Animation of Manhattan luxury property data

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[OC] Animation of Manhattan luxury property data
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Animation showing just how many new luxury skyscrapers are being built over the next three years. A total of 3.5 miles of vertical height!

Sources of data are NYC Open Data and Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Tools used were QGIS, Blender and Adobe Illustrator

I created a digital elevation model using the building footprints and height data in QGIS, took this into Blender to create the buildings and animate them. Everything else was done in Illustrator and After Effects

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