Shura's event designs

shura

Hi all,

Many of you may have possibly asked themselves "who is that Shura or Alex guy anyway?".
If so, I guess the reason was because I never really posted any serious projects here.

Now I feel it is time for me step out of the shadow and show my face (notice change of avatar).
Of course, like many others I am sometimes too chicken to show off, but that is not the reason.
It is rather that my work basis and also my private life has changed a lot recently and I didn't have any projects in a while.

For almost 18 years I've been working on some sort of artistic approach to lighting and media installations.
The projects I designed were mainly in the fields of architectural projection, nightlife environments and corporate architecture.

I must say that I got tired of all that at some point, but to explain the reasons would take too long now.
At the moment I am having an extended break and take the chance to do some learning and reorientation to find a new focal point.

One thing I already know for sure is that I have become a complete SketchUp enthusiast during the past years,
and I really love what am finding here at SCF.
Probably I have mentioned before that I have a strong sense of thankfulness to all of you guys. I really start feeling at home here.

Still struggling on how to put my portfolio together and hoping that posting pictures may help me to see them from a different
angle, I picked some of my renders to show you.

Please take a look, I would like to know what you're thinking.

best wishes
alex

PS:

Most of the following visualisations are rendered in either Podium or Twilight with rarely any postpro.
Only one render is LightUp output, and another one obviously sketchy lines directly from SU.
Exept one, all of the concepts went into production.

Ross Macintosh

Good looking designs Shura and very effectively communicated. I like your style.

Best of luck deciding what to do next. Have fun!

Regards, Ross

shura

Thank you Ross.
here are some more...

shura

Looking at it again, I have already learned one thing - these are way too many different pictures in one place. In a portfolio this could only be presented as a slideshow.

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dermotcoll

Shura

you are very talented - both as a lighting designer and sketchup modeller - very well done

leminilab

Hi,

I just wanted to thank you for these images. I have seen many amazing models and renders since I started browsing SketchUcation but I'd never seen such nice event/show lightings before.

I'm not going to bother you with questions on your workflow but lighting being my next priority I can only tell you your post is very inspirational!

On the portfolio issue, I found Blogger is a great easy way to keep my portfolio efficiently (I hope... ) organized.

Hope you'll enjoy your new orientation as you obviously enjoyed your time as a designer so far!

Thanks for these, take care,
Nicolas

olishea

fantastic varied work here shura!! you must enjoy what you do

shura

Thank you Dermot, Nicolas and Oli, you are very kind.

Yes, Blogger is very easy to use, I have a portfolio standing there already.
The struggle is more on the decision what kind of services I am going to offer and how to structure the communication...
...but as I am writing this here I am getting another good idea. So it's obvious that I have to give it more time to maturate before I tell you.

btw, how could I be bothered by answering questions? I am learning every day myself, and isn't this exactly what SCF is all about? Please give me the chance to contribute something to your thread in return!

thanks again
alex

jo-ke

wow! This is really very very impressive! I am always interessted in good lightning secens and to learn about rendering that. These are very interessting projects and it shows the right light is everything.

It gives me new inspiration to return to my Disco- project.

How did you set the lightbeams at your stage- render?

shura

glad you like it jo-ke!
Actually I find it not that difficult to achieve an impressive look with lights in saturated colors - although it helps to know what the spots are doing in real life. For me the tricky part is keeping it realistic and not to put more lights in the visualisation than what will be payed for in the end. It can easyly happen that you are promising too much because you wanted your renders look pretty, but there really is no fun in disappointed customers.

I remember that I enjoyed following your Palladium project, would like to see more of that.

The stage is one of my older renders where I created the beams with geometry. Since Podium 1.x has neither spot lights nor volumetrics, I lined up quite a few omni lights inside of a transparent cone. But since you are using TWL you have other possibilities at hand. Maybe you could try to separately render one volumetric light pass with only the beams showing, then overlay in Photoshop with layer mode lighten. This gives you more control and might save some testing.

cheers

Bryan K

Excellent work. Lighting is always the hardest thing and often neglected in real life, yet it makes all the difference in feel and mood of any space.

Well done. Thanks for sharing.