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    • DanielD Offline
      Daniel
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      INTERESTING DESIGN

      My avatar is an anachronism.

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        lewiswadsworth
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        Thanks, Eric, Stinkie and Dale. I'm seeing a lot of flaws and bad choices in these things now, as usual once I've sent things off.

        @unknownuser said:

        Keep 'em coming, Lewis. I'd like to see you have a go at using a photoreal renderer. Curious about what you'd come up with.

        ...but photorealis one of things I do when people pay me...I have three different licenses to VRay, for instance. It's not my idea of fun, although of I admire those who can do it really well (like Solo, KB, and Silverlight, among other luminaries here).

        The stylization of the images above reflect some of my recent interest in the approach to architectural depiction in certain dark and surreal graphic novels that were recommended to me by Frenchy Pilou on another forum.

        Still, one of the other reasons I developed this model was to experiment with software that might be of use in illustrating architecture. I usually don't have the leisure for experimenting when working for someone. So there are other renderers and tools on my list. But Piranesi cost me a considerable sum, and I'm determined that is at the top of learning curve now.

        col sporcar si trova

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          remus
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          Thats very cool, i really like the look and feel of the building, you seem to ave captured an essence very well 👍

          http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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            lewiswadsworth
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            @watkins said:

            Dear Lewis,

            Would you write a few words about the project's brief please. The title Stormhouse suggests a refuge of some kind. Is this the case? The only storm houses I can think of are in Bangladesh where the division between land and water is a variable dictated by tidal surges in the Bay of Bengal and the monsoon rains.

            Regards,
            Bob

            I did write some craziness about this that went with the submitted images:

            stormhouse-LWadsworth.pdf

            A kind of visual notion for a waterfront structure like this came to me almost 8 years ago while I was walking in the "flood-danger zone" outside of Providence's Fox Point hurricane barriers, and eventually I figured out what my imagined structure was for...it's another elliptical little dark fantasy like this one. Believe it or not, there is a certain "market" (in an intellectual sense, if not a financial one, anyway) for such things in the profession, and every year there are a certain number of (generally disparaged) competitions for "unbuilt architecture" or "fantastic architecture."

            I should add that most of the real projects with which I have been involved would not be worth the bandwidth for me to show them here...boring labs, dormitories, and federal facilities...nothing worth thinking about or remembering.

            Here's a Picasa web album of a variety of older versions of this beast, including an embarrassingly naive hand-axon-drawing from a long time ago.

            col sporcar si trova

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            • StinkieS Offline
              Stinkie
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              I do. But you gotta, at least in my opinion, vary the line width. Right now, the images are too "Tintin", if you know what I mean. While I'm at it: the sky pic's too much, imho.

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              • Mike LuceyM Offline
                Mike Lucey
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                Great work Lewis .... maybe a movie / animation might be on the cards?

                Mike

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                  lewiswadsworth
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                  That would be kind of challenging, Mike. It's worth a shot...I'll add it to the ever-increasing list of things I want to experiment with.

                  Photoshop Extended can do movies after a fashion, but Piranesi can't...

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                    lewiswadsworth
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                    Thanks. I'll have to think about how to do the line business...maybe by applying a depth of field mask onto the shadow-only layer before I start the rigmarole of creating the photocopy effect. I could also start with wider profile lines, and hit their layer with a DOF if the Styles window isn't helpful enough (EDIT:Piranesi will do this with edges.) There are profile-only and lines-only output layers, but the latter rarely survives into the final render.

                    I was just looking at some of Schuiten's drawings, and his profile lines stay fairly consistent in width from near to far, but the contents (including edges, shading, and colors) tend to disappear with distance.

                    col sporcar si trova

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                      EddyNL
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                      Nice model.
                      Reminds me of Fallout and Mad Max.

                      viewtopic.php?f=271&t=11903 Modelling my city for Google Earth!

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                        matteo
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                        I'm amazed. Your entire workflow is just gorgeous. There are many design elements which I like a lot. Thank you for sharing this.

                        /matteo

                        hire me: http://www.nonsolo3d.it/ !

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                          chango70
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                          Gorgeous 👍

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                            lewiswadsworth
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                            Well, thanks guys. That cheers me up quite a bit. I was just going through the typical bleeding-edge architecture and 3D modeling sites last night and thinking to myself that I was completely out of step with everything...both trends in design (generative-script-driven stuff is everywhere) and in modeling/rendering (parametrics/BIM and ever-more-life-like variations on raytracing).

                            I hope to have some time to elaborate this project further and try some other rendering processes soon.

                            col sporcar si trova

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                              lewiswadsworth
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                              The way I made these images with PS and GIMP, I developed the "fake bad photocopy" B&W parts first, and only later blended in the colors (there weren't any real textures in the SU file, at least on the building portion of the model). I was really tempted to consider a couple of these "bad photocopy" versions done with just a little color, but I didn't have the nerve to submit any of them.

                              So here are two saved "out-takes" of two of the above pictures. Does anyone prefer these to the final versions in my first post? I'd like to know before I undertake any new images in this "style", assuming I do this again.

                              1-LWadsworth-SH-altBW-2.jpg
                              5-LWadsworth-SH-stairs-altBW-1.jpg

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                                mateo soletic
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                                Beautifull work Lewis. 👍

                                [Concept Illustrations](http://concept-illustrations.com/)

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                                  lewiswadsworth
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                                  Finally had a chance to work through the Piranesi tutorials, so here's the first result.

                                  6-LWadsworth-SH-viewS-alt.jpg

                                  A higher resolution version of the same image is available in this gallery on Picasa. (The faked "etching texture" of the background texture is more visible in the higher res version.)

                                  I rather disliked the original view towards the South (north elevation in perspective) shown in the first post of this thread because of the non-human (but not particularly bird-like) point-of-view. This is more reasonable, from eye-height for a 6' tall human. Pity it's too late to re-submit the image.

                                  I'm finding Piranesi to be a fight...so far, it seems to be the most expensive Photoshop accessory ever (as far as I am concerned), because almost inevitably the output needs pixel-scrubbing and layering in ways that don't seem easily achievable with Piranesi alone. I'm not sure I like this as much as the "bad photocopy" pre-Piranesi NPR renderings posted before, although it is in fact much more like a Schuiten-type illustration (which may not be a good thing--there's something deceitful about faking older illustration media with digital means. This is not a pen-and-ink drawing, anymore than a VRay rendering would be a photograph).

                                  col sporcar si trova

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