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Duck Pond Renderings
The Duck Pond house is a return with some updated features. The owner is trying to set his property apart from the other mansions in the area. The goal is for these architectural renderings to allow him to market his property before the property is completed.
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412 webster NOLA Rendering
Often I have clients who have to list a property. However, that property isn’t ready for photography. The 412 webster NOLA rendering is one of these situations. It might be months before the parcel will be prepared, so what better way to get a jump on marketing than a high-quality architectural rendering?
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Vassallo House Rendering
Most of the time, about 90% of the time, I start from 2D CAD files. Most people still work on AutoCAD and draw lines. When I get these CAD drawings, I almost guarantee that I can’t build the 3D model from the 2D CAD files. There are often many things I have to guess at or make work. On the Vassallo House Rendering, there is a truss detail that didn’t work and is still there, but obscured by a tree, which was intentional. This house is fantastic and works for me. I get all kinds of homes, from all sorts of designers, and some I like more than others. The Vassallo House Rendering has to be one of my favorites.
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Attach by Layer
What a time-saver, Attach by Layer. I model on layers, and I want everything on that layer to be one object, which helps viewport performance. I use SINI Software’s suite of scripts to help me get through my day. It is all about quality and speed. I am not one to sacrifice quality for speed, but I do want to do my job as fast as I can, and SINI Software helps me do that. The SINI Software subscription is expensive (at least if you ask around), but the time I save with these little tasks makes it a great value.
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Sketches to Photorealistic Renderings
Often, I am asked if I can create a photorealistic rendering from a sketch. The answer is, yes I can. All my projects get two grayscale proof and two-color proofs, so starting from sketches does have it’s obstacles. What I try to avoid is someone trying to circumvent the design process to save a buck, which usually ends up costing people more. For smaller interiors, like this project, starting from sketches were perfectly fine. After 2-sets of color revisions, I was able to capture what my client wanted.
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NPR Renderings
The more computer power we get, the more we toss at it. The trend over the decade has been photorealistic rendering; however, that is very subjective. I have recently seen some “photorealistic” renderings that resembled what I was doing in the early ’90s. Having said that, not everything needs to be photorealistic. I have several clients that prefer the softer look of digital watercolor. I started out in watercolor, so these are not even close. I think we should coin a new term. Digital watercolor might work, and here are some of those I just completed this week.
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Coleman Residence
I started, 25 years go, illustrating structures that don’t exist. I worked for a high-rise luxury residential design/build firm. To get bank financing, you needed to sell 80% of the units, and how do you sell a million-dollar studio, architectural renderings.
The Coleman Residence was a different story. The house is built, and there is a scheduled open house. The developer wanted a rendering and 2D color floor plan to have printed and set on an easel for people walking into the home.
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Front Nine Lane Renderings
Great project for a great client. Architectural renderings are a great way to get people interested in your project. Either potential investors or future clientele, a rendering can tell the story.
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Apartment Interior Renderings
How can you sell a view? Show them! These are interior renderings using site photos, used out the windows.
Generally, I overexpose the outside, just like real photography, however, the view was necessary on these, so they are correctly exposed, like the interior. Do you like it? Photorealistic purists might have issues :).
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Garden Room Common Area Rendering
Often, I get interior designers who need to convey their design ideas to their clients. The Garden Room Common Area Rendering is one of these cases. All the pieces you see were modeled and colored according to the interior designer's specifications. These are some of the more time-consuming projects since I am matching real-world elements. I get photos, and I model the pieces to work in my 3D environment.
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Bowling Alley Rendering
I love creating something from nothing. I mean, except for someone's concept. I start with a blank screen, and I virtually build the environment. In this case, I received sketches and inspirational photos to create these bowling alley renderings.
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Up North Rendering
Summer is coming to an end, which means families are flooding in to get those last weekends at the resorts. I do work for people worldwide, but I don’t often do work for the locals. This is a local resort looking to attract some of those families to a proposed new cabin.
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Wimbledon Corner
Again, I love brick! Improve the design, which is a benefit added. Often, when looking at the rendering, the design is redefined and dialed into. Like I always say, it is cheaper to move something on the computer than in the field.
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Brick Architectural Renderings
I love brick. I am not sure if it is because I am from Chicago, and in Chicago, everything is brick (O'Leary), or what? Brick construction is fantastic and gives me a good feeling—brick construction; made to withstand, even a stubborn cow.
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You should get paid in full when you deliver your work!
Some good advice on getting paid before you deliver your final deliverables. Thank you, Fabio, for sharing your thoughts.
Shawn Fisher Design House Rendering
I have all kinds of clients. Some dictate every move I make, calling all the shots and others, like Shawn Fisher, tells me to do my magic. Guess which projects usually turn out best? Okay, there is another type that I work in collaboration with, which also turns out pretty good, too.
This is a beautiful house and it was a joy to illustrate. Shawn was an awesome client and I hope we work together again, soon.
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Manchester Modern Farmhouse Rendering
It was the Summer of 1980, and my parents commissioned an architect to design them their house. After going through the process and falling in love with the 2D plans, my father started construction. I remember my father took a few months off of work, and I helped after school and weekends. Some of the design elements, after actually building them were, not so good. I mean in 2D they looked good, but after actually seeing them in reality, not so much.
My favorite past time growing up was drawing. I always drew; you could always find me with some kind of drawing utensil in my hand. Like many, if not most, my drawing stopped once I got a little older. Even when I was in college for design and architecture, I didn't draw, we had computer-aided design (CAD). After college, I went to work in construction, and I saw homeowners struggle to understand the 2D drawings that they were given, and it sparked something in me. I remembered back to when my parent was reviewing their 2D plans.
In the early 90's I took up drawing again, and this time it was architecture. I started taking the architect's 2D drawings and transferring them into 3D architectural sketches, or I guess you could call them renderings. However, at this early stage, they were just pencil drawings. I remember the architects didn't like it because it usually caused the homeowners to make late design changes, and it held things up on the construction site. My premise was, and still is, it is cheaper to change something on paper than the construction site.
After a few years, my construction site pencil sketches turned into art. I started playing with different media, added color, and I took a lot of liberties. Light and shadow took precedence over actual site conditions and real-world locations. Okay, why my life story? When I received the Manchester Modern Farmhouse 2D drawings, I didn't see a whole lot. It looked like a small house, and I wasn't' seeing farmhouse. Not until I built the 3D model and added textures and materials did I start to appreciate the house. My mind flashed back to the early days of why I actually started drawing architecture. Had these 2D drawings been viewed by someone, I couldn't imagine much emotion would be evoked. However, ad perspective, light, and shadow, and it become something else, something someone could fall in love with.
Manchester Modern Farmhouse Rendering
25+ years later, I am still drawing and making a living doing so. I rarely pick up a pencil or paper anymore, and now I use a monitor and mouse. To tell you the truth, it takes more than a monitor and mouse, it takes a lot of high-end hardware to compute the information I give it. Not only does it take high-end software-hardware, but it also takes a couple decades of knowledge and wisdom using art theory. Face it, one thing software, hardware can't do is be creative, which has become my niche!
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Lagoon A Beach Rendering
About 20 years ago, I met my wife online. I don’t think I was looking for someone, definitely not on the internet, and it was way before meeting people online was cool. Anyway, I met my wife online, sight unseen, but we hit it off. I lived in Chicago, and she lived in upper Minnesota. I had no experience with people from Minnesota, but my mind had conjured up some strange caveman/cavewomen stuff. We talked on the phone for a while, usually, while she was at work, and she would open/close a door that sounded like it was a screen door from the 1900s. My future wife started asking me to come to visit her, but I had no interest in traveling across the country (okay, two states over) to see cavewomen. After all, I like my women with teeth, which was literally my thought at the time. I dodged the ‘come visit’ bullet as long as I could, she emailed me her photo, and I was on the next train to the north woods.
What does my story have to do with the Lagoon A Beach Rendering, you ask? Well, I drove up to upper Minnesota, expecting to see log cabins everywhere, lots of old pickups, and gruff people. What I have come to learn is, every place pretty much looks the same. No log cabins, people seemed friendly and were well groomed (for the most part), and if I hadn’t know where I was, I would have to guess the suburbs of Chicago. I was kind of disappointed to tell you the truth. I wanted meat over a fire, and I got Dairy Queen! One thing I did see once in a while was old white houses with green trim. These houses look like old cabins on the lakes. There isn’t a lot left, but they are around, and I always liked them. They were more prevalent 20 years ago, so the Lagoon A Beach Rendering brought me back to when I first started courting my wife.
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Product Furniture Rendering
I try to stay pretty laser-focused on my architectural renderings, however, sometimes I get product renderings. I have done light fixtures, computer desks, couches, kids playsets, and these patio furniture. This client had a new line coming out, but due to the weather, they didn’t want to wait until Spring to get these photographed. Well, you don’t have to wait when you can virtually create your environment and place your virtual product in the scene.
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Front Drive Slim Renderings
I am not sure what's up with the naming convention, but the project's name is Front Drive Slim. I am sure it means more to my client than I know; each house does have a unique name. These houses are done for a blue-chip client of mine. A blue-chip client is a client who sends me enough work to get priority. I have to say, almost all my leads have a promise of a ton of work for a low price on the first project. I don't discount on the promise of work, but I might discount on bulk projects, usually at least quantities of 10, like this project for this client. Actually, I also get leads from people who want me to do the first project for free, and if they like it, they'll send me all their work. I am too smart to fall for this. If you are new to this business, the business of architectural illustrations and renderings, don't fall for these two popular sales tricks. Anyway, here are the houses for your viewing pleasure. They have a ton of detail, and I hope you appreciate the time and effort that goes into these.
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