Château

[Gus R]

I have too many renderings of this project. Here's one.

[tuna1957]

Excellent rendering. Nice place but not sure I would be comfortable living in a place like that.

[Gus R]

@tuna1957 Think of the heating bill! I don't think I can see myself living in anything I've rendered.

[ntxdave]

@Gus-R How do you model stuff like this?

Renders look great.

[Gus R]

@ntxdave Thanks Dave. A lot of tedious work and trial and error and my imagination. Started using outside assets since I figured that I can't or don't need to model everything. In this case I saw the sample image and started with a simple Sketchup component for the ceiling and went from there.

Lots of Profile Builder 3 moulding. For the stairs I started with a spiral staircase base made using 1001bit tools. Countless hours later I came up with the (almost) final stairs on the right. I used Fredo's Curviloft for the outer stringer as well as Fredo's bezier tools as well as Profile Builder 3 for some details and the handrails. The balusters were found at 3D Warehouse.

So imagination, knowing basic carpentry or architectural sizes, using Sketchup tools and experimenting, using assets, a lot of tedious work and trying to not call into the perfectionist trap. That and a lot of bugsplats.

Forgot to mention that solids don't have to be perfect solids. You can't notice any little bugs in the rendering.

[ntxdave]

I wish I had the skill and knowledge to do things like this.

[L i am]

I like the last render a lot and especially the god rays. I did not think about heating It but it makes sense. Perhaps 1 or 3 couple if fireplaces , and a bit more wood, may make the image more homely

[Mike Amos]

They are bloody fantastic.

[Gus R]

Thanks!

Some extras. OK, I keep trying different things.

[Gus R]

Nothing to do no where to go oh.

[Mike Amos]

Very sharp scene and render. I had thought the item on the floor was a banana, which would have added a comedic value but 'tis merely a reflection. I very nearly fell off my chair laughing at the "Gormless rich" so thanks for that.

[Gus R]

@Mike-Amos I actually did a "what's that?" when I first saw "the banana" on the floor.

[Bryan K]

Stunning work!