Posts made by anstvam

Michelle Morelan is my rendering mentor. She has been kind enough to mention the patio render on her blog, schematic life, as well. Of course my renderings come nowhere near hers!

"manners maketh a man" is an english proverb so far as I know...
eucalyptus trees-abundant in Greece love to boil the leaves and inhale deeply!
my hand renders-nothing special either, still trying to polish my skills, here are two recent ones.
Oh, just for today's odd info, eucalyptus is a Greek word!

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baz, I must agree with you-it's not a good thing to fool clients.
I have seen wonderful stuff posted here where FS was used. It really is a matter of skill, and it's fair enough, as software "maketh not the man". My attempts are too simplstic, merely push-one-button stuff, I must admit...
Leaving that aside, they seemed decent enough renderings, and I thought I might collect opinions as to how they can fare. I'm always on the hunt for new ways of presenting stuff, especially NPR. I do quite a bit of hand rendering too, but it's not always possible, hence the predilection for (quick) "hand-drawn"-style images.
My native SUp output has to thank the person who contributed the "Pencil Edges with Whiteout Border" style in the Style Buider Competition Winners series. The name escapes me, but I'm sure someone can mention it here as well. It's a wonderful style I use a lot!
I've also checked out the style series you mention, they also rock! And the image you've posted is fab... eucalyptus?

Yup, that very one...

SUp model before FotoSketcher

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No rendering involved. Just SUp and FS. Does anyone think it would work out fine for a presentation?

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A belated NPR one...

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Thanks D. I'll be working on your suggestions. I was wondering how much readable such a rendering is for a client.

Cheers. Any suggestions as to what would need immediate improvement?

Hi everybody, I was wondering how this one seems to you for an NPR presentation...

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Thank you Mike. I wouldn't want to sound a nag, but the tutorial has proved very difficult for me to understand.
I just wish someone could take the time to actually explain the stages in creating such a model. I know there are people around who can tackle projects 20 times as difficult as this. Let's hope someone does show an interest in this...

Thank you for taking the time to do this. Unfortunately, I am none the wiser as to how you went on modelling the chair... You have probably misunderstood my level of SU competence for way higher than it really is.
I suppose I will have to repeat my request to anybody who could oblige to make a video, or at least a detailed tutorial. And maybe I should also repeat that I am prepared to pay something for the time they will devote to it.
Thanks again, Anastassis

I'd be grateful to have a tut on this, Elisei!

I guess I should have been clearer indeed Mike. I'm an interior designer ever on the hunt for good models for my presentations to clients. I do not actually make the furniture, I just specify it...
Good God, Elisei... If only I could watch how you did this on a video with you describing the steps!...

Thanks guys for being so prompt in helping out!
Mike, thanks for the tips. I sincerely wish I were in a position to explain my workflow to you, as I have none. So far I've just tried to find free models for my renderings here and there...
The only thing I've thought about was whether I could somehow work on the basis of importing the image on a block, then start tracing over it with say, some sort of a bezier tool and then... it's the 2d to 3d that leaves me staring blankly at the screen...
I'll have a look at what you suggest. Is "vanilla" SU another term for just plain SU?(just being a dummy again, sorry!)
Dedmin, thanks for the link. They don't exactly exlain how they do the stuff, but then, I take it there are clever people reading them! I'll also have a look at the plug-ins you suggested, although the mere term plug-in makes me tremble. But I'm determined to learn.
Gaieus, thanks for giving this a try! The "Subdivide and Smooth" is a very popular plug in, although I'm only familiar with the name. I must have seen a Corinthian column modelled by you somewhere on the forum, I remember the awe I stood in, being Greek and being an ignoramus. Great work!
Still, I'd find it invaluable (and I would like to think I'm not the only one)if people who love doing this around here could show us a structured way of tackling these projects. Of course I'm well aware there's more than one way of modelling this...

Hi everybody. I strongly feel it's time I got round to learning how to model my own furniture... The Finn Juhl chair I uploaded is the kind of furniture I use a lot in my presentations, so it's just about where I dream of arriving at some point not so far down the road...
This is by no means a disguised attempt to end up with a free 3d model of the particular chair. My sincere aim is to start tackling the daunting task of modelling organic shapes/ curves and so on. I feel I could benefit immensely from a structured series of lessons on how to model furniture. Would it be realistic for there to exist a series of video tutorials about modelling various types of furniture for the rest of us to learn? Kind of like the Aidan Chopra YouTube SketchUp for Dummies videos which I remember were a true revelation to a true dummy . I find I respond well to sound and image combined.
I think I could go so far as to pay a reasonable fee by way of registration to "attend" the "course". I realise there's work entailed here, but I'm sure there are people around who would derive pleasure from doing this.
Thanks a lot for reading this. Any suggestion would be helpful. Each time I get round to doing something, I end up drowning in a sea of ruby scripts for this and that.
Keep up the good work!
Anastassis

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Love it, especially the staircase. Try applying a gaussian blur on the linework level in Photoshop, it renders nicer.
Keep it up!

Some renders I prepared for a project I'm currently working on. SU & VRay.

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Here's a project I've been working on lately. Again, VRay and SU linework. Picking up on many people's remarks about SUp's poor performance on high-poly support, I must say I'm getting all the more disappointed with how sluggish the model becomes far too soon in the process I've been trying like hell to avoid learning 3ds Max, but I'm seeing no way out with SU when it comes to even medium-scale interior projects with quite a few imported models in them...

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Hi everybody. Never posted anything here so far, although I've been frequenting here this last year.
This is a kitchen remodel I did for my brother. VRay and SU linework combined. Nothing new, and it certainly doesn't compare to any of several marvellous renderings of the sort featured here. Just a beginning...
Comments and Criticism most welcome.
Anastassis

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