Introductions I am Maria, an ambitious future VFX artist, and as other fourth year students at CMGT, I am currently working on the IMT&S course. The course is meant to contribute to my development as a future industry worker and to prepare me for graduation.
In the context of becoming a VFX artist there are 3 Learning Goals on which I will work on within this project, namely 3D procedural geometry generation within Houdini and real-time VFX and shader creation within Unreal Engine.
I will work along 6 other teammates in a studio setup on the creation of a Digital Twin City project for our client. This blog is set up as an individual progress update.
Client meeting/project tasks
After all the introductions, client briefings and team setups, we planned a meeting with our client. As a starting point for the following research phase, we all prepared individual questions for him, which were later on discussed within the team and voiced during the meeting by our team leader.
His responses allowed us to pinpoint the most important research topics related to the project and to the client's needs at that point. This is how I started collecting a primary (data collected directly from the source) and documentary (reviewing existing sources) research on existing products related to our project, keeping record of it in a Word Document within our studio OneDrive. I divided this "competitor analysis" in 2 categories: existing Digital Twin Cities and promotion strategies taken by cities advocating for a 15 min city (urban planning concept meant to make all the first need services of a resident available within 15 min of walking/biking). Here are some valuable findings:
Promotion strategies
Cities experimented both with a direct (ex. Melbourne, Australia) and indirect (ex. Paris, France) engagement with the citizens
There is a company (Blockbyblock) that promotes a better urban infrastructure by making it possible for residents of an area to visualize and modify parts of the local infrastructure via Minecraft
Existing Digital Twin Cities
Most of them are created as a 3D interactive city model that allows for some simulations to be made (ex. Singapore) but they also exist in the form of a 2D web interactive map (ex. Melbourne, Australia)
Most of them are not meant to be used by the public but rather by local policy makers/authorities/engineers/architects
There is a company (VU.CITY) that creates digital twin cities commercially
*More information is available within the research document on OneDrive (the client has access to it).
Organization
Besides taking part in team organization, I also felt the need of a personal organization set-up. I created a digital mind-map space where I could analyze the course rubrics and manual and understand the necessary steps to complete the course successfully. I also set up a Trello Board where I could track not only my tasks progresses but also my learning progress.
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