CityEngine used in Blade Runner 2049

CityEngine used in Blade Runner 2049

Designers at Framestore used ArcGIS CityEngine to re-create portions of the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, as seen in the movie Blade Runner 2049. “We were tasked in creating a futuristic Las Vegas for the year 2049. We had to fly over the main strip of Vegas on a long sequence shot,” said Didier Muanza, lead environment TD, Framestore. “CityEngine seemed to be the best choice to help us generate a modern-day model of Vegas, which was used as the base for the futuristic version.” (via ArcGIS Blog)

And: “Framestore Montreal have been successful with CityEngine on Blade Runner 2049 which is coming out this week… 400 shots in total and lots of architecture design done with CityEngine: I strongly recommend you to check it out in an IMAX near you!” (Christophe Mesline, Framestore)