3D Nature Video Visualization on Wildfire Defensibility

   The project was primarily built from GIS data using 3D Nature's Visual Nature Studio (
http://3dnature.com/vnsinfo.html ), with the majority of the houses built using the Walls
component. Four "hero" houses that would be focused on were modeled in detail from photos
using Newtek's Lightwave 3D( http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/index.php ). The scene was
then exported using Scene Express to Lightwave, where the hero houses were added, and
rendered. Smoke and fire effects were added in post using Particle Illusion 3 from
Wondertouch ( http://www.wondertouch.com/ ).

   You can view the video here (100Mb!):
http://3dnature.com/anim/IBHS_h264-audio.mov

   A news segment about the project, featuring a short clip of the animation is here:
http://www.abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=6280737