After a long period of hiatus from sketchucation, i'm back after a year due to loads of work. I'm posting something that i did a few months ago for our client's living room. C&Cs are very much welcome.

Here's another version of this rendering i wasn't satisfied with the first post. I tweaked the couch and the background thing, i feel it's quite incomplete and too bright for the mood. So here it is, you guys might wanna compare it with the previous one. Thanks. Enjoy, C&Cs are very much welcome.

@modelhead: thanks for the comment bro! the couch work depicts something that says "restless be not, you're the one i only love"!! hehe!!

@mitcorb: thank you very much!! your comment is just like my special someone, it makes my heart skip a beat!!haha!! thanks once again.

bro, this kicks ass with a lot of details!! fantastic work here!!

@numbthumb: bro, thanks for the comment!! You're right about the Beatles, the song is something, and my "special someone" is a fan of the Beatles, as well.

@bryan k: thanks bro!! i, myself, is also dreaming of living in such cool places!! together with whom this render is for!!

Hi everyone, it's been quite long that i haven't visited due to loads of work inside the office. I'm back with a rendering fresh from the oven!! i've put lotsa love in this work, because it's for "someone special", that i hold so dearly and secretly in the deepest recesses of my heart!!

I hope you guys like it!! Enjoy!! C&Cs are very much welcome!!

hi ken, these renders are very fantastic, most especially the temple and the one with the cars!!

pyroluna: thanks for the compliment, and dropping by once again. the renderer i used, vray for sketchup. never mind the graininess, it keeps up with the quite dirty atmosphere of the room.

lapx: thanks bro!! my technique for the carpet, import any colorful jpeg or bitmap into sketchup and use as texture. after that put some displacement on the texture with a multiplier of, say 5 to 8. that's it!! you have a colorful carpet in your scene.

i must say, very fantastic work here!! nice textures!!! makes me insane to the membrane!!

numbthumb, thanks for welcoming me back bro! i just noticed only now, that your signature is comfortably numb. i would say this piece i made, would coincidentally be a tribute to you and pink floyd!! At first i was thinking of doing a tribute to pink floyd, while boredom kickin' in, i decided to listen to comfortably numb and have a cigar alternately, over and over again. This was the result.

hi to all, i'm back with my latest render entitled "comfortably numb. i did this during my free time, out of boredom. C&C's are very much welcome.

@ken: thanks for the comment bro, as well as the advice, i'll try to tweak the render with regards to the fog.

thank you for dropping by,sires.

yup, the render is intentionally dark, to depict an old building turned into something of business that is calm and yet chilling in atmosphere, the restaurant as front and mob operations at the back. if you'll notice the airship at the upper right, its the goodyear one, as seen by tony montana in the movie scarface, just to remind of mob stuff. basically, its all about the mob, but only in the philippine sort of setting. the building used here, is located at escolta, manila.

its quite a while since i've been here. nice to be back and be able to render freely on my own pace. here's a render of mine, which i did each time i was free from work. c&c's are very much welcome.

this piece was inspired by an old building in manila that was "wrongly" developed as a commercial establishment.

@andrija: thanks for the comment bro!!

@ken: 1. the cat is meant to be that way, depicting something quite evil's transformation into something of this world.

2. the tombstone has some sort of subliminal message regarding, that's why its that way. Simply means, your supreme being is over you in no matter what perspective you are in, empty or not as a worldly creation.

3. the candlelight, i'll be trying to add some. actually the ghost in one of the towers and the old dude carrying wood upon the entrance, are from the album of led zeppelin, IV.

thanks for the c&cs bro!!

@numbthumb: nice to have you back bro!! actually, these images, are culminations of zeppelin and hendrix...and yes black sabbath as you've perceived it.

sorry for giving you the creeps man!! hehe!! and thanks btw!

Heres an update on my previous thread, all along the watchtower, a few weeks ago. its a hendrix inspired piece of work, did it for fun.

i hope the suggestion by rick graham on my previous thread would become a reality, a render or model this competition, according to your fave song or artist. hehe!!

C&Cs are very much welcome!!

@rick graham: man that would be a great idea, a "model this" competition for each and everyone's favorite song or artist. i'd be willing to join with a new entry, a led zeppelin song perhaps!!! hehe!! let's get it on!!!

@massimo, @numbthumb: yes it was hendrix' version that inspired this work.

guys, rick graham was suggesting to have a competition, "model this" based on your fave artist or song!! that would be fun!! raise your hands for this to push through!!

@cmoreink: thanks for the constructive criticism. it's alright, if you see it that way. Each and everyone has his own view on art. I made this for the sake of fun, just to kill time.

@KXI systems, @d12dozr: thanks man for the suggestions!! it was fun having you and the other guys on this thread giving c&c's, it has helped me alot to be a better 3d visualizer.

i'll be posting a new tower by the 24th or 25th of March, please watch out for it, it'll be an entry for an exterior rendering competition on a certain filipino graphics website.
thanks again guys!! see ya!!

@flipya: nothing to apologize about, man. i myself am a musician, a guitar dude specifically, who loves classic rock stuff, altogether with blues and jazz.

as for the rendering, i used vray for sketchup, with the 7am shadow on, together with the bumps. post rendered with photoshop, tweaked the saturation and brightness til i got what i wanted, sharpened a bit to emphasize the textures. then added trees and the full moon background, and finally turning all of it to black and white. that"s it!!

@KXI systems: i'll be trying to add some details to the textures. thanks a lot man!!