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Local 3D artist recreates 'greatest hits' of Vancouver’s early architecture (VIDEO)

Not all the buildings existed at the same time together. Can you spot which ones are out of place?
Relics Reborn
Brian Walters is a 3D artist living in North Vancouver who worked Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and helped design a drum set for Neal Peart.

Last year a professional 3D artist from North Vancouver 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.