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yes! it rotated once every 15 minutes in the 70s to early-mid 80s (there's a really good 1976 photo showing this!!), then the mechanism broke for the first time leading to the once-every-24-hour rotation speed until potentially around 86-89 when the mechanism locked up, leaving it 'dormant' until the 1999 renovations (when the plaza tiles were changed from marble to granite) the sphere mechanism was fixed, then they made it rotate per 1 hour (there was a late 1999 or 2000 video confirming this btw) before it... broke again or they decided to not turn it on

by 2001 it was pretty much stopped but i chose to make the sphere rotate here to showcase that little fact HAHA

fr fr if this place still existed today id probably be there all afternoon till early nighttime maybe by the planter benches with notebook in hand just sketching anything

very true. about time that we remember that death means there was life, and life after all deserves celebration. also yeah, idk why but these things in general- historical places that are long gone- tend to call my soul in? (or at least that's what my friends tell me). idk, but i love to try and breathe life to these places and make people experience this from the human eye. ...hence the little story segue that i did here where it's a couple recording themselves during their night date~~

@@chaeyeonieearts oh, my 'soul' definitely lives within that complex. I own a tiny piece of it in a box under my bed so I always feel connected to it. Plus I make models and have pictures of them dotted around the house. Thank you for your story.

thank you so much !! seeing yall slowly fill up my energy bar ngl (i rely on bursts of hyperfixation energy/inspiration to do this AAAAAHHHH)

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EEEPPPP ty tysm !!

thank you so much !!

thanks a lot !! <3

oml i would love to!! thank you.

also on a side note cosplaying is one of my hobbies and im thinking of virtually visiting the complex to do some photoshoots there 😳😳 i hope doing that would remind ppl that this place was once alive and a beautiful place to do many things after all

thank you so much! its really nice knowing that for a brief moment people could get to experience what its like in there ~

hold on being compared to t:hg when there's so many amazing wtc projects out there (and dare i say, they do it better) i feel... honored??? thank you for that. also thank you 🥺🥺 i appreciate that too

🥺🥺YKW. yeah. (why do i feel more ambitious or something but i still have ways to learn before getting there HELP)

@@chaeyeonieearts I'd help you if I could but I'm hopeless with technology. Good luck with your journey 😊

🥺🥺 i really wish i got to see it for myself tbh i saw a home movie by a filipino family during their 2000 visit. i was nearly in tears because in another world that could have been my own :'> hearing my language spoken while under that place's shadow was a moving experience fr thank you. im glad (and i hope that for one brief moment), they're still standing and completing nyc.

@@chaeyeonieearts I went on the roof of it as a child back in 1994, and I was fourteen when they were destroyed here in NYC. I sadly witnessed their destruction. I still have 9/11 trauma. Looking back on WTC videos helps with the trauma, but on the anniversary, the tears flow.

thank you so so much !!! 🤍🤍

THANK YOU 🥺🥺 oml im so so glad that i got to portray what i want here. its a reminder- no- showcase, that this place made 3 decades of memories, after all. people worked there, people came and went, people made memories, laughed, cried, had dates, or even just shared memories by making a quick stop at one of the mall food stalls. idk. yeah, that day happened. i just watched an entire recording of the news and despite the fact i wasnt even born when that day happened i still feel shock and just *shudder* when i see images unprepared :'> i hope i also got to give tribute too. we mourn the place's loss, but with death was once life, and life deserves to be celebrated too 🤍

thank you so much !! aaa once i learn stuff and hit specific milestones then ill think about doing that 🤍

ty ty!! ~

EEEEE THANK YOU SM !! i rendered this using twinmotion. began the model using sketchup ~!

thank you soo much 🥹🤍🤍

tbf it has outdoor plaza vibes HAHA so. uhh yeah :'> (side note i love the timing when the chorus began and the fountains also started popping off)

AND. AND. UHMMM i can definitely see why it's the environmental channel. because it fits??? funny enough??

WAIT HI fancy seeing you here, also saw your video with the hi-8 footage thank you 🥹🥹 im planning more stuff soon but im slowing down by quite a bit--

@@chaeyeonieeartsDoes this include 7WTC and the bridge connecting it to the plaza?

@@idk-cb8di yes! all 7 buildings and necessary details will have exteriors modeled to detail might attempt interior and mall, but it feels like a daunting task ngl

@@chaeyeonieearts It would also be amazing to model the Twin Towers 2 that many people wanted instead of the freedom tower, if you can

mmmmm yeah, that's the thing about time i guess. imo there's something nice about older things that newer stuff cant match tbh and. fun fact--- if they were built in the ph instead of ny, it would become a presumed cultural property as based on our heritage laws because 2023 is 50 years from 1973~~ so yeah. my point is all over the place HAHA but again there's something about older things that draw me in fr also thank you so much !!

@@chaeyeonieearts yeah me too, i really like old ships and old planes from 1900s but idk i just feel like the twin towers wouldnt fit the modern manhatan, thats my opinion.

um, it opened in 1973

@@prismaticmarcus i know, but i feel like it looks more like the 80-90s buildings but while also beeing just too 90s compared to the rest of manhatan

Old like the empire state building? Nobody says that building is old.... Twin towers are more futuristic

EEEEKKK im only good at modelling unfortunately (i still have. yet to actually learn how to properly prepare something for a game :'> much less do stuff like animating and all) will hit ya up if i ever get to that point tho!!

@@chaeyeonieearts oh yeah , well the models are wonderful! Thanks

thank you so much!! yes i do feel proud, for a project that literally began because of an impulsive decision-? *even if this wip video is pretty unpolished and there are some things i would've changed to make this one better* :'>

hopefully, when i actually learn how to use UE and make this. not. lag. id probably do something like that! right now much of it still needs polishing :'> . . . . . . also unrelated side note helL YEAH I LOVE FELLOW LESBIAN REPRESENTATION 😳🥺🥺🤍

@@chaeyeonieearts TYYY and alright!

@@kansasstatealerting2424 TEEHEE (dont mind me i just felt a little happier HAHA)

@@chaeyeonieearts lol it's alright

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would have to figure out a way to get this working in ue first!! but i might, im not sure. yet. im only good at modelling, but i still have to learn UE 🥹 thank you sm tho ~🤍

Maybe you could reach out to the Titanic: Honor and Glory team and ask them how to use UE, especially when it comes to the VR aspect. They might even help out on your WTC project, considering they’ve also worked on other tragedies besides Titanic, such as the Broker Train Derailment of Woodbridge, NJ

@@Jigger_Chucker_9000 MMMMMM real, actually im alr moots with some in certain social media sites but honestly i feel a little shy T_T plus. theyre. uhhhhh busy too? so yeah BUT i really wanna team up w/ them indeed if any opportunity comes up fr

@@chaeyeonieearts i know how to use ue

i just really suck bu i know how to get 3d models in

thank you so much !! 🤍

thank you!! 🤍

@@chaeyeonieearts your very underrated idk how do you not have alot of views yet

i really wish so (part of me wants to pretend they're still here :3)

@@chaeyeonieearts I actually created in my head a fantasy world where my fursona was in New York City getting his minor passport renewed in the summer of 2001 - just a month or two before 9/11 - at the New York City office of the US State Department on the campus of the World Trade Center, after which his guardian took him to enjoy lunch at the Windows on the World on the 107th floor of the North Tower. However, due to the restaurant's strict formal dress code at the time and the blatant disregard and contempt my Buttskis have for any kind of regulation on how they choose to dress, we were forced to opt for one of the more casual establishments on the 106th floor of the South Tower. In this fantasy timeline, the Twin Towers survived 9/11 because the original scenes associated with it in my head depict 9/11 as nothing more than a small plane (probably a Cessna 172) flying into the buildings as a result of extremely poor weather conditions: dense fog and a line of tornado-warned supercell thunderstorms. The small plane had mechanical issues that limited its speed to just a few miles per hour above the stall velocity, so in addition to the buildings designed in an alternate reality to withstand an impact from a Concorde at Mach 2, a little Cessna flying at all of 65 miles per hour wasn't going to do much beyond break a few windows and slightly dent the perimeter columns at an impact level of the 108th floor of the North Tower, which also happened to ignite a natural gas cloud on those floors. This fantasy timeline saw the restaurant get renamed to Windows on America and had its onerous reservation system and dress code abolished; gone were the days of having to reserve your table up to two months in advance and having to dress in a full tuxedo and dinner jacket to eat there. On top of everything, this alternate timeline has the terrorists apprehended before they could get on the planes.

@@chaeyeonieeartsI actually created in my head a fantasy world where my fursona was in New York City getting his minor passport renewed in the summer of 2001 - just a month or two before 9/11 - at the New York City office of the US State Department on the campus of the World Trade Center, after which his guardian took him to enjoy lunch at the Windows on the World on the 107th floor of the North Tower. However, due to the restaurant's strict formal dress code at the time and the blatant disregard and contempt my Buttskis have for any kind of regulation on how they choose to dress, we were forced to opt for one of the more casual establishments on the 106th floor of the South Tower. In this fantasy timeline, the Twin Towers survived 9/11 because the original scenes associated with it in my head depict 9/11 as nothing more than a small plane (probably a Cessna 172) flying into the buildings as a result of extremely poor weather conditions: dense fog and a line of tornado-warned supercell thunderstorms. The small plane had mechanical issues that limited its speed to just a few miles per hour above the stall velocity, so in addition to the buildings designed in an alternate reality to withstand an impact from a Concorde at Mach 2, a little Cessna flying at all of 65 miles per hour wasn't going to do much beyond break a few windows and slightly dent the perimeter columns at an impact level of the 108th floor of the North Tower, which also happened to ignite a natural gas cloud on those floors. This fantasy timeline saw the restaurant get renamed to Windows on America and had its onerous reservation system and dress code abolished; gone were the days of having to reserve your table up to two months in advance and having to dress in a full tuxedo and dinner jacket to eat there. On top of everything, this alternate timeline has the terrorists apprehended before they could get on the planes.

cant wait for the modders to speedrun modding the twins into the game fr fr (also tysm! 🤍)

thank you so much!! its still far from complete, but im so glad yall appreciate it 🤍

thank you so much!!

thank you!! 🥺 cant wait to make a newer version, so many things and tweaks since i made this. definitely church street and the lower plaza buildings should be modeled when i do make it ~ but right now im gonna rest for a bit HAHA

Also known as the Icecream Truck Song. You did wonderful with everything including SkyGate, Ideogram, WTC Tapestry, Cloud Fortress, everything sculpture wise."

@@WORLDTRADECENTERMUZAKCHANNEL AWWWW THANK YOUUUUUU!! (its insane how w4sp and co. found it istg, oh and im also in the discord btw !!) tho i still havent modeled the foreplaza (and cloud fortress yet,,,) but yeah.

@@chaeyeonieearts Oh whats ur username!

@@WORLDTRADECENTERMUZAKCHANNEL same as here!!

@@chaeyeonieearts kathryna ?