Google now has ancient Rome as a destination on Google Earth. Really interesting idea and it immediately brought to mind a story I heard about the movie Gladiator. The landscape was done in C4D and was initially a faithful reproduction of ancient Rome, much like Google Earth's version. But, even though the directors asked for that, when they saw the "reality" it wasn't good enough. So the artists had to make the buildings taller, the hills larger and basically fabricate a "real" image of Rome that was more real than the real thing...
Confused yet? It brings up the interesting paradox about what our current day memory or Rome will be. Will it be based off Gladiator or based off Google Earth?
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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