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Maris Peak House Rendering
The Maris Peak house renderings is one of my resent favorites. I do enjoy doing these rustic home over the modern ones and I think it might show a little.
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Montrose Villas Duplex Renderings
I welcome 2019 with my first delivered set of architectural renderings.
The Montrose Villa Duplex Renderings started mid-last year and although I do create a schedule, I try to remain flexible for my clients. This project in particular, the client wasn’t in the greatest of hurry, so it took awhile to get some information and feedback.
This is the first overcast after the rain renderings I did for this client, and he liked the look. With this client I do sets, which consists of a perspective and elevation of each house and then an overall streetscape.
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Shannon Homes Design Rendering
Happy New Year! This is my first post of 2019 and my last project of 2018.
I have seen a trend of home designer and builders wanting to up their game with their house plans. No longer can a low-budget architectural rendering cut it in today’s market. Buyers are smart and if you cut corners with marketing they wonder were you are cutting corners other places.
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Custom Kitchen Renderings
Over the past year I have done a dozen or so Custom Kitchen Renderings. If a projects budget is tight, usually, other than an exterior rendering, my clients chose to do just one interior rendering, which is usually a kitchen. Custom Kitchen Renderings are time consuming, since they are usually very custom. From cabinet styles, to hardware, to plumbing fixtures and lighting fixtures, everything is hand picked and they need to be custom modeled.
This Custom Kitchen Rendering started like most, from a set of 2-D CAD plans and CAD elevations. The colors and materials were chosen by the interior designer, along with all the furniture. I built the furniture and fixtures from the manufacturers specification sheets.
Custom Kitchen Rendering
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Sunset Modern House Rendering
Modern house renderings, once rare, have now become pretty common in my portfolio. This rendering, the Sunset House Rendering, has some bold color an material choices that personally, I really like.
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Common Wealth Apartment Rendering
Here are some renderings of the Common Wealth Apartments that I was asked to illustrate by the projects architect.
Kudos to my render engine, which is V-Ray NEXT. V-Ray NEXT handled the interior rendering and exterior rendering like a champ and in lighting speed. For the exterior rendering I had some subtle depth of field, motion blur, and all at 5K. The interior rendering was a 4K render and also had some subtle depth of field.
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College Bar Rendering
Each project has its own life. This one started as a rush, however, all the information came to me really slow. If I remember correctly, I didn’t get needed details for a few weeks. Colors and materials took equally as long. Once I did get the information I needed, I was knee deep in other projects, so the college bar rendering had to be rescheduled.
Anyway, I enjoyed it. All the furniture was custom modeled and I do like how it turned out.
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The Barr House Rendering
The objective was, natural materials in a woodsy environment. The Barr residence rendering is for a local architect, who has a client who couldn’t visualize the selected colors and materials for their dream house. I feel their fear and this is exactly why I got into the business of architectural renderings.
Thanks to the following sites, I was able to obtain high-resolution texture that I color matched in Photoshop.
Both sites have free accounts, however, I am a monthly subscriber to both, which gets me higher resolution textures.
Earlier in my career I spent a lot of time perusing the internet for free textures and 3D models. Not until I starting work professionally and my workload was heavy did I realize that my time is of value and better spent other places, so I started purchasing the best money can buy and I subscribed to the best site available. This, is one of the steps I take to make my work better than most; high quality assets.
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Snow Scene Rendering
I have done 100’s of Summer renderings, a few Fall Renderings, but this my first Winter renderings. I have always wanted to do a winter rendering, however, I have never had a client request one, until now. The majority of the Winter scenes you see out there are personal projects and like Cobblers kids have the worst shoes, I don’t have time for personal projects, so my Winter scene need had to wait until it was a commissioned project.
I hope you like it and if you have any comments, please comment below.
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Fairmount House Rendering
The Fairmount house rendering was a fun project. I like the design, so it was a pleasure to work on. Often, I am asked to illustrate a structure that I am just not into, so it helps when I can get excited about the project and I look forward to the outcome, just as much as the owner.
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Sky Ranch Renderings
I shared the Sky Ranch architectural renderings awhile back, however, they have went through some changes. The project had a slow start and bounced around people awhile. Originally the developer hired a marketing person, who left mid-way through the project, so I started working with someone internally. After a few revisions the project was handed over to another marketing company, so things changed again. Anyway, here are the finals. I do love the architecture of these.
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Upstate New York Mansion Rendering
This is, I believe, the 5th house I illustrated for this upstate New York developer. I have a few evening shots to do, which will happen after these are approved. I’ll post those when I am done, so please bookmark me so you can check back next week.
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Millennium Center Rendering
Often I am asked to build existing buildings that surround a proposed structure. However, this is the first project that is an existing building. Unfortunately, I didn’t have drawing files, or anything other site photos and Google Maps, for that matter.
This architectural rendering started like most, which is modeling the mass and sending for client comments. My client and I worked back and forth until the building looked correct. Once I got the gray-scale mass model approved then came adding color, materials, and the environment.
From no construction drawings, or any drawings of any kind, to these images in several weeks was weeks of long days, and nights, but it got done on time and for budget; everyone was pleased!
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Latham House Rendering
Often, I get emails, calls, or web chats about my pricing. The question usually looks like this, "what do you charge for an exterior rendering?" or "what do you charge for a kitchen rendering?" My reply is always the same, which is, "Each project is unique and I quote based on the size and complexity of your project, so I do not give generic pricing". A lot of the time I don't get a reply and sometimes people get a little hostile. Since the internet makes the world small, I believe many of these inquiries are from people wanting to break into the industry and they want to know what I charge. If you see the standard pricing menu I would stop and think, will I get what I pay for and the answer will be, yes!
The Latham House rendering is a manufactured home with less than a 1000 sq floor plan. The house sits between a garage and a shed. I am sharing this because, there is no average project. From 1000 SF houses to 40,0000 SF houses, I do them all. Also, some of my smaller houses have more detail than some of my larger houses, so size isn't necessarily an indicator of cost.
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63 Ponds Architectural Renderings
Here is a beautiful home in upper state New York. It is always a pleasure to work with this client, although sometime interesting. I usually get a vague text, the architect steps in and out of the process, and the owner usually calls in a panic, needing something within an hour when I haven't heard from him in weeks. Hey, it keeps me on my toes.
Follow Up:
No joke, this project has been closed for about a month, archived and off my desk. I sent the client a link to the deliverable and left the files in the cloud until yesterday. After I wrote the original post, which was yesterday, I got a panic email from my client saying that he needs the images, he is in a meeting, and the link I sent doesn't work (he never accessed his files a month ago when I sent the link).
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Modern Masterpiece Renderings
Sometimes I drool over the European modern house renderings I see on sites like www.behance.net. Well, I got my chance and hopfully I did it justice.
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Main Street Minnesota Rendering
Over the past couple of decades, I have created architectural renderings for projects around the globe, on every continent and virtually every US state, however, only a handful for the state I currently reside in. Main Street Minnesota rendering was for a Twin City Minnesota Architect.
Often, I get emails or phone calls about rush projects and usually, I'll pass. There is usually a reason a project is rushed and it is due to poor planning, which usually extends to the architectural rendering. The Main Street Minnesota rendering was a rush project, I asked my pertinent questions, and I chose to take the project. All went well and the project was delivered on time.
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Wedding Venue Rendering
Another fun one that I wanted to share. My objective was to take a pretty basic building and make it romantic. From the white flowered plants, to the flowery ground cover, I thing I accomplished my objective. Do you agree?
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Kiddie Academy
This was a great project that I think turned out well. I am always impressed when the business owners reach out to me. From architects and designers to business owners and homeowners.
What is happening is, like most businesses, architects and designers find a way to create revenue. With most design software today, the architectural rendering is a by-product of the design drawings. So, it becomes something that the architects and designers can charge for, however, the quality, for the most part, isn't' really good. When the owner requests an architectural rendering, so they can do their marketing after the design is done, they find that the renderings will not suffice and that's where I come in.
Having said that, I see another change happening. The architects and designers are starting to approach me again because they are finding out that they can't compete with their renderings if they do them in-house. Like anything, it takes a lot to get really good at something and to get a good rendering you need someone, like me, who specializes in it.
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