ROME: “WebGL: The Technology Behind ’3 Dreams of Black’”

Experience “3 Dreams of Black” at www.ro.me “3 Dreams of Black” is Chris Milk’s new interactive film, created in WebGL with some friends from Google, for Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi’s ROME, featuring Jack White & Norah Jones. The project is a Chrome Experiment (www.chromeexperiments.com that showcases some of the latest web technologies in modern browsers like Google Chrome. In building “3 Dreams of Black”, we’ve had the opportunity to build many tools, libraries, and models. We’ve fully opened up the source code and made it available for web developers to tinker with us at www.ro.me In addition to the code, a few other highlights include eight WebGL demos, a fun model viewer for interacting with some of the animals from the web experience, and the Three.js 3D library used for building the experience. In addition, a big part of the project was to define a good pipeline for getting all the animals and environment models right in WebGL — for this, we extended Blender with custom plugins so we could manipulate and export the data with ease.

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25 Responses to ROME: “WebGL: The Technology Behind ’3 Dreams of Black’”

  1. doosierty100 says:

    Yes… more biffalo are needed.?

  2. archangelsean says:

    about 0:24 anyone think he sounds like Craig Mabbitt? :p?

  3. 1stRome says:

    My fox isn’t plays,? but HTML5 must be!

  4. nils8950UTAUACC says:

    thumbs? up if you are watching this in the html5 player.

  5. Baegus says:

    1:27 -? Chrome closed, Firefox open. :D

  6. axelwickm says:

    It’s the? power of nerds!

  7. bwlucas says:

    Death to? flash.

  8. SilentDeadlyChicken says:

    Typical? mac user

  9. projecy says:

    I go to site, damn, no need flash to view Lee Perry-Smith 3D model, amazing. I? think adobe need bomb for their flash

  10. bando121 says:

    HIPSTER ALERT!!!?

  11. juliacotic says:

    One who walks in another tracks leaves no? footprints.

  12. andreeaweed says:

    i? update Chrome,? and’ll work fine thanks

  13. Shayd93 says:

    Watching this on Flash? player

  14. alexendfinger says:

    I love? this thing. F U Adobe Flash Player.

  15. therealpatros says:

    @herozsk yes!!!?

  16. MrChessepasta says:

    still in some low-poly stage, keep up the work. hopefully it can play gta4 in the? webby

  17. spinout182 says:

    Chrome just crashed trying to load it.?

  18. Tycholarfero says:

    R.I.P. Gustavo?

  19. djolepiv says:

    Amazing work! Well done? guys!

  20. Pirispanen says:

    This was one of the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a while. Truly amazing experience! Thank you!?

  21. yeomandroidify says:

    Can I play this on? my Chromebook?

  22. radicalpigon says:

    Loved the Companion Cube at the End!
    Apple has never? done something like that :D

  23. labobo says:

    i liked it
    what i liked best is shown at 01:09 and 01:46
    ?

  24. AjblueDesign says:

    @bindia103 nope, but instead they? created edge to embrace html, and i wouldn’t be surprised if adobe does create a 3d webgl editor

  25. chekwob says:

    My? browser is not a window manager.