Last year a professional 3D artist from North Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»focused his talents to create an incredible cinematic look at Vancouver’s architecture dating back to the early 1900s.
Between co-designing a drum set for the late Rush drummer Neil Peart and working on Oscar-winning films like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Brian Walters’ name is credited in some of the most recognizable films of the last decade. Such titles include Men in Black: International, The Emoji Movie, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hotel Transylvania 1 and 2, Edge of Tomorrow and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.
In September of 2020, Walters released a rendering that depicted Georgia and Granville Streets in 1930s Vancouver. The video is the first in a series he calls Relics Reborn, in which he takes on the persona of a time-travelling videographer.
“This is the first bit of footage I've brought back with my time machine,” Walters writes of the video. “This doesn't depict any certain year, more of a greatest hits of bye-gone buildings of the early 1900s.”
Walters then posed a challenge to other time-sleuths to figure out which buildings didn’t necessarily belong in the decade depicted. The video ends with a certain gull-winged car from the 1980s making a fiery set of tracks before vanishing into thin air on Howe Street.
