sweet

my girlfriend flew out today and said it was 35 degrees just as it started to rain here for the gazzillionth time.....sucks to be us

http://www.cben.net has a few in acad format that could be of use

hi, how did you do the background (to make it look like snow flakes/drops were falling)? ive always wanted to add things like fireflies to jazz up some night shots but havent been able to find an efficient way to do it

im not usually a big fan of interior shots but that looks amazing i am quite keen on Artlantis too but my images look nowhere near as nice as that good work!

'let the ground tremble with fear, for the age of cat-handed-men is upon us'

hi this probably won't interest everyone but i wanted to pose the question- how do you add value to a house?

i dont mean by building an extension to it, i wanted to just focus on new build...

for instance i could build a house on stilts and have some kind of pond underneath with atriums and sun tubes to support life thus adding ecological value to the home...SU model to come soon

Other answers welcome

hi, this looks great so far... forgive my ignorance but could you go through how you have went about texturing the various parts?
did u draw the chiped away parts and then extrude and colour and alter the texture map or is there some photomatching involved
Keep up the good work!

thats so cool!

yeah its really good,just a small thing about the trees... were they put in with photoshop im not completely convinced about the shadow positioning on them, also a shadow on the man would be nice...
otherwise its pretty impressive! how long did it take (SU, kerk, PS)?

absolutely awesome

Up until now i have been using Google earth for a lot of my map/ site sourcing but then i found out about windows live maps

http://maps.live.com/

they are great, nice resolution, the best bit is the bird eye view that u can rotate around, im really glad i found it- hope it is of use to others

what do u guys think? google earth or live maps?

yep i, didnt really have enough time to add too much detail or refine it thats why i blacked most of it out on the image

thanks for that james, i had no idea they wanted so many crossings, my general problem with londons planning is the east/west divide thats beginning to formalthough hopefully the developments for the olympics and help to resolve it, i suppose its nice to zone off the different typologies but it densifies the residential too much

The balance between the stylised and realistic elements are great and the level of detail is very impressive, how big is the file for this mode? i didnt notice too mnany textures (that would be of considerable size) but it works well in the overall effect

absoloutely right it is London, our final project is based in london, im looking at brownfield / derelict areas by the rivers but have been having trouble finding a site of topological interest, as my building design techniques try to disregard ground clearance and other mechanised interventions with the natural landscape
ive narrowed it down to....

Battersea power station

South bank centre

perhaps somewhere within the docks (near city airport)

do u know of a site (preferrably by the water) im heading over to london on saturday

Its for a piece of work i am doing on designing a manifesto for a city, heres the preliminary result...
the panel will be the height of an a4 and the length of an a1

thats really strange i dont quite get it, could it be possible that the measurement of the line is off by like 0.0001 of a millimeter or something?

heres a background image i produced from one of my sketchup models

Modelled in SU

merged in Photoshop

comments welcome

ahhh ok its my misunderstanding, i thought the lightr was coming from the windows and so would fall on the same angle as the windows (which conveniently would fit in with the road.
sorry about that