How to animate a scene set at a real building
Give Vizard Agent a building's name and address and say what should happen there. Vizard Agent looks the place up, pulls exterior photographs from its website and from map listings, builds a reference sheet from what it finds, and generates the scene so the building in it resembles the real one.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Name the place precisely and the action plainly. Vizard Agent does the research itself, so a single sentence with a real address in it is a far more useful brief than a long description of a building it would otherwise have to invent. A name without a street and a town can be a different building somewhere else entirely.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
The first half of the run is research. Vizard Agent doesn't generate a generic building. It assembles a picture of what this one actually looks like from several public sources before generating anything, which is why the result resembles that place rather than a plausible one. In the session behind this article it:
- Loaded its film playbook, listed the available assets, looked up the real building's appearance and checked the cinematic and image generation options.
- Fetched the exterior from the organisation's own website and searched for building photographs and street-level imagery.
- Screenshotted the map listing, extracted its images and looked at the screenshot, then downloaded the exterior photographs and reviewed them, including a close-up.
- Created a combined family and location reference sheet and reviewed it.
- Generated the arrival scene, tiled its frames for review, analysed the motion and audio, and mixed music under the final render.
- Listened back to the final mix and reviewed the frames as a contact sheet before delivering 10.1 seconds at 1280x720 and 24fps.
When does this not work well?
Depicting a real place is a claim about that place. The result resembles the building, but details will be wrong, so don't present it as footage, and use it only for your own organisation. Published photographs may be dated, poorly photographed buildings generate poorly, and generated people are generic: a family, not your congregation.
Common questions
Does it need photographs from me? No, if the building is photographed online. Send Vizard Agent your own if you have them, as they are always better.
How close is the resemblance? Close enough to be recognisable, not exact. Vizard Agent builds from reference photographs.
Can it show people I know? No. The people are generated. For real people, film them and Vizard Agent will cut that footage instead.