Newcastle University

Student creates innovative, immersive heritage experience with Arena4D

About the Client

Founded in 1871, Newcastle University is a Russell Group university in the UK offering higher education courses to over 28,000 students. With a particular focus on areas including cities, culture and creative arts, data, and the planet, Newcastle University prides itself on advancing human knowledge through creative solutions to global problems.

Newcastle University

Student creates innovative, immersive heritage experience with Arena4D

About the Client

Founded in 1871, Newcastle University is a Russell Group university in the UK offering higher education courses to over 28,000 students. With a particular focus on areas including cities, culture and creative arts, data, and the planet, Newcastle University prides itself on advancing human knowledge through creative solutions to global problems.

Challenge

Needed a way of combining multiple data types to visualise an innovative masters thesis

Needed to animate the data set to create a highly engaging presentation

Solution

Veesus Arena4D point cloud editing and animation software

Enables users to combine point clouds, photogrammetry, images, and audio into a single project

Result

A Masters degree in Architecture culminating in a refreshing and highly engaging presentation

High-quality animations offer even greater value to clients

Testimonial

“I’m glad I chose Arena4D to bring my thesis to life. Often in architecture the outputs require further explanation – but Arena4D changes that.”

Sophie Collins, MArch Masters Student 2017-2022, Newcastle University

Client Work

Arena4D’s animation features have enabled Sophie to strip away the exterior of the building in the animation, revealing the structure within.

View the finished animation of Sophie’s work, showing plans for the interactive archive superimposed on the point cloud data, with additional audio and visual clips.