How It’s Done: Procedurally Generated City
This is a step-by-step demo of a dynamically generated “big city” by Shamus Young. It’s long but worth it. More geekily fascinating info here.
BONUS HOW’D-THEY-DO-THAT:
Check out this scene progression from Pixar ‘Up’, from storyboard to final render. So much goes into these flicks, you can almost see why movie tix are now $300 a pop.