C o m p e r i o - E x o r i o r - C r e o 3 D: June 2006

Or you may call it "Mission Impossible" Project. The project came from the Brunei Ministry of Education. 3 operators (Me, Affandy, Johanes), one month deadline, 4 whole cities full scale walkthrough, no blueprints, no aerial shots, no anything. We were focusing on distinctive landmark buildings and trying to keep everything as low as possible to keep the rendering time as low as possible aswell. Fandy was interrupted with another project in the middle, so that leave just two of us. So here're some of the buildings I've worked on :

Building 1 : 50th Birthday Monument

No comment on this one. I dunno much about this monument, but said it is build for Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's 50th birthday or something?

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3D result ; 306 triangles

Building 2 : Jame Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque

The most expensive mosque in Brunei. I was told the budget to build and maintain this mosque is unlimited. The domes are gold (plated I guess) and the interior are fully marble.

Luckily we found a very old aerial footage for this one. Thanks to Cholis, the wise editor in our office. But the chopper only pass it by. I grabbed a screenshot, and use this one as reference. Also since this building is quite special here in Brunei, I go with medium polycount. So when zoomed some significant details aren't so flat.

Aerial reference

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The 3D result (It has become a nice wallpaper on my workstation :) ). This is actually an older WIP ; 771166 triangles

Building 3 : Gadong Centerpoint

A classy hotel and shopping center. The exterior don't seem really classy at all, but if you enter the hotel lobby, whew. It's quite something allright. Not that fancy, but at least it has class.

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3D result ; 94 triangles

Building 4 : TheMall Gadong

The Mall claimed to be the biggest and the classiest shopping center in Brunei Darussalam. When I took a flight here, the booklets tells mostly about this mall.

Luckily we decided to went in for refreshing at TheMall when we were taking field shots, since I found a directory map near the escalator. This give me a better view of how the building is basically shaped, also googling for a while gives me some useful results.

The "blueprint" (sort of)

3d results ; 1457 triangles

Building 5 :The Old Syariah Building

I don't know what this building's function, but judging by the name of it, I guess it has something todo with the syariah law. I don't care. I do the 3D, that's what I really care about :).

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