Finally someone who acurately reconstructs a historical building and shows what (re)sources and research he incorporates in his modeling. A very clear, well designed and helpfull video!
@@durandboyExactly how colourful roman buildings were intended to be is still debated, it's not as clear cut (haha) as "clear marble roman buildings were never an intentional choice!"
@@durandboy I believe he went for a restoration which makes it look like the rest of the building never vanished and remained there for the whole time until today, not for an era accurate representation, that's why he added the damage to the temple, you can probably bet it looked pretty different when it was first built which would of course be hard to recreate as there are no real sources about the exact colors
@janie When i was in Pompeii in the House of Faun, i noticed in the backyard, that the columns were made of bricks and covered with a thin layer of what appears to be white gypsum. The painted walls and graffiti are well preserved under the volcanic Tephra, so i guess the columns in Pompeii were intentionally left blank? (I'm not a specialist, but i did wonder about that when visiting Pompeii, knowing that the period Greek and Roman statues of gods were painted.)
It would be great if you could use the same software to reconstruct the Puma Punku archaeological complex. It is a great mystery in what way the stones were arranged.
Never used Blender in my life but the way you're trying to get into a head of an architect who's been dead for two millenia is absolutely mesmerising. I wish everyone was as punctual and precise when recreating historical sites.
Chances are, he is the architect reborn 2 millennia later, so he can continue his work in cgi form, repairing the damage done by the ravage of time to his temple project started 2 millennia ago.😁
I spent the past 30 minutes wondering whether this was a master class in architecture, Roman history or Blender - and frankly, I don't care which of those it was. I loved every second of it!
Now there are many, many very talented Blender users on TH-cam - but I think you're the only one whom I sit and watch with my mouth open. 😅 Utterly splendid work. I'm looking forward to the day where I am one third as good as you and I'll call that a giant win. haha. Brilliant and thanks!
Great job! I hope that someday the Italian government funds a big project to rebuild the whole Roman Forum in 3D, and put those models in a augmented reality phone app. I have been to the Roman Forum and I really think it would be a great use of Augmented Reality. And I hope the model in this video is considered to the project.
Sounds like the amazon series peripheral, where the future is pretty crumbled and there are near to no humans left, so the AR adds npcs and the fixed buildings. Would be pretty cool to have something like this in the reality. Would be kinda hilarious when you see some old romans getting drunk in the streets.
This was a well done video. I've been using Blender for 17 years professionally and never used the shear tool, I never quite knew what it did but I had wished there was a tool to do that lol.
This is like a masterclass on how to recreate architecture. Quite impressive considering that the original structured is almost entirely detroyed and the quantity of references is so minimal, while explaining the process step by step. I almost feel like I shouldn't be watching this for free.
YOU JUST GOT A SUB! I was so shocked that I ended up watching the entire video! This was pure visual and audio ecstasy and I can't wait to watch more of this truly. Also, as some others have said, you are truly a blender guru 😉
this is very well done and thorough. you didn't just go find old representations of what it looked like and just copied from there, it was much, much more complex than that and i like it.
I am left speechless. The amount of research, knowledge, and presentation in 30 min is outstanding. I barely blinked out of fear of missing something. Outstanding work, truly outstanding.
Thank you for making this wonderful video. It is unfortunate, therefore, that the pace is so fast and the data flashed in and out so quickly, that it is impossible to follow them and learn from them. The pace should be no more than a quarter of what it is now, and you should explalin this slowly to allow people to follo what you are saying and read what you are flashing. At present, only one of the three sets of your presentation can be fllowed, either the graphics, or the written frames, or you own explanation, but not all of them. It is a great shame, because your video seem to be great and educaional. SLOW DOWN and let people assimilate what you are presenting, please.
I was like: "Will he do the ornaments?"... And yes you did everything by hand. Incredible work. Learned some useful tricks along the way: the randomization of objects color per instances is a real stroke of genius.
I'm totally perplexed by the brilliance of this but really loved every minute of it. Thank you so much for sharing this video of bringing ancient Rome alive.
I've studied Classical architecture extensively, and I can say with confidence that your recreation is spot-on. Because I'm 17, a lot of people won't listen to me when I tell them, "The edge of the entablature should not extend beyond the shaft of the column," or, "Every column needs proper entasis." Your knowledge far surpasses that of ANYONE I know. Keep doing what you're doing, and never be afraid to call people out for their architectural mistakes!
I had a moment watching this! Man, I wish I had learned to think in this way, when i was in architectural school. I can follow you thoughts process and it opened my eyes to working with blender!
Congratulations, a magnificent work, absolute precision, fantastic modeling capacity, the final result can transport us to the past, and see the Temple in its heyday.
BEFORE 29:56 and AFTER 29:58 - only a 2 second show really, after watching a half hour. Too bad not a 360 view or just let us enjoy the final project. However great work.
I've been having trouble finding references...Is there any public website in Europe that records survey data/drawings of historical architectures? I know there's a "Historic American Buildings Survey" project in the US, but never found a similar one in Europe. After all there are not many ancient buildings in the US...
I can't find some of nodes or options like horizontal stack node or deco manager.. any advice..? ; __ ; amazing tutorial but missing some of these on 4.1
You did a wonderful job! The temple looks amazing... now as a non English native speaker I struggled with the Italian pronunciation of the language of Shakespeare 😅
:O oh wow, this would be super useful for any student of digital humanities... I might just add blender to my list of programs to learn! I used to be kind of good at photoshop, this looks more my speed: research + vectorizing architectural documents :3
It would be amazing to bring this into Augmented Reality, then have it work on site, using GPS coordinates and pattern recognition with depth maps. Quest 3 pro or Apple Vision Pro. I want this. Now 😮
I hope one day some state institution will be able to make use of specialized personnel to recreate similar things, to give the opportunity (to those who cannot see them live) to see them from home. unfortunately there are often contracts and "dubious" things involved so ridiculous products come out that make us laugh bitterly. (big budget -> awful results) (an example was a ridiculous and shameful historical video game whose name I won't mention) Congratulations for the work done.
It's interesting, if these buildings had remained in uninterrupted use for 2500 years, they would have been subject to a constant cycle of periodical renovation, but when the original proprietors neglect their upkeep for a couple thousand years, we shy away from restoring them...
Shit man, I dunno how much do thwy pay you, but for the work you do you deserve a crazy raise. models like these, used in tourism with VR or AR could bring to a mesmerizing experience for everybody
OP: now imagine if the goverment put a QR to scan at the temple, and people could see your rendered model transposed over the site itself, and walk through it, with Mixed reality (phones or headsets), that would be awesome ! the vuforia engine can do that in unity or something make a company out of it, model, render with vuforia, sell it to historical sites and museums (licensed per visit, like $0.5, $1, per virtual visit or something to govs and agencies, they can fund it and make it free, or choose to make users pay for it, that would be awesome for school trips, tourism...)
HI. nice video and excelent work, it would be awesome to visit this kind of place and will see it with all of its glory. I think now it will possible with VR, imagine the people in the place can rent a Quest 3 or other visor... donwload the renders and visit the place with passtrough tecnologie, seeing all the buildings as new with all historical info... the next level of turistic guidance in historical places. I hope some day could see this tecnics with my own eyes. Best regards.
I've used Blender for a bit over 100h. I couldn't model the basic base of that temple. This guy probably wrote the program and then used it for 10000 hours.
I'd love to do mixed reality tours around historically significant places. Imagine you had something like a Meta Quest VR headset or whatever, and you could walk around historical venues and you can use 3D rendered storytelling to chronicle the story of a place. You could fast forward 1000s of years right in front of your eyes.
Excellent work. Have you looked into the proportional system used in classical architecture? It is common to claim the golden ratio is everywhere but some say this did not exist in architectural theory before the renaissance. Whole number ratios were used at least since Plato, as used in Ptolemy's Helikon. The tetrachord produces a series of rational or whole number ratios.
I wish there was a QR code with the information sign on all the historical sites. We could use the mobile to view an augmented reality on top of the ruin, having a much more imersive experience
Finally someone who acurately reconstructs a historical building and shows what (re)sources and research he incorporates in his modeling. A very clear, well designed and helpfull video!
But, what about the colours. Weren't these buildings full of colour?
@durandboy probably they were. But since I could not find any reliable source on that I decided to leave it like this 👍
@@durandboyExactly how colourful roman buildings were intended to be is still debated, it's not as clear cut (haha) as "clear marble roman buildings were never an intentional choice!"
@@durandboy I believe he went for a restoration which makes it look like the rest of the building never vanished and remained there for the whole time until today, not for an era accurate representation, that's why he added the damage to the temple, you can probably bet it looked pretty different when it was first built which would of course be hard to recreate as there are no real sources about the exact colors
@janie When i was in Pompeii in the House of Faun, i noticed in the backyard, that the columns were made of bricks and covered with a thin layer of what appears to be white gypsum. The painted walls and graffiti are well preserved under the volcanic Tephra, so i guess the columns in Pompeii were intentionally left blank? (I'm not a specialist, but i did wonder about that when visiting Pompeii, knowing that the period Greek and Roman statues of gods were painted.)
Your knowledge of geonodes is so impressive. Well done! :)
Fantastico!! spero di vedere altre ricostruzioni romane!!
Absolute legend!
but what is this for the love of god!!
I went in to see some 3D modeling, damn, I discovered I don't know anything! (Awesome)
It would be great if you could use the same software to reconstruct the Puma Punku archaeological complex. It is a great mystery in what way the stones were arranged.
bro you are crazy
Can you make the kailasa temple in ellora too
timelapse with perfect narrator = Mind blown 🥵🤯
Never used Blender in my life but the way you're trying to get into a head of an architect who's been dead for two millenia is absolutely mesmerising. I wish everyone was as punctual and precise when recreating historical sites.
What Makes You Think That The Architect Is Dead?
Chances are, he is the architect reborn 2 millennia later, so he can continue his work in cgi form, repairing the damage done by the ravage of time to his temple project started 2 millennia ago.😁
This is so professional it makes my whole architectural in-process degree looks a children’s play.
Seriously, I'm out of speach. I need to review all what I think know about blender. Wonderful tutorial and advice. Thank You!!
I spent the past 30 minutes wondering whether this was a master class in architecture, Roman history or Blender - and frankly, I don't care which of those it was. I loved every second of it!
Now there are many, many very talented Blender users on TH-cam - but I think you're the only one whom I sit and watch with my mouth open. 😅
Utterly splendid work. I'm looking forward to the day where I am one third as good as you and I'll call that a giant win. haha. Brilliant and thanks!
Thank you for your kind words! 🙏
the same goes from me! Splendid job. @@hbitproject
Great job! I hope that someday the Italian government funds a big project to rebuild the whole Roman Forum in 3D, and put those models in a augmented reality phone app. I have been to the Roman Forum and I really think it would be a great use of Augmented Reality. And I hope the model in this video is considered to the project.
Sounds like the amazon series peripheral, where the future is pretty crumbled and there are near to no humans left, so the AR adds npcs and the fixed buildings. Would be pretty cool to have something like this in the reality. Would be kinda hilarious when you see some old romans getting drunk in the streets.
@@dalivanwyngarden3204write a book bro you have a creative imagination I like the way you think 💪🏻💪🏻
I've spent the last 30 minutes in complete awe and utter confusion at the same time. Thoroughly enjoyed it
lol
This is insane, so well researched and that research is executed upon faithfully. Well done 👏
Thank you, I appreciate it! 🙏
This was a well done video. I've been using Blender for 17 years professionally and never used the shear tool, I never quite knew what it did but I had wished there was a tool to do that lol.
This is like a masterclass on how to recreate architecture. Quite impressive considering that the original structured is almost entirely detroyed and the quantity of references is so minimal, while explaining the process step by step. I almost feel like I shouldn't be watching this for free.
YOU JUST GOT A SUB! I was so shocked that I ended up watching the entire video! This was pure visual and audio ecstasy and I can't wait to watch more of this truly.
Also, as some others have said, you are truly a blender guru 😉
Thank you! 🙏
Do I know how to use Blender -----> NO
Did I understand anything in the video ------> NO
Did I watch the video anyway ---------> YES
A 30 minutes video will turn out in a 10 hours note taking session! Excelent video, would love to have some of this videos turn into full courses!
This is way more involved than I'd have expected. Hats off.
Good work! One small nag, in 6 AD Tiberius wasn't the emperor yet, Augustus still had some years to go.
Ops, you're right. Thank you for pointing that out! 👍
Man, what an amazing job! I wanted to see a first-person tour to make everything perfect.
Okay, that tile modeling system is NUTS. Good lord.
And I thought my job was complicated and sophisticated. Respect.
Impressive to see someone use blender to its fullest. Well above my ability, but enjoyable to watch.
this is very well done and thorough. you didn't just go find old representations of what it looked like and just copied from there, it was much, much more complex than that and i like it.
Thank you for the in-depth work flow that I could emulate in "restoring" my town's ancient buildings that are only ruins now, even as CGI.
I am left speechless. The amount of research, knowledge, and presentation in 30 min is outstanding. I barely blinked out of fear of missing something. Outstanding work, truly outstanding.
Excellent process, excellent execution, excellent output. A master of architectural CAD
Thank you for making this wonderful video. It is unfortunate, therefore, that the pace is so fast and the data flashed in and out so quickly, that it is impossible to follow them and learn from them.
The pace should be no more than a quarter of what it is now, and you should explalin this slowly to allow people to follo what you are saying and read what you are flashing. At present, only one of the three sets of your presentation can be fllowed, either the graphics, or the written frames, or you own explanation, but not all of them. It is a great shame, because your video seem to be great and educaional. SLOW DOWN and let people assimilate what you are presenting, please.
Amazing knowledge and work!
And on top demonstrates how by "just" reconstructing a building you can uncover wrong assumptions of antiquity experts!
Ao sei un mostro! Ho appena passato mezz'ora ipnotizzato da cose che non avevo idea mi potessero interessare. Sei davvero incredibile, complimenti!
Grazie mille! 🙏
anni di architettura, anni di modellazione, anni di rilievi, ma qui sei ad un altro livello... compilmenti
Grazie! 🙏
6.9.2024 My new favorite blender channel as I am in Roma as part of our Italian vacation.
I was like: "Will he do the ornaments?"... And yes you did everything by hand. Incredible work.
Learned some useful tricks along the way: the randomization of objects color per instances is a real stroke of genius.
This would be really great for the remaining ruines inside of Rome. To see how a Building would look like at the past time. 😊
30 minutes, only show the "after" / finished product for barely 2 seconds, and not even the full image. wtf bro?
A work of love! So clean, so thorough. Almost meditative
Ah quindi sei di Roma anche tu? Hai studiato a Valle giulia? Comunque video clamoroso!
🏆Thank you for this content, which will be a reference source for every study.
you need to watch 27 times this video to get 1% of this guy knowledge
PLEASE do more recreation/ restoration videos !!! It was so captivating !
Can you share the project?
I'm totally perplexed by the brilliance of this but really loved every minute of it.
Thank you so much for sharing this video of bringing ancient Rome alive.
amazing work mate - in awe once again 🙂
Thank you! Much appreciated 🙏
I've studied Classical architecture extensively, and I can say with confidence that your recreation is spot-on. Because I'm 17, a lot of people won't listen to me when I tell them, "The edge of the entablature should not extend beyond the shaft of the column," or, "Every column needs proper entasis." Your knowledge far surpasses that of ANYONE I know. Keep doing what you're doing, and never be afraid to call people out for their architectural mistakes!
This has been one of the best videos I've seen in a long time... absolutely amazing!
WOW
These videos are so valuable.
Not many tackle the how to start bits with projects like these.
This is insane, would love to see more projects of reconstructed historic sites!
Do you have your ready projects in some place to buy?
This box with pillars is the simple most complex model I've ever seen anyone make. You never copy paste: You only automate. This is crazy.
Love your architectural projects man!
Stunning
Thank you, much appreciated! 😊🙌
ma sei troppo bravo
Grazie! 🙏
I had a moment watching this! Man, I wish I had learned to think in this way, when i was in architectural school. I can follow you thoughts process and it opened my eyes to working with blender!
Absolutely awesome work. What a great Insight into your Work and Workflow. So many good tips. Thank you very much
Congratulations, a magnificent work, absolute precision, fantastic modeling capacity, the final result can transport us to the past, and see the Temple in its heyday.
BEFORE 29:56 and AFTER 29:58 - only a 2 second show really, after watching a half hour. Too bad not a 360 view or just let us enjoy the final project. However great work.
I've been having trouble finding references...Is there any public website in Europe that records survey data/drawings of historical architectures? I know there's a "Historic American Buildings Survey" project in the US, but never found a similar one in Europe.
After all there are not many ancient buildings in the US...
You Are a Genius !!! Love your videos !!!
I can't find some of nodes or options like horizontal stack node or deco manager.. any advice..? ; __ ; amazing tutorial but missing some of these on 4.1
You did a wonderful job! The temple looks amazing... now as a non English native speaker I struggled with the Italian pronunciation of the language of Shakespeare 😅
Why don't people restore those buildings for real?💁🏼♀️ They look great
:O oh wow, this would be super useful for any student of digital humanities... I might just add blender to my list of programs to learn! I used to be kind of good at photoshop, this looks more my speed: research + vectorizing architectural documents :3
They should combine it with VR at this museum and hire you! Write them!!!
Insane, do you ever get commissioned by museums ? Would love to see some ancient egypt stuff :) keep it up!
Amazing work! Can I ask you how you learned 3d modeling? Any course you’d recommend? Would love to learn it too. Thanks!
It would be amazing to bring this into Augmented Reality, then have it work on site, using GPS coordinates and pattern recognition with depth maps. Quest 3 pro or Apple Vision Pro. I want this. Now 😮
I hope one day some state institution will be able to make use of specialized personnel to recreate similar things, to give the opportunity (to those who cannot see them live) to see them from home.
unfortunately there are often contracts and "dubious" things involved so ridiculous products come out that make us laugh bitterly. (big budget -> awful results)
(an example was a ridiculous and shameful historical video game whose name I won't mention)
Congratulations for the work done.
I am looking forward into the future for virtual reality enables traveling back in time. Gosh, hope it will be photorealistic... ❤😊😅
It's interesting, if these buildings had remained in uninterrupted use for 2500 years, they would have been subject to a constant cycle of periodical renovation, but when the original proprietors neglect their upkeep for a couple thousand years, we shy away from restoring them...
Shit man, I dunno how much do thwy pay you, but for the work you do you deserve a crazy raise. models like these, used in tourism with VR or AR could bring to a mesmerizing experience for everybody
impressive work. just burnt my laptop watching render image
Make persepolis!! The ceremonial capital of the Persian empire. Or make the Forbidden City in China!
OP: now imagine if the goverment put a QR to scan at the temple, and people could see your rendered model transposed over the site itself, and walk through it, with Mixed reality (phones or headsets), that would be awesome ! the vuforia engine can do that in unity or something
make a company out of it, model, render with vuforia, sell it to historical sites and museums (licensed per visit, like $0.5, $1, per virtual visit or something to govs and agencies, they can fund it and make it free, or choose to make users pay for it, that would be awesome for school trips, tourism...)
I wish government would repair these buildings, and not just youtubera on their computer.
I'd love to know how these structures even collapsed leaving only 3 pillars.
There must have been a really angry mob which got tired 😅
Very inspiring and amazing project. Even though I think it's such a waste that all of this is only for a single frame image 😢😢
HI. nice video and excelent work, it would be awesome to visit this kind of place and will see it with all of its glory. I think now it will possible with VR, imagine the people in the place can rent a Quest 3 or other visor... donwload the renders and visit the place with passtrough tecnologie, seeing all the buildings as new with all historical info... the next level of turistic guidance in historical places.
I hope some day could see this tecnics with my own eyes.
Best regards.
I've used Blender for a bit over 100h. I couldn't model the basic base of that temple. This guy probably wrote the program and then used it for 10000 hours.
Does this guy really exist? 🤣 Bro, I challenge you to recreate the Great Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek based on the six columns that still remain.
I'd love to do mixed reality tours around historically significant places. Imagine you had something like a Meta Quest VR headset or whatever, and you could walk around historical venues and you can use 3D rendered storytelling to chronicle the story of a place. You could fast forward 1000s of years right in front of your eyes.
Excellent work. Have you looked into the proportional system used in classical architecture? It is common to claim the golden ratio is everywhere but some say this did not exist in architectural theory before the renaissance. Whole number ratios were used at least since Plato, as used in Ptolemy's Helikon. The tetrachord produces a series of rational or whole number ratios.
Not my normal thing BUT, Wow this was hypnotic ❤ amazing all of it, even though I had no idea what was said. 😂
Don't forget the bright colours classical buildings used to be painted. 😉
@hbitproject - have you done jobs for conservation authorities or similar?
This is amazing! Could you do the same with the Great Sphinx?
The temples, ornaments and statues were painted. The colour was important and the temples were certainly not all-white...
Great High End Blender Tutorial 🔥😎🙏👍
Well you didn’t actually restore it did you. You just made a digital picture. That is not restoring a physical structure now is it?
Ahh. One day I hope with technology I will be able to walk through Ancient Rome in VR.
NIce work! Glad to see this; such an attractive building.
I wish there was a QR code with the information sign on all the historical sites. We could use the mobile to view an augmented reality on top of the ruin, having a much more imersive experience
Wow!
I wonder what would have happened if the Romans had had access to Blender or your talent? 🤔😁
What tool measurements are you using? It seems you have not activated that "add measures" window under the view tab. So I am curious what it might be.
So where is the color? You know these things where painted, right?