Little white houses are the best! White isn’t easy in a rendering. You might be surprised to know how dark I have to get the white we would expect.
Like photography, which is basically what I do, but virtually, you don’t want any 100% white or any 100% black. So if I made a pure white material (255, 255, 255), it would be washed out and overexposed. To get a white, as you see here, I have to create a gray material (140, 140, 140).
This client chooses to have a twilight rendering for each house, along with a series of final grayscales. Often, the design is tweaked after reviewing their renderings, so the initial grayscale proofs are updated and delivered at the end.
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