Exploring Drafting, 12th Edition

15 minutes of fame! About a year ago the Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc company approached me about having some of my work being used in their latest CAD textbook, which is called Exploring Drafting, 12th Edition. I was glad to provide a few architectural renderings and here is one of the pages in their Exploring Drafting, 12th Edition textbook, using one of my architectural renderings.

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Row Boat Museum Rendering

This is a fundraiser rendering. for the Ashland community: Marriage of modern & rustic/natural environment. The owner is hoping to have this project be a local & tourist attraction, both to get people outside & to highlight the local community.This first run is only one single image, where accuracy is not important, only the overall feeling.

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Meadowgate Architectural Rendering

Hillsdale Houses

Tennessee is hot! I have done 1/2 dozen architectural renderings for various architects and designers in TN, over the past few months. This one turned out great, I think!

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The Bullock Residence

This is was a pleasant project to work on. I had a drop-dead deadline, which I committed to, but colors and materials got to me kind of late. Nevertheless, I worked all weekend and pulled all-nighters, and met the dead-line. I really enjoy my job and it really isn't a sacrifice, other than time away from the family, but having a studio out of the house helps a lot with that.

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New York Mansion Rendering

These mansion renderings , that I have been creating, are really some of my favorites.  Once I receive the brief and CAD drawings, I build the model, which usually takes 2-3 days and then I render out some gray-scale proofs. Once the proofs are approved, I start adding colors and materials, and I then send off low-resolution proofs. During both the gray-scale and color proofs, the design is usually messaged; once you see the renderings, you have time to really take in the architecture and make changes that you didn't know needed to be made. Environment and composition is my favorite part and once everything is approved, a render out 4K high-resolution finals.

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Brighton Home Renderings

Great Canadian client with great little house designs. 

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Nashville, TN Apartment Rendering

The developer, of this Nashville, TN apartment renderings, wanted it to look urban. The surrounding houses and the electrical wires were used to do that very thing, make it look like an urban area.

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Client Referrals

11 Exeter Street Interior Renderings

Here, the designer is responsible for all architecture and branding of the building. The designer needs renderings for pre-sell purposes. The renderings will be used on the building's website and in marketing materials. The purpose of the renderings is to give buyers a realistic idea of the level of finishes and size of the units.

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Applewood House Rendering

Here is a project that I just sent off to the client. The Architect commissioned me to illustrate the home for the Design Review Panel for permitting and for marketing.

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iPad Pro 12.9"

My experience with the iPad Pro 12.9". Awesome! Because of the large screen real estate you get a much heavier device and shorter battery life, but the tradeoff is worth it. The Apple Pencil is also awesome. Since it was made for the iPad Pro, it is seamless. I have tried almost every stylus, both cheap and expensive, and none worked well. The keyboard is also done very well. The keys are solid and integrated into the smart cover. When you fold the keyboard backwards, it goes away. I would like illuminated keys and a sound control, but other than that it is worth the money.

Now, about money. Not many people have a grand to drop, so it isn't for everyone. Luckily, for me, I can write it off. It isn't a laptop replacement like the Surface Pro; it is just a larger iPad. The iPad starts at $799, the smart keyboard cover is $169 and the pencil is $99. If it were a laptop replacement, the price would be a bargain, but since it isn't, it's an expensive way to surf the web

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Chicago Townhouse Interior Rendering

One of my favorite clients, Z Feng Architect and Company. I actually worked with Zisong, while working for Lowenberg & Associates, out of Chicago. Both Zisong and I left Loewenberg, I believe I left first, and we reconnected on LinkedIn many years later.

Awhile back, probably one year ago, I worked on the exterior of the Morse building. Just the other day Zisong reached out to me for the interior.

Yes, those are pokemon pillows on the couch :)

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Townhouse Renderings

These townhouse renderings came together nicely and I hope you agree. Originally, the architect reached out to me with the need for a single structure design, which I was glad to illustrate for him. The project has since fallen into the developers hands, and they have an opportunity to expand the project.

Over the past week, I worked hard to create something that I think will help them with their marketing.

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Tiny House Renderings

It's all the craze, tiny houses, at least my wife and son love them. Here, are tiny cabins, which are the coolest thing.

Earlier this month I was asked to create some images, which will be on the manufacturers website, that will wow potential customers.

It was a challeneg that I hope that I achieved.

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House Renderings

When our Canadian neighbors reach down from above, to contract work, they are willing to pay a premium, which is a feel good moment. Here, are some recent homes I illustrated for a Canadian builder. 

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Mansion 4 Architectural Rendering

Mansion 4, not a fancy project name, however, it is a fancy house. These architectural renderings was created for pre-sales, so it's currently in the design phase.

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V-Ray SP4 is out!

Build 3.40.01 (official) (31 May 2016)
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New features:
(*) V-Ray: Add support for 3ds Max 2017 including:
- Initial support for the new Physical Material;
- Support for MultiTile in V-Ray RT;
- Support for ColorMap in V-Ray RT;
- VFB: Initial HiDPI scaling support;
(*) VRayDenoiser: Implement a new render element that contains a denoised version of the image:
- The denoiser can take advantage of hardware acceleration;
- The denoised result can be adjusted after a render is complete;
- The denoised result is updated periodically during progressive rendering;
- The render elements required by the denoiser are automatically added;
(*) vdenoise.exe: A new command-line tool for denoising still images and animations with frame blending;
(*) V-Ray: Enable GI by default;
(*) V-Ray: Add another deep output fragment merge mode, "None", where fragments are not merged at all;
(*) V-Ray: Add "layers" type to override material exclude list;
(*) V-Ray: Add refraction filter bake element;
(*) V-Ray: Lower tessellation rate for out-of-view hair and displaced/subdivided geometry to save RAM in heavy scenes;
(*) V-Ray: Move the VRayHDRI's Tiled textures options from the material editor's interface to the V-Ray's Settings tab;
(*) V-Ray: Print a warning if "Show GI only" is enabled;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Add support for Orthographic camera;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Add support for bump with procedural Noise texmap;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Print the memory usage in the VFB statistics;
(*) VFB: Add option to enable auto-saving to history if the render completed normally (i.e. is not aborted);
(*) VFB: Add option to keep the VFB history folder relative to the current project path;
(*) VRayAerialPerspective: Add "filter color" parameter;
(*) VRayIES: Add an option to select luminous intensity in candelas (cd);
(*) VRayInstancer: Add option to override the node properties of the source objects;
(*) VRayStochasticFlakesMtl: Add textured flakes support;
(*) VRayStereoscopic: Add support for vertical placement of the left/right views in addition to side-by-side;
(*) VRayTriplanarTex: Add random modes: "By particle ID"/"By instance ID" support;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: Implemented ability to pop out and enlarge the render diagrams;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: Implemented different interpolation types per point in the render diagrams;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: Implement motion blur clipping by the Cutter geometry for non-Mesh modes;
(*) .vrscene exporter: Show progress bar instead of "not responding" during export to .vrscene;
(*) V-Ray scene converter: Convert rectangle/sphere/disc photometric lights without web profile to the corresponding V-Ray lights;
(*) V-Ray Installer: Attempt to uninstall previous installation without registry record;
(*) V-Ray Installer: Installation options can be set from the command-line;
(*) ply2vrmesh.exe: Store the textures names used by OBJ files into user attributes;
(*) vrayspawner.exe: Make it possible to run V-Ray from a remote location;

 

Modified features:
(*) V-Ray: Faster rendering with the light cache;
(*) V-Ray: Blend the "Fixed" and "Adaptive" sampler UI into a "Bucket" image sampler;
(*) V-Ray: Enable support for processor groups and more than 64 CPU cores by default;
(*) V-Ray: Rename "Color threshold" to "Noise threshold" in the Adaptive image sampler;
(*) V-Ray: Add texmap shortcut buttons next to colors for plugins with automatically generated UI
(*) V-Ray: Add UI mode views switching for the Image Sampler rollout;
(*) V-Ray: Make the DR settings window with persistent size;
(*) V-Ray: Remove the "Adaptive subdivision" sampler from the UI
(*) V-Ray: Slow rendering of objects visible behind multiple panes of glass;
(*) V-Ray: The log messages window text and background match the 3ds Max color scheme;
(*) VRayLight: Streamline the UI rollouts;
(*) VRayLight: When assigning a new VRayHDRI or a Bitmap texture through the UI, automatically browse for a file and set the mapping to spherical environment;
(*) V-Ray RT: Add information about the current noise threshold to the render statistics;
(*) V-Ray RT: Enable region changes without restarting the render in RT;
(*) V-Ray RT: Enabled by default the rendering of Proxies, X-ref, Particle systems, Displacement and Motion Blur;
(*) V-Ray RT: Make override material independent for production and ActiveShade renderers;
(*) V-Ray RT: Optimize export of scenes with many instanced geometries with many faces;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Add "bias" spinners support for VRayDirt;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Improvement automatic texture resizing, leading to reduced memory usage and better quality;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Optimized rendering of VRayBlendMaterial;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Speed up loading of resized textures to the GPU;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU: Warn the user if all the GPUs they have are used for rendering;
(*) VFB: Added a button to open the V-Ray messages window;
(*) VFB: Show warning when images cannot be saved in the history;
(*) VFB: The MaxScript command "vfbcontrol #clearimage" should not trigger confirmation dialog;
(*) VRayDisplacementMod: Automatically calculate the "precision" parameter for 2d displacement mode;
(*) VRayDisplacementMod: Enable the "static geometry" option by default;
(*) VRayExposureControl: Bring back for 3ds Max 2016 and newer;
(*) VRayFur: Faster hair strands generation;
(*) VRayHDRI: Implement drag and drop of texture files from Windows Explorer to the file edit field;
(*) VRayMtl: Improved GGX/GTR sampling to reduce fireflies;
(*) VRayMtl: The "Anisotropy" spinner has a lower step;
(*) VRayProxy: Optimize rendering;
(*) VRayStochasticFlakesMtl: Improved importance sampling algorithm, removed the "texture subdivs" parameter;
(*) VRayStochasticFlakesMtl: Treat "num flakes" as square root of the number of flakes;
(*) VRaySun/VRaySky: Add "blend angle" and "horizon offset" options to the user interface;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid: Add option for changing the mesh preview color;
(*) V-Ray scene converter: Convert the 3ds Max Normal Bump map to VRayNormalMap;

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