I'm totally turned on right now...

Thank you gentlemen. If only I could find the time to get into the shop to build some of this stuff.

Ah, glad to hear (it was quite a time ago when I did that so I wasn't sure I remembered well )

Thanks. The final (if we get that far) will have a background I am sure.

Good, I look forward to seeing more too!

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!!! --SECOND REVISION TO THIS POST-- 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. [attachment=0:h5dm1jdd]<!-- ia0 -->4805.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:h5dm1jdd] 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. [image: 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.