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Brucker Cottage Autumn Rendering
There are a lot of things I try with my clients, like dramatic views, compelling compositions, and playful light and shadows. Often, my clients don’t know what makes the right image, so they trust me, and others like to make all the calls, and these rarely turn out good. This one, Brucker Cottage Autumn Rendering, my client suggested an Autumn scene with a very unkempt lawn; I jumped all over it! I used some depth of field and atmospheric effects to make things look real, which was essential to my client.
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Westchester House
“The meeting Monday night went smoothly and we got swift approval…your rendering was the selling point!”
I absolutely love the Westchester house. I love the design, how the rendering turned out and working with the architect. So far, this will be my months favorite and might just find its way in this months newsletter.
The house will be set into a nice neighborhood with older homes. As the architect says, “it is do or die”, so they are using the rendering to get the neighbors approval. It really is a beautiful home, and I think after seeing the rendering, they will fall in love with it and welcome it into their neighborhood.
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Vera Summer Farm House
What a great looking Summer farmhouse and great looking farmhouse renderings. Vera is the second of two in a series. The first farmhouse rendering got a lot of attention, and I had several people reach out to me about buying the plans. Now, I don’t sell plans, but I do point people to whom can help them. Hopefully, this farmhouse rendering creates at least an equal amount of buzz.
“Bob is a very talented artist, excellent communicator, and a pleasure to work with!”
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coNEXT House Rendering
I loved the projects name and design. Now that it is done I love the rendering, albeit I am a little bias.
Several keys to photorealism are the following:
Depth of field
Motion blur
Chromatic Aberration
For the coNEXT house rendering, I used all the above, however very subtle, which is also a key to photorealism.
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The Ponderosa Interior Rendering
One of my great pleasures is turning 2D CAD drawings into beautiful 3D renderings so my client’s client can see the design. I mean, come on, how is anybody going to understand the design intent without seeing it in a beautiful 3D rendering?
Ponderosa Interior Rendering
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Summer Farmhouse Rendering
The Summer Farmhouse rendering will be published in the Southern Living magazine, which is awesome! This is a great looking house, a fun project to work on and my clients reaction made my day!
“You do amazing work! I’m blown away every time I see a new one! You knocked it out of the park!”
Summer Farmhouse Rendering - Option A
Summer Farmhouse Rendering - Option B
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Nashville Twilight Rendering
I took a trip down to Nashville, TN last month and it was a blast. It was my daughter's dream, so we took a road trip. We arrived on Sunday and Broadway was pack; I can't imagine a Friday or Saturday night crowd.
My client provided me the drone shot of downtown Nashville, TN, which I used in the exterior deck rendering. The view is awesome! If this rendering doesn't sell units, nothing will.
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Senior Housing Interior Renderings
When I was asked to create interior renderings for an senior housing facility, having aging parents myself, I jumped at the opportunity. All the furniture was custom modeled from the interior designer's specifications as well as all the other finishes (carpet, floors, wall art…). I was asked to add people, so space looked lively and exciting, which I did. People are always challenging to pull off unless you photograph people in the right lighting conditions and position for the renderings, which usually is cost prohibitive for most interior rendering budgets. These people are stock photos, and color corrected to seamlessly integrate into the interior renderings.
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Penthouse Rendering
My client, who is an interior designer, had a client who couldn’t visualize their penthouse remodel design. Walls were removed, ceiling was changed and mirrors were hung. After a few iterations, my client’s client fell in love with their penthouse remodel, all before a hammer was swung.
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Moose Hollow Renderings
I render a lot of different architectural styles, however, I think these rustic houses might be my niche. I am from Chicago, but moved up North to Northern MN a decade ago, so that might have something to do with it.
I am not a great fan of over-processed images, but I did a little HDRI color-grading to bring out the roughness of the material.
“Just wanted to send you a short note telling you that the renderings are absolutely beautiful. Also thanks for the the rear facing rendering as we believed it was not included in the price. Finding you was after doing a few hours of researching company’s all over the country. I can assure you that not only will work find its way to you from our showcase marketing, which serves to benefit the National Ability Center, but Ive already given your name out to one of the largest building company’s here in Utah. Again, thank you for a job well done.
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Inspiration
I often get emails asking for advice, favors, and freebies, but it isn’t often I get an email like this. It made my week, thank you!
Bobby,
I want to say thank you for the inspiration. I have referenced your renders for a long time in trying to improve my skill. Also your contributions to the Arch Viz community through your blog and various forums are a great resource. I appreciate you taking the time to post on the forums offering advice and providing solid solutions to the questions people have. I started following your work when I was employed at an architectural firm in Calgary, Alberta. This was around when my daughter was born and I was inspired by your business model to take the plunge to go freelance. Since then I have been working from home and it's the best thing I have done for my family.
Anyway, I'm not selling or asking anything I just wanted to pass on my appreciation of your work.
All the best,
312 West Wind Road Rendering
Rush jobs are uncommon, but do happen. When they do happen, it does create a scheduling nightmare. My objective is to meet my clients rush need without jeopardizing normally scheduled projects. My first questions is why is there a rush?
“Lack of Planning on Your Part Does Not Constitute an Emergency on My Part”
A rush job will usually cost you more and not only will it cost you more, everything is rushed and the quality of your rendering might be compromised. These images turned out great, and there was no compromise in quality; my rush client got me all the needed information in a timely matter.
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12 Cornell Road House Rendering
Great testimony on the benefits of an architectural rendering. The house was designed, went through all the review processes, and signed off by the owner. All the CAD files we sent to me and I virtually built the house. After sending my client a gray-scale proof, they noticed that the detail at the entrance formed a perfect Christian cross. Now, my client’s name is Christian, but I don’t know is religious affiliation, but I can assure you, he didn’t know he would have a cross at his front door. Personally, I loved it. The design was changed and now it doesn’t look like a Christian Church. Everyone involved scratched their heads wondering why they didn’t notice from the CAD drawings. Once they saw the architectural rendering it was plain as day, even on the CAD drawings that they have been looking at for months.
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725 Brookside House Rendering
I absolutely love this house!
I work for people across the globe and I see a lot of architecture and I know a lot of architects world-wide. Most architects outside of the states mock me for the american houses I illustrate. You know, the box with the garage door taking up most of the front facade. Well, this American house breaks that mold and I love it; I think they will love it too.
“This looks freaking amazing!... I am serious, thanks so much for creating these, should really help market and get them SOLD SOLD SOLD!! ”
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Margolius Residence
Great piece of property with a nicely designed home. There are three proposed structures. A main house with an outdoor pool, a garage, and a crafts building. The site is hilly and heavily wooded, which added a level of complexity to the project.
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3rd and Taylor Nashville, TN Rendering
Nashville, TN, a place my daughter wants to visit and a place I have done many architectural renderings for. Another thing about Nashville, TN, I have yet to work on an architectural rendering project that had a flat site; very hilly. Well, my daughter will get her wish because we are making a trip down to TN this weekend. I am going to Memphis and my wife and daughter will continue West to Nashville, TN.
3rd and Taylor Nashville, TN Rendering
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Manor Streetscape Rendering
Streetscape renderings are pretty time consuming and not easy to pull off, but hopefully I pulled it off on the Manor Streetscape Renderings. With a ton of detail, subtle depth of field and creative color grading, my objective was to make it a real an natural looking suburban street.
This projects has six more images and I’ll those later, so please come back in a week. Each house gets a one point perspective and then I have an overall view to create.
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Lahaina Beach Club Rendering
Often, I get real estate brokers or agent wanting to pretty up their properties for marketing. I'll hear, “can you put lipstick on a pig?”. This one, the Lahaina Beach Club property, is a beautiful building on the ocean, however, it needed a major make over. I didn’t have CAD files to work with, actually, the architect wouldn’t release them to the owner. It turned out that the architect wanted to provide the architectural renderings, but the real estate broker wanted something better than the architect could provide.
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Summer Set House Rendering
I really enjoy these single house rendering projects. Some projects can last weeks, months, or sometimes years, so it is relaxing to spend just a couple days on a project.
I average one house a week and each one takes me about two days, start to finish. It’s nice to fit these smaller projects in between larger ones, which tend to take a while to receive feedback.
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Hancock Apartment Interior Renderings
These came to me as a previous client referral, which is always a great complement. They already had interior renderings created, by someone else, but they were not happy with them and they didn’t think they could use them for their marketing campaign.
At first, I received partial information, so the project started off strange. The interior images were dark and gloomy, however, I wanted to show the client an unbiased look into their interior spaces, so I didn’t do any tricks to brighten things up. After receiving more information we realized that the windows I had built, where 1/2 as small and 1/2 as many. Once I opened up some more exterior wall with openings, the spaces became bright an cheery.
Truth be known, the spaces are a little small, however, with some photography tricks, light and bright colors, and limited furniture, the spaces look spacious.
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