Tom, thanks. Yes, lighting would be crucial if I ever finish these. At the time, I didn't want to put too much time into them if the client wasn't going to pay for those views. So I presented them as "shells", no pretty stuff. But for portfolio sake, I'm going to revisit all of these drawings some day and finish/change them to the way I wanted them to be! LOL That's why I've come here to get advise and comments. Thank you all soooo much. I'm actually getting a hankering to work on these again.... in my spare time, ha-ha-ha.

Thank you for your coments folks, I appreciate it a lot kwistenbiebel , you can find these chairs here: http://www.ambientedirect.com/en/eur/design_aarnio_bubble_en.php http://www.eero-aarnio.com/10/Where_to_buy.htm The price is neat 3.000,00 British Pounds, not very cheap, but then again, not everybody has one at home either Cheers

happy new year! I like crazy solutions and this is one of them, excelent!

I didn't understand what you wanted to tell me with the hungarian link. I am going to post a photo in the theatre thread with the actual capital. It will be about 230 kb at the moment, I did something wrong with the actual columns (they are too big, in fact I repeated them 3 times, I didn't know anything about components at that time ), so I can reach the 500 kb (but I don't think that happens).

Bruce, thanks for your thoughts! Cheers, Franziska

That looks like the new SketchUcation HQ. Nice house, dark images but nice house! That North Arrow looks familiar too. Happy New Year dude.

Wonderful images. I really like the night image. Is it possible that the train is simply to small. If I look at the size of the floor tiles and compare it size of the train it kind of becomes obvious.

Hehe... Cool images! (That lake or something is creeping up onto the hillside though )

LOL, too funny!

@solo said: Yup Podium, If you would like i could post a screen shot of the setup and the .skp of the basic studio. Thanks for the offer, Pete, that would be excellent... You can mail it to frederik [at] kerkythea.net Like I've told you before... You have GREAT artistic skills... So... You're up for becomming beta-tester of SU..?? I will cross my fingers for you and wish you best of luck..!!

GREAT!!!! FANTASTIC, U R AN ARTIST.

I used the same component for the exact same thing recently on a job

Now I can see them (I don't know what the problem was). I do really like those presentations especially.

How is this for a strange tree: http://www.worldisround.com/articles/198895/photo26.html Or this: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/3/4474723_41506a674c.jpg Or what about this: http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b257/swkaioshin/100_0453.jpg

Ross - better watch out because the last couple of months melamine has been showing up in the food supply. Being a pet owner, you likely took notice of the huge story about a month ago where tonnes of pet food had been recalled, and was killing off dogs (mostly, I understand) and cats. The reason was that the wheat gluten that was supplied from China had melamine in it. This is a little worrysome, as wheat gluten is in many products, and I wonder how long a form of your cups will end up in my food? <I don't remember hearing that your dog(s?) had any health problems, and I would almost guess that you buy organic for them anyways?> cheers (oh and thanks for the response. For some reason, I wasn't thinking that you meant the inside of the glass closest - but yeah, that's caustics as I understand 'em. About the ground, I thought it actually looked quite good, the splotches on the right side looked like K artifacts to me though - but perhaps X was the "culprit" I had a quick question as to what a High Dynamic Range Probe is? I don't really understand how VUE (my renderer of choice) handles HDRI's - I just know it works, but I would generally insert an image for VUE to get the sense of lighting direction and brightness from - I wonder what a "probe" is? P: Shaun Tennant

I'm with you, Will, I too like the soft warmth of this image. You might try pulling just a little form out of the people with your light/dark brush...seems to pacify my "look like billboards" nemesis. (Getting picky, 'cause this image deserves the best, I think the kids group would set down in space better if moved forward off the white patch of carpet.) Really nice, thanks for sharing. Best, Tom.

your renderings have nice light quality. no hot spots...which is great! Couldnt gather much about architecture though. the mountain resort is a good attempt! Seems the tress and vegetaion was post processed I hope TBD incorporates support for PNGs in the next upgrade. what is the texture on the left roof?

Hahaha...nice. Looks like the tree from the Leprechaun movie.

Nice. Makes me want to listen to Pink Floyd. http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/pigs-on-the-wing-1-animals.html