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Capture
Drone aerials and photogrammetry, terrestrial scans and Gaussian splats, from Mactan to Palawan.
PLACES
REAL PLACES, BUILT TO MEASURE
What we fly and scan becomes the set. The coast of Hadsan beach in PH Watersports comes from OpenStreetMap, with the land modelled after our drone photo of the cove; the tourist bangka in Isda is modelled to the proportions of our drone photogrammetry of bangkas at anchor.
HUMANS
DIGITAL HUMANS
In Unreal Engine 5.8 we took public photos of three well-known Filipinas to rigged, textured MetaHumans, with faces that blink and breathe, shot on 85 mm cine cameras and rendered with Movie Render Queue. AI models did the engine work by writing Python inside the editor. The likeness is not there yet; the pipeline is.
STORY
LAPU-LAPU, FILM & GAME
The Battle of Mactan, 27 April 1521, is the story we keep coming back to: a real-time 3D game made in Lapu-Lapu City, rigged characters and warboats, and the feature film The First Defender.
- LapuLapu – The GameThe battle as a real-time 3D game, free in the browser
- The First Defender: A Lapu Lapu StoryThe feature film
- Lapu-Lapu on screenWhy the next telling is a game
- Lapu-Lapu's character rigRigged for the game · Facebook
TOOLS
THE PIPELINE
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Maps & terrain
3D maps of Lapu-Lapu City and Metro Cebu, the CCLEX bridge, Boracay and El Nido, on Sketchfab.
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Digital humans
MetaHumans from photos, measured with research face models; characters rigged for animation, like an eskrimador for Filipino martial arts.
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World models
Worlds you walk through in real time from world models such as HY-World 1.5, and 3D generated from a single photo.
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Real-time engines
Unreal Engine for digital humans and renders; browser engines for games that run on a phone, nothing to install.
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Post & delivery
Cebu-based edit suite, colour and delivery in broadcast and social formats.