Fog City Test Footage (Vimeo)

A quick personal project to get back into the 3D world (yes, yes, I know the world doesn't need another fly through with corny music). I took a few images from google maps, put them together in photoshop. I then made selections and created paths from the roads and buildings based on colors from the map. I export the paths and brought into 3ds max. from there I extruded the faces to random heights. I did a few touch ups on certain things (Coit tower, Trans America, and Ferry building). The render was something like 20hrs I think (quad core). I also wanted to test the fog environmet. I will soon try to add elevation to the city... hills and what not, and replace the water material.