Oakland California Temple

Oakland California Temple video

I have uploaded my video of the Oakland California Temple. I meant to upload a different video, but I had a problem with floating trees and decided to rerender, sot his one was ready and it took it’s place.

Oakland California Temple

Click the image below to go to my Oakland Temple page and learn more about this video and about the history and details of the Oakland Temple.

Oakland California

Thursday at Oakland California

Back at Oakland California Temple.

Just working my way down from the spires. Today I added the tree of life motif to the spires.

It looks like a simple bit of geometry, but it’s not. Getting one set done inspired my and I pushed my way through to getting all 5 spires finished. I also had some time a few months back when I worked on Oakland and I added the North Frieze and the inscriptions to the north side of the temple.

Development images

Saturday at Oakland California

I have been dreading this one, slightly. Mainly because of the fantastically detailed spires. I assumed they would be difficult, and it turned out I was right. I tried 7 different ways to automatically generate the details, but could not get the parameters I needed to work. So then I hand built one by hand, only to notice after the fact that the details are strikingly deceptive, and that what looks like rungs sticking out of the sides of the spire are in fact overhangs and insets. None of that probably made any sense to you. Anyway, here is last months render:

And here is today’s, upon which I spent all my time on the not yet finished spires:

And just for fun, here are the insanely detailed and still not finished spires: