A 360 holiday tour through a Christmas village. Best experienced with VR goggles, but you can scrub around with your mouse/finger on your PC/smart device.




I started building this Christmas village in iClone 5 several years ago.  I had used one massive terrain and in this terrain I had set up all kinds of little individual Christmas scenes.

Last year I re-imagined it in iClone 6 as a 360 degree "ride", by creating a sleigh with a driver and a massive path through the terrain. I decided against deleting the scenes that would not be seen from the rider's viewpoint, instead I just added more scenes.  As I added more and more details, the project got out of control, and my computer began crashing and eventually died early December 2016.  I put the project aside until after Christmas.

I started the Christmas project again this summer 2017 with iClone 7 and a brand new computer/video card and the project opened successfully. I was able to add a tonne more detail, including motion capture to the avatars.  But once again, I reached a point where the project would no longer open.  I contacted RL and they VERY GRACIOUSLY sent me an advance version of iC 7.2 which solved my problem and allowed me to keep adding stuff (lol) and finally render it out in time for this Christmas.

It's not my biggest iClone scene and it's not my longest continuous animation, but it does have about 40 avatars and over two million polygons.  It is a single two and a half minute shot.  It took about 24 hours to render.  There is quite a bit of detail that is only visible when you are wearing VR goggles and you can move your head naturally and instinctively.

Very well done Jason, thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas to you and yours. 

Gerry

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System: Win 10 Pro (21H2), Asus X99-E WS, CPU i7-5930K -3,5 GHz, 32 GB DDR4 2666-16 RAM, NVidia GTX 1080 Ti GPU - 11 GB VRAM(Driver Studio-536.99), Samsung 850 Pro 512 GB SSD, 6 TB HD storage.

Nice work will have to give the 360 video option a try some time .

Someone on YouTube called mysterious worwor 3603vr is claiming thit video as his. I would lookl into it. Seems unfair. 

Mysterious Worlds 360 is my 360 channel!  Thanks for noticing anyways!