CLS, Immersive Environment for Train Industry (2002). Virtual model of CIVIA train for engineering purposes.

My first collaboration in a project at the GIGA group. In 2002 the CAF company decided to develop a virtual model of a train in order to test different design decissions like illumination, materials, shapes, etc.  If you have taken a CERCANIAS train in Sapin you will recognize the images shown below.

Exterior view of the train. rendered in Softimage XSI and integrated in a real shot of Villalba Station

Most of the project was developed in Softimage XSi with support of Phothoshop, Premiere, After effects and in-house software. A CAVE with three screens was built to project inmersive stereoscopic views of the train (shown below).

Two different views  of the CAVE: In full inmersive mode and with additional information displayed on the sides.

Indoor shots of the CIVIA virtual train. Degined by Giugiaro (italy) and rendered by our team