Hi
I'm a filmmaker and I would like to know if there are any resources, either commercial or free that would allow me to animate a real world region, specifically the San Francisco Bay area. I've been doing mockups using Google Earth, which is good but I find it can't generate smooth animations or fly throughs. The good part of Google Earth is I can fly to any area and get a good static picture, it's just that the motion isn't good enough.
I've seen a number of posts which suggest importing GIS information, and this is good, but there are a lot of buildings and other elements that would need to be created.
I'm wondering if a Terragen 'model' of regions exist. Thanks very much for any advice. Regards,
-Keith