Well, my friends, it is finally here! It has been months in the making, and there are problems galore with the model, but it’s done for now.
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COMING SOON
I have been working on this feverishly for a long time now. Most of this year so far to be sure. This project and one coming in November are solely responsible for my lack of videos this year.
September 27 – October 3 of this year, the week after next, we will be studying the dedication of the Kirtland Ohio Temple in the ‘Come Follow Me’ program. So, as I have done with Independence Missouri Temple, I am just finishing work on a 360° virtual tour of the Kirtland Ohio Temple as it would have looked at the time it was dedicated.
The video will be published this coming Wednesday, 22 September, around 6:00 PM MST, so it will be available in time for the following weeks Spread the news, and Subscribe to my YouTube channel so you can get notified when it goes live!
Kirtland Temple Documentary
You may remember a while back I talked about a commission in which I produced the West end pulpits of the Kirtland Temple. These pulpits here:
The work was for a Documentary produced by BYUTV titled “America’s Sacred Ground: Kirtland.” The team who made the documentary was able to get permission to film in Kirtland Temple. However, as happens during post production, the decision was made to add a scene featuring Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery praying at the pulpits. They had some footage for the scene, but not all of it. So instead of flying back out and resetting for the scene, they filmed on green-screen, and inserted my model after the fact. Here is my model in the scene:
If you wish to watch the whole documentary, you can see it here
https://www.byutv.org/ – Kirtland
Starting at the 43:16 mark you will see this scene.
An Update on the Update: Kirtland Temple
I have finished with the Model for Kirtland, at least as far as is needed for this project. I have brought you some photos to show the finished product. I did not texture the model, as they will be adding the textures themselves.
I should also mention that this is from photographs only. I had no measurements, no digital scan, nothing like that. All of this is from comparing where things lined up with each other in photos, and scaling details until they lined up with each other.
Sometimes, when doing a model, you fake bend and curve of geometry using images that create shadows and highlights on flat surfaces. There is one instance of that, on the top edge of the topmost arch. The rest of this is actual reconstructed mesh in the shape of the original!
Just a general update
I’m a little excited. There is a very good chance that by the end of this year I will have modeled all the temples. I am still working, and I should have a few more videos ready for you all to see in the next few weeks, but in the meantime, I had a special request come through this weekend that I have been working on. I want to show you how it is turning out. This is probably the most complex thing I have done to date, and I think that says a lot. Now, keep in mind, I’m not done yet… :
For those who might not know, this is my digital reconstruction of the west end pulpits in the Kirtland Temple.
Update:
Thought I would add a detail shot for you to see:
Columbus Ohio Temple Model
Model and video for the Columbus Ohio Temple.