The Teardrop Shot, Up Over the Giants
Explore the very best of the past 17 years of the Web in one beautiful, interactive place.
“Snow Fall” wins the People’s Voice award for Best Use of Interactive Video.
Caught in the Blast
The New York Times - print version breaking news graphic
Caught in the Blasts at the Boston Marathon
The New York Times - breaking news
Inside the Metropolitan’s Stage
New York Times Magazine
Site Where Man Was Pulled From the Mud
Breaking news, The New York Times
PAGE, Das Magazin der Kreativbranche
To create the avalanche simulation for Snow Fall, I mapped data captured by Swiss scientists of the actual avalanche onto a model of Cowboy mountain, produced by Jeremy White from LIDAR data. I used a camera in Maya to track the leading edge, and then combined several render passes in After Effects.
Here is what the raw data mapped to the mountain looked like in Maya:
Here is the framing from the camera, and the layering/styling done in After Effects:
The published piece:
A Record Hang Gliding Ride on the Texas Wind
An NYT multimedia project about Jonny Durand and Dustin Martin’s record breaking hang gliding trip.
2012 was a busy year for NYT Graphics. Here, highlights from the year on one page.
Last week I posted a video from Jeremy White, loosely describing how he turned LIDAR data into a stunning model of Tunnel Creek. But more modeling yet went into showing exactly where the avalanche happened and how it traveled. My colleague Graham Roberts added trees, elevation lines and an…
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