Couple new pool renders (Vray)

cmoreink · 26 Jan 2010, 17:28

Great work

CaptainsLS · 26 Jan 2010, 18:14

Nice renders Adam, I’m really digging the planting scheme! The second and third image sells the job for me. Is the pergola a prefab unit? I’d love to see the bases (about half way up the supports) be veneer matching the spa veneer. That would tie everything together IMO. Your waterfalls never cease to disappoint, but the first one is a bit over exposed. Nice work!

EarthMover · 27 Jan 2010, 01:35

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Captain...the pergola is a prefab. It's the same one I modeled a while ago, just without the shutters. Waterfall was recycled from another job also. I agree on the stone support columns. This is actually not my job, or my design. It's for another contractor out of Missouri. I did the modeling and rendering based off of a few photos and a Dynascape blueprint. Personally, I'm not in love with the planting scheme (or the pergola placement) and would never put three Blue Atlas cedars and three dogwoods together like that, but hey...to each his own.

BTW - None of the plants were added in photoshop. They were all faceme components added directly in Sketchup using RPTools component browser, my Cadplants library (which I renamed to include both common and botanical name) and the layer face camera plugin. I can just type in almost any plant name and instantly have a few dozen to choose from and RP tools lets you just click and drop as many plants as you'd like. I swapped some of the generic trees and shrubs out for 3D trees in Max. Also, in Max I typically put all the faceme plants on their own layer and for each render view, I select all the plants at once and rotate them at the parent level which rotates them all on their own axis. It does take time to try and adjust each plant later as a lot of the cadplants are over saturated, but it's still quicker than photoshopping in a whole landscape design for every render, especially when using the PSD manager to assign each plant to it's own channel.

Here's a few of the raw renders....they were nothing too special.

marked001 · 27 Jan 2010, 01:51

awesome stuff......great job with the pp... the second to last with the waterfall is definitely my favorite.. but the integration with the background photos in the other (despite being low res) really sells them.

EarthMover · 27 Jan 2010, 02:05

Thanks Jason! Gotta love Ron's waterfall brushes for PS!

CaptainsLS · 27 Jan 2010, 02:36

Yeah, I’m not liking the cedars at all. A nice row of blue spruce would be killer… Other than that I like the plantscape. Too bad this isn’t one of yours, I’m sure your gonna have more pools in the pipeline once you finish up the current pool job.

EarthMover · 27 Jan 2010, 03:19

I don't know Captain..I try and keep Blue Spruce away from the pool. Needles are too sharp. I like perhaps Cryptomeria with Crape Myrtles, or keeping the Yellow dogwood and doing Heritage River Birch instead of the Blue Atlas. Fastigiata Blue Atlas might work there, but the regular cultivar gets like 25' wide.

I hope to land some more Pool designs and installs. Fact is, I should be out selling spring work right now instead of freezing my azz off doing masonry by day and other contractors designs by night. I'm almost done our current pool job, then I have to try and really market for spring work. Here's a progress timeline of the current pool build I put together - http://www.facebook.com/#/album.php?aid=179089&id=230582785069&ref=mf Kind of neat to see the progression from render to build.

olishea · 27 Jan 2010, 12:17

great work mate

michaliszissiou · 27 Jan 2010, 13:02

Very nice adam, difficult scene, I really like them.

EarthMover · 27 Jan 2010, 13:12

Thanks Michalis and Oli!

d12dozr · 27 Jan 2010, 13:59

Good job Adam, I liked your Facebook album and its clear that you guys know your stuff (that's coming from a cementhead) Excellent work - on the renders and on the job!

EarthMover · 27 Jan 2010, 14:08

Thanks Marcus. Yeah, the construction is what I'm doing for 50+ hours a week. Running the business, sales, design and rendering gets squeezed into the remaining 30 hours of my 80 hour work weeks. Needless to say, I don't often have near as much time as I'd like to spend on my modeling and rendering. This year, hopefully I can hire a good project manager and get out of the field...although it's in my blood and I'd probably miss it too much!!

stefanq · 27 Jan 2010, 19:53

@earthmover said:

I'd probably miss it too much!!

You can play in the "sandbox" whenever you like!
Adam, you're a man with many skills. I hope you'll get the extra-time that you need so bad.
Regards,
Stefan

teofas · 28 Jan 2010, 08:02

what the F..word!! i thought at first they were photos, wow bro, very nice renders!! only critic is output, i think its too small to enjoy all the details, anyway awsome renders!

EarthMover · 28 Jan 2010, 13:01

Thanks Teo....means a lot coming from your bro! I should probably double my output size. What size do you typically output renders at? My render times were like 12 minutes on these, so I could afford to go bigger.

Stefan, thanks for the kind words.

FoXar · 28 Jan 2010, 20:53

Very inspiring post-pro , I get too do many similar projects like these of patio's and damn I could really improve

ken28875 · 17 Feb 2010, 23:51

Awesome renders, Adam!

jarynzlesa · 26 Feb 2010, 21:17

great work