr users a free terabyte of high res photo space.

I posted previously on an informal statistic of uploads being up 71% at Flickr since the redesign, these statistics would seem to be in line with other metrics that Yahoo is also seeing internally, according to Flickr Community Manager Thea Lampkin.

“[W]e have a lot of data already and are measuring traffic to all the new pages (don’t worry, it’s all anonymous),” writes Lampkin. “So far the metrics have been overwhelmingly positive, and we’re very happy with how Flickr members everywhere are interacting with the new site. Sets in particular are getting more traffic than ever before.”


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As Seen on TV: Floor Plans from Famous Television Series

15 Apr

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Drawing & Digital. ]

television plan drawings pencil

A talented cast, backed by brilliant directors and writers, makes you feel like part of the action – not just through the actors telling a story, but also via the familiar spaces they regularly occupy in each episode (sometimes for years).

telivision simpsons house

Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde is an artist and designer who painstakingly analyzes and draws out the rooms your favorite characters and their tales occupy, be they the charming sitcom Golden Girls or the macabre drama of Dexter.

television hand drawn pencil

And while our minds generally complete the picture for us, many of these famous dwellings do not really exist in a complete way, and some are never fully shown because of camera, entrance and exit placements, leaving our imagination to fill in the gaps.

telivision sitcom interior plans

In some cases, the action spans more than a single apartment, as in Friends where it is ultimately about two neighboring units and the hallway in between.

television show floor plans

In other cases, like the Simpsons, seeing the plan makes you realize how simple it is in a fictional world that is wacky in so many ways – it is the backdrop, not a character itself. In the end, real life or otherwise, everyone needs doors, floors, windows and walls. Check out DeviantArt for a closer look or to buy a print.

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Samsung 3D television projection Beurs Amsterdam

02 Jan

AMSTERDAM – Promo Samsung 3D projection. The first 3D television by Samsung. Breaking down the ‘Beurs’ buidling in Amsterdam. (C) alphons.net
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Stereoscopy for Television

20 Jul

Stereoscopic 3D broadcasting is here, and post production professionals are thinking about how they can integrate this new technology into their workflows. Autodesk talks to broadcasters and post production facilities about the creative demands of supporting Stereoscopic 3D content. www.autodesk.com

In this second part of the tutorial, I explain how to maneuver your two cameras through 3D space together, producing a convincing stereoscopic effect when the eyes are crossed. Two things I forgot to mention in the video: 1. You’ll probably want to reposition the 3D cursor at some point. To do so, either right- or left-click, depending on your settings. 2. If at some point you want to go back to using object centers as the pivots for rotation and so forth, rather than the 3D cursor, press shift-comma.