Nice, it looks a bit like the car Columbo drove - to me.

HornOxx , thank you very much.

Rich , appreciate your input. I'll have you know I never buy irregular oranges 😆 . actually never occurred to me to ovate their shapes a little. as for stems oops they have no stems 😞 . I was shooting for a high glaze ceramic look on the bowl and canisters, but I have a noise map I got from the Twilight forum that I'll give a try on the canisters , sort of a side by side comparison. thanks much for the positivity and the critique. chuck.

@firstliight said:

This is a home I designed for a client that is being constructed, my first to be constructed.

Thank you, Yes there will be construction photos, the steel for the home comes next month.

This is not my first home for a client, but its the first to reach this stage of construction. I am super excited!

I owe a lot of my success to sketchucation.com because I learned a lot about sketchup from asking questions here on this site that got me notice by the developer I work for.

Thanks

@pbacot said:

Some nice work. I like the planting in the second and third shots! The pool came out great.

Thanks pbacot, Im still learning and always practicing

Hopefully it would be for as long as it took to finish rather than a flat fee. I hope so anyway.

@pbacot said:

Quite a job! I think I like it better than your other homes, though it has sort of an office building massing. Great work on the video. What software? As far as the video goes, the only thing that is sort of distracting for me is the polished concrete that reflects every light fixture perfectly but nothing else.

Thanks pbacot

I agree way to much reflection on the concreat, haha I did not know how to tweak the setting at that time its a old video.

I have been trying a few new styles, even though the curvy roofs are what I like most I like to venture out and try new styles out side my comfort zone.

I also posted a three level curvy roof building that's a design study I'm currently working on.

This video was made using lumion 5. All my current houses are rendered using Lumion 6 Its not the best in terms of realism but I can do more with it than with all the other renderers quickly.

This is my newest video rendered with lumion 6
Youtube Video

Just to end this thread, this is what I entered for the word "Arrival" (April Contest)

So my thinking is to post an image that tells a story while being representative of what I do. Bridge building robots.....

Thanks!

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Bob James :

Nice submission! 👍

Good luck with it. Let us know the final result

Dave, Thanks, I get the other stuff to do. Sometimes doesn't seem like there's enough hours does it ? Took the raw render into Gimp and ran the "Colorize" tool, played with the settings a little in there. Then tweaked Hue & Saturation levels a little. Chuck.

Quietful piece! 😎

@cotty said:

Nice (as always)!
You should add an Dörr image to the Tagesthemen 😉

Cotty, you're right! but Judith Rakers should still be seen - she looks so beautiful 😆

Jo-Ke - I've discovered every corner of the apartment, great work again!

@cuttingedge said:

The design of the house is awesome. I agree, The plants and rocks would be better in more random placement and size. Otherwise good. Just a thought. Is the fire tapped directly from the desert for fuel? 😄

I am not sure about the fire, i work for a custom home developer in palm springs I will ask about it and get back to you

Thanks pbacot, I did download majid's ice textures just haven't had a chance yet to work with them. Hope to this week.

Sépia! 😄

I was not sure how to name it.. Cafe square or cafe street or something else.. 😄 But i imagine an area that contains only cafes..

I have a great (big) book on the Essential Japanese House" all b&W photos. This would fit right in.

Good job David the fog is very realistic.

Hi Gary i think the arc is to segmented. Use a higher number in your arc. Also consider bevelling the edges for more realism.

I think there's green bleeding on the top of the wall pink and probably you could have a color variation all over the pink... like a huge perlin noise or some grunge.

Also the lighting in the image is on reverse wich tells me there's something near the wall top that's obscuring it.

It's impressive how close your modelling is and the only things differing it from the original are minor details on textures and edge, roundness, roughness or damage. The architecture is so simple and raw, that those are the details that give your image away...

For instance, your window seems almost like contemporary aluminium while Barragan's is clearly rough hand made, probably painted wood/steel and stucco...

Yours is an impressive work so far, but the subject is incredibly difficult.