BBC News Studios Recreations

Okay, but only if Comments and Criticism are Welcome...

If you had posted this latest update FIRST instead of all the crap in the rest of the thread then i may have been slightly impressed... but only slightly.

I am not convinced of the accuracy of these studio designs. On the plus side, you rendered it which has improved them massively from what they could have been. BUT... you will need to do much better, including Lighting them correctly.

The backdrops on N6 & TC7 are terrible copy paste jobs, i would expect you to have recreated the backdrop as well as the actual set. Apparently the version of N8 you are recreating is in a different Television Centre, which would explain why the room behind the studio is a different shape and size and layout. I dont know enough about N9 to comment on that one.

If you are going to continue with this mock (all signs seem to point to that) then you should make more effort to get ONE of the studios looking Perfect instead of working on Four at the same time.

To make the desk more 'round', right click on a curve, then click 'Entity Info' and change 'Number of Segments' to a high number, 250 or higher, and it gives the desk etc a more realistic look

...and you would know because your Sketchup mocks have all got five stars because they are so good?

Personally I think the best way is to stretch a circle shape into an oval instead of using curved lines.

Feedback on the mock:

Your N6 mock has the basic shape down but a lack of texture/render means it doesn't look anywhere close to real. The N6 chairs are grey and aren't black leather ones. The camera angles you have shown are as if the camera is right in the presenter's face. The N6 desk doesn't have pointed edges, try what I've said above.

The N9 mock is completely lacking in detail. The newsroom bears no resemblance to N9 whatsoever. The desk also has the same problem. The plasma screen is only on the left side of the studio, is a lot bigger and is not on a stand.

I have to agree with Drew, in terms of making a circular desk and stretching it so it's more of an oval.

In terms of the mock, I'm not convinced about how good a recreation it is. The basic elements are there, but textures need to be added, etc.

Also, I believe recreating a studio is only really useful for practice. If you're going to do an actual studio mock, then do something new.

For example, I've been looking at a way of re-aligning the Nations studios for next year when News moves to BH.



Now, this is unfinished, and I haven't looked at fitting into the dimensions for one of the Nations actual studios yet, but it takes cues from the BH renders, and I believe it to look respectable. Surely this is the kind of thing you should be looking at - and then you can't get shot down for inaccuracies in the design, at least.

Yes that's what I do, but sometimes it comes out eith rough edges, so doing the Entity Info method smooths it out.

Unfixed is at 24 segments, Fixed is at 240 segments.

Thanks for all the comments, I have taken what you have said on board and in future will create mocks and not recreations.