Exterior Architectural Renderings: August 2017

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Digital Watercolor

Here is a Photoshop action that turns my digital architectural renderings into a digital architectural watercolor rendering. It's awesome!

Now, coming from traditional media I know this isn't close to being as awesome as a really well-done water color, but heck, it took about a minute. Please, if you would like to know more leave me a comment below. If you fill out my contact form I will ignore it.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Kitchen Renderings

I have been doing a lot of interior renderings lately, specifically, kitchen renderings. For the most part, kitchen renderings are the moct complex of interior spaces to render. These, however, are pretty simple one.

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Thursday, August 10, 2017

The Rambler Interior Rendering

Working back and forth with the builder, with a couple of iterations, here are the Rambler interior renderings. Starting with CAD files, I build a gray-scale model, which shows the basic geometry and initial composition. Once the gray-scales are approved, I start adding colors and materials, sending low-resolution proofs along the way. Dialing into everything each iteration brings us to this final high-resolution architectural rendering of the Rambler.

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Friday, August 4, 2017

Perfect 3DS MAX Roof

Recently, I was asked about how I build my 3DS MAX roofs. Since I have been asked several times before I thought I would record how I build them.

The secret is told. I learned this from deconstructing the roofs created by a script I found over at DigitalxModels.com, however, the script stopped working a long time ago, so I can't use it anymore. Since the script is broken in later MAX versions, I dug into one I already built, using the script, and found that it was rather simple. I couldn't figure out how it was mapping things so well until I discovered 3DS MAX's map scaler, which was the missing piece to the 3D Displacement roof script.

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

One South Interior Rendering

The longest single project on record!

My first contact left the company early in the project, which happens, however, her replacement also left soon after. Now, months later, I am working with yet another person and each person had their own vision for the project. Once I thought things were dialed down I find out the image will be reviewed by the decision maker. After a few dozen revisions (only contracted for two sets of revisions), the decision maker leaves 16 comments.

Anyway, the project is done, at least as far as I know. It was a lot of work for such a small space. Every piece was hand modeled from photo references and it came down to nudging things inches to where the client was pleased. Literally, I signed in April and now, in August we are wrapping things up.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Benson Street House Rendering

These smaller houses are a pleasure to illustrate. Here, the owner had an idea what colors he wanted for his new construction, but he wanted to see it first. To me, and I do have a bias, the dollar amount invested in a rendering is well justified to study not only design but color. Apparently, I nailed the siding, trim and window colors the first round. We added a few windows and played with shutter colors.

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1650 Comm Ave. Renderings

Here are the architectural renderings for 1650 Comm Ave. project. The project is currently under construction and these images will be used for pre-sale and marketing.

Typically, and per my contract, all custom furniture modeling is quoted separately. However, there were some miscommunications between the party I entered into the contract with and the design team, so I went ahead and modeled each of the assets used in the scene.

For almost all my work I am the creative lead. This architectural rendering, however, I was just following directions. Without having much say in things and not working with the party I entered into the contract with, things took a long time and personally, not the feel I would go for. Sometimes you have to remember that your client has to be happy more than you do, but I do try to make each of my renderings a portfolio piece, so I take it personally.

Anyway, any comments on this project would be appreciated. HEck, maybe I have been looking at in for far to long and it might have turned out better than these eyes are seeing.

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