Eric,
Very nice model.
I am experimenting with a technique in photoshop to make my renderings a bit more like Tina Anne Stiles at http://www.illustrationz.com

This house would look pretty awesome with her technique applied.

If Tina is reading this...
How do you get that hand crafted look on your buildings???
If trade secrets are infringed here, I apologize. But you do some awesome work!!!

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Ok, Piranesi right?

Thanks Peter and Tinanne. The nice comments and suggestions were most appreciated. Danty

nice gidon

mike d

its the small imperfections that make it real!!!
good one gidon!! 👍

@regh said:

@krisidious said:

are those apratments made out of shipping containers?

fantastic... great sketches too...

Don't want to get too far OT, but can't resist showing y'all a South Louisiana version of the Container School of Design.. Not a slick as the UK layout, but it did survive Hurricane Katrina.
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I wouldn't mind a house I could weld on. If you put some poles at the corners, and some rings over the poles - it could float up and down with the flood waters.

jonathan,

it is a genuine worry. i will keep that in mind. thanks.

daniel,

this is a possibility although the original idea was to have the two end volumes as boxes within the main space. i will not do anything for now since the clients have not seen this new alternative yet. there is always the possibility that they do not like this one either...

Very nice, could we get some eye levels?

killer batrike, Ivica,... kinda tiny render 😞

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQd0ELH7SNI cool link for pumpkin

Very cool- I like!

see..i wasnt lying 😉

im using both vray and podium and i could agree with that coen.

After 22 hours of render time I just killed it as such R times are just ridiculous 😉 .

Maybe I should have rendered this in Podium or Vray.

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/statue5.jpg

Yes, Insane machines=extremely quick render times.

Wait until my 20+ machine render farm is done!

Rob,

Thanks for the opportunity to play around with this model. The model itself is very well done as that makes it much easier to render properly. I am still messing around with this model in some other scenes and will post them here when I am done. Glad that I could be of help with the material setups. To anyone learning Vray will see that materials make the render. More time is spent setting up materials properly than with lighting setups to get great renders. Even the default render settings with Vray can produce amazing results.

Scott

@craigd said:

There's also a big "I" on the helicopter landing pad... 😉

- CraigD

craig,

it depends from where you come from. on the plan it is aligned to the most travelled route to this place.

but you are right, "Hs" have a way of looking like "Is" if you do not approach them head on...

and helicopter does not start with an "I" in portuguese: helicoptero is the word.

cheers.

Yeah, that Arroway site is just really cool (I first found their link in the KT forums). And though the texture versions available for free are a bit smaller in size they can still be used for creating beautiful renders.

Solo, 1984 is not even that much (from a default SU sphere we would get 1128 if I'm counting well (and if triangulated of course).

Tinnane,

I saw Your thread Yesterday. The reason I didnt reply
then it is because I couldn t explain it so much in words
but in a form of a similar presentations that I make.
Although Your presentation is a great start I have a
couple of suggestions and tips.
Most of your Animation is apart from one or two
sequences is actually a slide show. Slides,
graphics, transitions, and proper design presentations
can be dynamic and interesting even without or with
very small amounts of animated sequences.
By the way I have visited Your web site on several
occasions and I really like Your work and I think
it would benefit even more if You take this approach .

Here is a link to my thread.
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3022&hilit=

Thanks for the ideas. I will definitly try them.

Canoek, your version is really neat.

thanks guys, these new xml presets are just awesome. i particularly like the noisy setting. the calculation is exact. there is really a big improvement from 1.4 to 1.5.

I was refering to using white or grey clay vs brown. Although, this is personal preference there does seam to be some logic to white or grey being more harmonious with the blue sky.