Bobby Parker 6/6/15 Bobby Parker 6/6/15

Chapman House Rendering

The other day I received a call, from a real estate agent. The agent saw the work I did on the Nelson House Rendering, which was for another real estate agent at another firm, and also a good friend of hers. When she inquired about the 3D artist who illustrated the house, her friend said:

“He’s my secrete weapon, I can’t give you his information!”

— Client

During the conversation she noticed my watermark, left her visit, and with a quick web search found me on-line. Here is the Chapman house.

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Bobby Parker 5/24/15 Bobby Parker 5/24/15

The 31 Orange House Rendering

Great client and great design. Here, the real estate broker commissioned me to illustrate this property for advertisement.

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Bobby Parker 5/20/15 Bobby Parker 5/20/15

Osprey Estate - Eaton

I am proud to share some of my latest 3D photorealistic architectural renderings. A lot of long days and many sleepless nights, but oh so worth it. Several months ago I was asked to illustrate a new development, which is being built in Florida. Once I saw the plans I was excited to get started. Please, use the arrows to scroll through the rooms.

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 Angela 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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Bobby Parker 5/20/15 Bobby Parker 5/20/15

Osprey Estate - Angela

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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Bobby Parker 5/8/15 Bobby Parker 5/8/15

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 compositing packages can offer some very powerful options for tonemapping high dynamic range renders while still being accessible to all.

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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Bobby Parker 5/5/15 Bobby Parker 5/5/15

[Freebie] onOne Perfect Effects 9 Premium Edition

onOne Perfect Effects 9 is a powerful and professional photo-editing software with customisable, stackable filters and hundreds of built-in presets to create effects for your photos.

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.
The advanced masking tool is easy-to-use and determine the areas of your photo you want to keep and creates a mask automatically. It’s perfect for adding a look to part of your photo.
Paint inside the lines with precision using the new edge-detecting Perfect Brush.
Reduce noise either globally or selectively using the noise reduction tools.

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Bobby Parker 5/1/15 Bobby Parker 5/1/15

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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Bobby Parker 4/20/15 Bobby Parker 4/20/15

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!”

— Zisong Feng - Architect

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Bobby Parker 4/13/15 Bobby Parker 4/13/15

Nashville, Tennessee Modern Architecture

I'm loving these modern structures going up, in Nashville, Tennessee, by Grant Hammond, Owner/Broker.

“Worked on 2 projects and about to do a 3rd. So far we are impressed.”

— Grant Hammond, Owner/Broker

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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Bobby Parker 4/9/15 Bobby Parker 4/9/15

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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