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Osprey Estate - Angela
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First, I got right to modeling the exterior and all the interior spaces, using 3DS MAX Design; the developer decided on five interiors. The plans were simple floor plans, without elevations or details, so that was a bit of a challenge. However, working back and forth with the developer, we worked through the design.
The Osprey Estate development will consist of four houses, this being the first of the four. Please, visit The Eaton Architectural Renderings. I'll post the other two when they are complete. Also, each house will have an exterior, which I'll update all posts with the exterior architectural renderings.
As previously mentions, I used 3Ds MAX Design to model, and for the rest of the technical mumbo jumbo, I used V-Ray as the render engine, and Photoshop for post production.
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The Ultimate Guide to Tonemapping
The Ultimate Guide to Tonemapping
A comprehensive tutorial showing all of the best options currently available for tonemapping your renders in post. All of the best programs are covered in detail, from Photoshop to Fusion and Nuke, as well as some specialised options such as Photomatix and Picturenaut.
The advent of Nuke non-commercial and the free version of Fusion means that
Whatever render engine you use, you can make a substantial difference to your renders, whether stills or footage, by tonemapping in post. To find out how, watch the trailer here.
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[Freebie] onOne Perfect Effects 9 Premium Edition
You can use it as a plug-in with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Apple Aperture, or as a standalone app.
You can now get a license and download for two computers for free (either or both Mac and PC).
- Features of Perfect Effects 9
- Library of professional quality photographic filters that can be previewed live on your image before being applied.
- Easily toggle the preview on/off to quickly see how your editing progresses. Also use the Quick View Browser for a full-screen gallery view of your looks applied to your photo.
- Stack filters to create your look. With a wide variety of filters to add different looks to your image, it's perfect for fine tuning and creating any look you want.
- Customizable presets for your look. The easiest way to save your look is by saving your stack of filters as a preset. This allows easy access to your look for all of your other photos!
- Smart photos allow you to save all your editing steps in case you need to re-edit later.
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5 Tips to Manage Your Freelance Career with Evernote
Whether you’re an author, designer, filmmaker, or any other type of freelancer, Evernote is the perfect tool to help you manage projects and keep you creatively thinking about future ones.
Here’s five tips to manage your freelance career with Evernote:
1. Organize Projects
Evernote is a perfect hub to store all the materials needed for any project and manage the many moving parts, deliverables and deadlines. Create a note for each individual project including plans and documentation. By creating tags for each, you can easily find notes related to projects quickly. Add Reminders with due dates to track milestones and deliveries.
2. Share the Knowledge
Whether you work alone, or with a team, Evernote makes it easy to send important information to colleagues or clients with Shared Notebooks.
3. Research
Collect all the elements of your research into one place. With the Evernote Web Clipper, you can easily transfer the information you find from the web directly into Evernote. In addition to saving the interesting things you see online, you can now switch into a reading view, add shapes and annotations to your clips and share your clips on social networks.
4. Record
Use Evernote to record audio conversations, important interviews or feedback sessions with clients. Audio Notes let you focus on what’s happening on the conversation. Afterwards, you can reference the material easily, and share it with others.
5. Never Forget Big Ideas
Freelancers are always looking for their next big project. Evernote is a perfect repository to capture those ideas. Try to save them into Evernote and tag them as ‘story ideas’ so you can rediscover them later. It’s perfect to capture photographs, quick notes and even audio recording, on the go. You never know when your next idea may be your next big pitch.
Evernote Tools You Can Use Right Now
The ScanSnap Evernote Edition Scanner for going paperless.
Skitch for communicating ideas and pointing out what’s important.
Evernote Business Notebooks for sketching ideas and writing notes by hand.
Post-it® Note Camera for capturing inspiration and ideas.
Evernote Web Clipper for capturing research and inspiration from the web.
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Proposed Mid-Rise Architectural Renderings
Sweat home Chicago! Here, is my latest architectural rendering of a mid-rise proposed for 1313 Morse Ave in Chicago, Il. It was, as always is, a pleasure to work with Architect, Zisong Feng.
“I had great pride presenting it to everybody!”
Mid-Rise Architectural Rendering
Mid-Rise Architectural Rendering
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Nashville, Tennessee Modern Architecture
I'm loving these modern structures going up, in Nashville, Tennessee, by Grant Hammond, Owner/Broker.
Nashville, Tennessee Day Rendering
Nashville, Tennessee Night Rendering
“Worked on 2 projects and about to do a 3rd. So far we are impressed.”
Grant approached me several months ago, after finding my work on-line, inquiring about price and workflow. I was told that the project architect did produce his own renderings, but they were more for design and less for marketing. I was glad to help by answering any questions, which I often do, and I didn't think much of it. After several month Grant's architect contacted me about illustrating a building for him and sure enough, Grant contacted me several weeks later to illustrate this awesome modern building.
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Real Boulders
REAL BOULDERS is the first boulder model library that deserves the right to be called “real”. The set of 15 highly realistic boulders are recreated from real world boulders via photogrammetry. The boulders have been photographed and meticulously recreated in 3D by using several methods and applications to ensure highest possible realism. Each boulder model is viewable from any angle so that it can be rotated for further variation. The models include high resolution 4k maps for DIFFUSE, REFLECTION, BUMP, DISPLACEMENT and NORMAL mapping and are available for several 3D applications and renderers for wide compatibility and easy-of-use.
Main Features
CONTENT, FORMATS and TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
- 15 highly detailed 3D models of large boulders
- 4k maps for DIFFUSE, BUMP, REFLECTION, NORMAL and DISPLACEMENT
- Ready-to-use preset libraries for Forest Pack Pro (3ds Max), MODO and CINEMA 4D
- 3Ds Max 2012 and above with vray 2.x or higher, Corona Renderer, mental ray, Octane Render 2.x, Scanline
- CINEMA 4D R16 (vrayforc4d, Corona Renderer, Octane Render, Advanced Render)
- MODO 801
- LightWave (version 9 or higher / Standard Renderer and Octane Render)
- OBJ format
- FBX 2012 format
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RailClone 2.4 New Features Tour
New RailClone 2.4: Faster and Easier to Use. Brand new UVW Xform operator, Evenly Count mode, Generator Padding, exportable size attributes and a host of new features to improve usability
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Download FREE collection of 76 highly detailed lamp models!
Archmodels vol. 152 available now in Evermotion Shop.
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These models are accurate recreations of FLASH DQ lights brand made by LUG Light Factory. Our CG artists spent hundreds of hours creating this collection and assuring that it provides the best possible quality in CG world. We prepared models in the widest range of formats ever.
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Nashville, Tennessee Modern Architecture 3D Rendering
Here, is a recent project that I wanted to share. The design really pushes modern architecture and was really fun to illustrate.
Nashville, Tennessee Street Rendering
The deck view is stunning, overlooking downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
Nashville, Tennessee Overlooking City
Aeria Architectural Rendering
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V-Ray Material Presets Pro v3.1.1
The Siger Studio’s SIGERSHADERS V-Ray Material Presets Pro is a Plugin – powerful material collection for 3ds Max and V-Ray rendering engine + User Library material lab/manager. V-Ray Material Presets Pro v3.1.1 is now available for 3ds Max 2013 – 2015
Features:
- 1787 V-Ray material presets and templates
- (Legacy: 1192* | V-Ray 3.1+: 595**).
- Compatible with SolidRocks.
- You can create and manage your Material Library.
- All textures used are seamless.
- Friendly and simple interface.
- Useful for V-Ray newbies, average and power users.
- * Legacy materials – compatible with V-Ray v.2.xx or later
- ** V-Ray3
. 1+ materials – compatible with V-Ray v.3.10 or later.
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Rustic House Rendering
Here, is my latest work done for my new friends over at Lands End Development in, Crosslake, MN. What a nice bunch of people with some serious design skills.
Rustic House Rendering
Like most projects, there were some challenges. The challenge here was the house will be built new, but designed to look like it's been there for generations. I custom created the textures for this project, to be aged and weathered. The environment was built to look natural, yet lived in.
This was a great project and the Lands End Development people were great to work with.
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Introducing Stingray
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Five GPUs and over 20 TFLOPS
Boxx’s new workstation packs five GPUs and over 20 TFLOPS of compute horsepower
The liquid-cooled chassis is designed to support Intel’s Xeon E5 v3 processors with up to 18 cores and 36 threads per chip, but front-and-center billing goes to the GPUs. The Apexx 5 can pack up to five high-end graphics cards, four for workstation rendering and a single dedicated viewport GPU.
For those of you keeping track at home, that works out to over 20 TFLOPS of single-precision floating point and nearly ten TFLOPs of double-precision horsepower. That’s more firepower than the number one supercomputer in the world from the year 2000 and would’ve still captured a place on the TOP500 within the last decade, particularly once you toss in another 2.6TFLOPS from the Xeon CPUs (assuming two E5-2699v3.)
All four cards run in full PCIe 3.0 x16 slots with a fifth PCIe 3.0 x8 slot for the dedicated viewport card. Users also have the option of equipping other co-processors, including a Synch card for frame locking, PCI-Express SSDs, or a 10Gbit ethernet card.
The chassis can support up to eight mechanical hard drives or 16 2.5-inch SSDs. Obviously the market for 4-5 GPUs in a single system is going to be relatively rare — even at the high-end, there aren’t many engineers or designers who need that much GPU horsepower in a single system. Boxx’s product marketing manager, Chris Morley, acknowledges that the product is aimed at a very specific type of customer, but notes that the Apexx 5 is offering a level of performance you literally can’t buy elsewhere, since even the highest-end systems from Dell and HP tend to top out below this point.
The company has been deliberately courting disgruntled Mac users since the Mac Pro debuted last year, and its “Mac Pro No” video is funny enough to be worth a watch. It’s also telling — where Apple built a dual-GPU workstation that emphasized the GPU at the expense of CPU performance and focused the system almost entirely on external connectivity, the Boxx Apexx 5 kicks GPU options up to 11 without skimping on dual CPU horsepower or the internal connectivity that most people expect in a modern high-end workstation.
http://mobile.extremetech.com/latest/222730-boxxs-new-workstation-packs-five-gpus-and-over-20-tflops-of-compute-horsepower
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Custom Kitchen Rendering
Interiors are always fun; challenging, yet fun. I received a request for my services, from a kitchen designer out of Chicago, who needed to do something to keep his client engaged. The kitchen designer had the vision, but his clients could not feel it with the 2D CAD plans that he was providing.
It's always exciting for me to get my client's reaction when they see their vision in full color. Maybe, that's part of what fuels my passion for what I do.
Custom Kitchen Rendering
“Holy cow that’s amazing!!”
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Arts and Craft Architectural Rendering
The architect design the cutest arts and craft house, but the problem was, the rendering they provided didn't suit the needs of the real estate firm hired to sell it. So, they called upon my services. I am always excited to help and I get excited to work on structures I find visually appealing, like this art and craft house.
Here, the process was a little different than my usual client. This time, the real estate company contacted me directly. This was their first time hiring a service like mine, and I sensed a little fear, but I held their hand and all went well.
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Office Building Night Rendering
I absolutely love a client who asks for bold!
Here, is a one story and a two story office building being proposed in a very busy construction market. The designer typically provides illustrations to the developer and since the market is competitive, they wanted to up the ante. Hopefully, with the help of my architectural renderings, their office buildings will be noticed, at least that is the plan.
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Incredible Architecture 3D Artworks
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McKinley Town Home Rendering
I am seeing a trend. Over the past several months I have had many comments about the need for high quality architectural renderings. It seems, high quality renderings are what is setting companies (developer, architect, real estate) apart. Now, there are a lot of things that set a company apart, but nothing more visual than a high quality architectural rendering. People, for the most part, don't get the low quality renderings; it makes you look like an amateur. People are very visual and technical talking, or a stack of 2d drawings, just cause confusion. Slide a low quality rendering across the table, no matter how much time you have invested, is an excitement killer; you can almost feel the air being pulled out of the room.
Photo-realistic Architectural Rendering
Photo-realistic Architectural Rendering
Photo-realistic Architectural Rendering
Photo-realistic Architectural Rendering
Photo-realistic Architectural Rendering
Above, is one of those case studies. The Architect had a rendering, which was done in SketchUp, but it lacked realism. Now, SketchUp is a very capable software and I have seen some nice renderings come from it. But it is so much more than the software you chose. Technically, it was accurate, but it was missing composition to hold the image together. If you don't get it right, the brain will know something is wrong, and the image will become a fraud or fake and be rejected.
Color plays an important role in perspective renderings!
Once you understand the color part of your rendering, you’ll be able to create stunning architectural rendering with ease.
When you're rendering recedes three essential things become apparent.
- Background = Neutral (and bluish) and Foreground = Saturated
- Background = Less contrasted and Foreground is = Contrasted
- Background = Cooler and Foreground = Warmer
- This is how the eye naturally sees.
“Oh my gosh! It looks like a real photo! This looks great!!”
McKinley Town Home finally got to my desk, not by the architect or developer, but by the sales people, who have the job to sell! This sales department knew the importance of an awesome photo-realistic architectural rendering.
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