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Home2 - Joplin Mo Rendering
During the early 90's I worked as an illustrator for a hotel/motel design/build architectural firm. This, Home2 rendering, is for Joplin, Mo where I traveled for my early 90's position. It was a pleasure to render this building and it brough back some good memories.
Home2 Architectural Rendering
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Kellogg Retreat Rendering
The stars were aligned for this architectural rendering. Although I added a lot of information, rendering times were great; at 4K these stills rendered out in 1/2 per still.
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3DS MAX and Composition
Here, I am sharing a little type to set up the rules of third in 3D MAX, natively. Also, I am sharing two tools that have become indispensable in my 3DS MAX composition workflow. Any questions, feel free to comment on this post.
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The Capri Interior Renderings
Over the past years, I have created 100's of exterior architectural renderings and this year alone, I am closing in on that number with my interior architectural renderings. Like my exterior renderings, interior renderings take a special skill and attention to detail. Technically, interiors are a pain to render, especially since most American homes have small window openings. Getting all the natural light into the small opening is a computer nightmare. I compensate with artificial light, but the natural light looks so much nicer and with the right HDRI, the colors are nice a subtle.
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Goodbye Uncanny Valley
Goodbye Uncanny Valley
It’s 2017 and computer graphics have conquered the Uncanny Valley, that strange place where things are almost real... but not quite. After decades of innovation, we’re at the point where we can conjure just about anything with software. The battle for photoreal CGI has been won, so the question is... what happens now?
CREDITS:
Written and animated by Alan Warburton with the support of Tom Pounder and Wieden + Kennedy.
Music by Cool 3D World (cool3dworld.com/)
Special thanks to: Leanne Redfern, Nico Engelbrecht, Iain Tait, Indiana Matine, Katrina Sluis, David Surman, Jacob Gaboury and Daniel Rourke.
Animated backgrounds generously provided by:
• Quixel (quixel.se/)
• Katarina Markovic (youtube.com/channel/UCcr4QTtAK9N96pf_Z_zVqWg)
• Roman Senko (vimeo.com/rendan)
Featuring work by:
• Al and Al (alandal.co.uk/)
• Albert Omoss (omoss.io/)
• Alex McLeod (alxclub.com/)
• Barry Doupe (barrydoupe.ca/)
• Claudia Hart (claudiahart.com/)
• Cool 3D World (cool3dworld.com/)
• Dave Fothergill (vimeo.com/davefothergillvfx)
• Dave Stewart (vimeo.com/davegrafix)
• Drages Animation (youtube.com/user/drakhean)
• El Popo Sangre (vimeo.com/elpoposangre)
• Eva Papamargariti (evapapamargariti.tumblr.com/)
• Filip Tarczewski (vimeo.com/ftarczewski)
• Geoffrey Lillemon (geoffreylillemon.com/website/)
• Jacolby Satterwhite (jacolby.com/home.html)
• Jesse Kanda (jessekanda.com/)
• John Butler (vimeo.com/user3946359)
• Jonathan Monaghan (jonmonaghan.com/)
• Jun Seo Hahm (vimeo.com/junseohahm)
• Kathleen Daniel (duh-real.com/)
• Katie Torn (katietorn.com/index.html)
• Kim Laughton (kimlaughton.tumblr.com/)
• Kouhei Nakama (kouheinakama.com/)
• LuYang (luyang.asia/)
• Mike Pelletier (mikepelletier.net/)
• Nic Hamilton (nichamilton.info/)
• Pussykrew (hybrid-universe-emulation.net/)
• Rick Silva (ricksilva.net/)
• Sanatorios (instagram.com/sanatorios/)
Ludlow Row Nashville Rendering
Nashville is booming and I am happy to be apart of it. Over the past several years I have completed a dozen architectural renderings for builders, architects, and developers in Nashville Tenessee. It's a beautiful part of our great country, so I know why people are moving there.
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Home2 Architectural Rendering
Honestly, I never heard of this hotel chain, however, I loved the name. After doing my research, like I do for every project, I found that it is a Hilton property. I suppose Home2 is poplular other places, just not in my neck of the woods.
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Sanctuary Residential Renderings
Fall is in the air, at least up here in Northern Minnesota, so I was inspired when a Fall scene was requested. Here, is the Sanctuary Residential Renderings.
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20 Penniman Loft Renderings
The work I do spans the globe, which always amazes me from where I have come from. Starting my career in the early 90's, where my work came from within a 30-mile radius, to working for people in almost every state and every continent. This project, the 20 Penniman Loft renderings, is in Boston. I visit my projects site using Google maps and this project is really going to boost the neighborhood. The building is under construction, but is months away from being ready for occupancy, so they need renderings to start their marketing campaigns. I don't think they'll have a problem filling these units up, hopfully crediting my work.
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523 Brownstones
Here is a new project that I just wrapped up and wanted to share. The architect did a great job with making, what essentially is 12 brick boxes, these apartments look warm and inviting. Or, at least, that was my objective with these architectural renderings.
This projected started with a SketchUp model and that usually poses an obstacle for me. Although SketchUp is relatively easy to use and can be a great design tool, for high-quality architectural renderings, it falls short. Sometimes I chose to start over and build my model with the construction drawings, but in this case, they were not available, so I used the SketchUp model. With flipped normals, double geometry, and double-sided materials, it was a job to get it where I needed it. Once I got the model prepared for materials, I created dozens of individual bricks, from site photos the architect provided, and randomized those bricks across the building faces. I think the bricks turned out nice and so did the architect.
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Classic Rambler Renderings
To tell you the truth, I fought with this one. Color balance and composition are probably the hardest things to nail in these interior renderings. Building the model is time-consuming, but it isn't subjective. The non-subjective part of subtle hues and the rhythm of composition takes time and a good eye. Remember, they will love or hate your architectural renderings and they might not even know why.
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House Plan Renderings
About once a month I get a house plan company emailing me for a quote on doing their house plan renderings. The email usually goes like this, "I have someone committed to X dollars per house, but I like your work so much better; would you be willing to match their price?". Typically, the price they say they were quoted wouldn't get me out of bed in the morning, so the conversation doesn't usually go past a few email exchanges.
The number of hours I put into my work would make most wonder what my motivations could be. I love what I do and smaller houses are my favorite. I do a lot of larger projects, so when a smaller house comes along it is a breath of fresh air. Here, is a smaller house for a house plan company that I did settle on a price that we both were happy with. It made front cover, which makes me smile.
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What is a 3D LUT
A LUT is basically a table that says if the input is 1 make the output 7. If the input is 0 make the output 5 – or whatever, these numbers are arbitrary, it is just a conversion matrix – take this, make it that. This can happen to the image over all or per colour channel (RGB). For example in the red channel use LUT A to make 1 = 7 but in the blue channel use LUT B to make 1=15.
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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Kitchen Renderings
I have been doing a lot of interior renderings lately, specifically, kitchen renderings. For the most part, kitchen renderings are the most complex of interior spaces to render. These, however, are pretty simple one.
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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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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.
If you have any questions or comments, please post them below. If you would like the 3DS MAX file with my roof, please request it in the comments section and I'll email it over to you. Please, do not fill out my contact form, which will place into my contact management system (CMS). If you would like the file, please comment to this post. Thank you :).
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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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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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