I wanted to create a mall “celebration and happening” image.
I took some references of the Golden Mall in Rishon Le’tzion and recreated the mall within 3D Studio MAX.
My next step was to experiments with different viewing angles. Than checking some different situations – I found my favorite view and tried it in a few scenarios. One of them is music show at night and another one was at a food festival in the middle.
Finally I decided to go with a show in the middle of the stage, which gave me the advantage of putting a lot of audience around the stage and on the mall’s entire floor.

A personal project using Anima for making a crowd simulation used in an animation. Had this idea when playing around with Anima. I am using Octane Render and was extremely excited when seeing that Anima people can be used without customizing anima people.

Finally got to play around in Anima – what a great and fun piece of software this is to use.

I installed some new characters from the code that Ronen kindly provided and then I bought my scene into Anima and started placing characters around the scene. I felt that the street was slightly to narrow at this point – after a few house of ‘trying’ to make it work, I caved and decided to go back into max and widen the street ever so slightly as i felt i couldn’t make it as ‘Crowded’ as it needed to be.

Making this change allowed me to really bring out the vibrant and busy nature of the Corfu streets – using Anima i tried to place ‘the right’ characters into the scene… making sure that they interacted with each other as much as possible.

I will render the final image over night – with the hope to upload tomorrow night. Hope you like my progress so far.

I guess i can go to bed now…. Night night.