@rv1974 said:

both design and visuals are awful

Thanks for taking a look

@mike amos said:

Nicely done, great presentation.

Thank you Mike I appreciate it

@mike amos said:

Very sharp mate, being ready to change things, something we all share.

Thank you

@tuna1957 said:

Nice clean presentation

Thank You

@bryan k said:

Nice design!

Thank You

@bryan k said:

Holy cow! That's incredible detail work!

Nice design as well. I'd love to eat there!

Thank you

I still see somethings I need to change, hahaha

@tuna1957 said:

Nice and clean. Good job.

Thank You

I appreciate it

@pbacot said:

Top notch and exciting design and drawings, as usual!

Thank You

I really appreciate it

A gas station that I created for the background of my Kimonos restaurant design. I thought I would add a bit more detail to it and post it here. I think I am going to add a full interior to it at some point.

This restaurant design came about after a attempt to see if I could add a video of a waterfall into lumion as a texture. It work ok but the video resolutions was not so good. Now I have taken the design so much further, maybe I went to far haha.

It has grown to become a full restaurant with a fill interior. I wanted to see if I could make this look uinque.

@mike amos said:

I think it's magic, wonderful.

Thank You

@bryan k said:

That's a clever solution that looks great!

Thanks Brian K

@pbacot said:

You always have the most incredible designs, firstlight! Kudos!

Thank You

Here is the Sketchup model of a house I've just finished designing, and a Lumion render of the sketchup model. The YouTube video will be completed soon.

A attempt to add a video in Lumion to simulate a waterfall outside a window. So I built a room around the waterfall video in sketchup and imported to lumion.

What do you think?

@pbacot said:

Thanks for posting Firstlight. Long time no see. Always imaginative designs and presentations!

Hello pbacot it also nice to hear from you again, and I hope all is well with you and your family in theses crazy time.

Thank you

@ntxdave said:

Very interesting design. I did not watch the entire video (kind of long) but was impressed with it. In particular the animation of the fire places and water falls, the reflections and rippling of the water in the pool, the lighting effect of the setting sun, and the animation of the video screens. Well done.

Would you mind sharing what tools you used to generate the rendering and animations?

Hello Dave, nice to hear from you. I hope you and your family are doing well. Yeah the video is way to long but I wanted to show so much it I left it all in hahaha. I think I will do a shorter version of it.

The rendering program is Lumion 10, but Lumion 11 is about to come out soon.

Its Lumion 10 making it look good, that part is not from me haha. I just had to learn how to tweak the settings to my liking.

Thanks for liking it.

I have not posted here in a while, So I thought I would post one of my latest designs, Its a very large mansion made of mostly hexagons shapes.

Its has a lagoon pool, Cabana, 5 car Garage, Guest House, Gym, Chiefs Kitchen, Kitchen Media Room, Center Atrium, Office, and Studio. Theater, Master Laundry Room, Guest Laundry Room. 4 Bedrooms, and more.
https://youtu.be/jEGwzNMrij4

@ken28875 said:

Very nice designs and renders, Aaron.

I mostly use V-Ray for SketchUp, but I have moved onto Lumion3d for all my new renders the past year. You can't beat the amazing speed and all the people, trees, etc. that come with the software.

Cheers,

_KN

Thank you ken28875

I love using sketchup and lumion, lately I have ideas of shapes I want to try that I don't yet know how to create in sketchup, more organic type buildings like Zaha Hadid.

I have been thinking of trying FormZ 8 to model with because its something like sketchup but with nurbs tools.

@pbacot said:

Really imaginative houses you make. I find the round elements interesting as a motif. Your renderings are fun with all the lighting. Better than ever (though I do seem some inexplicable reflections of the lights e.g. on the pavement. What's the renderer?

Thank you pbacot. I do like to create interesting shaped homes I find it challenging and very exciting. In this design I wanted to try using those round areas as a design feature throughout. I have hundreds of houses I have sketches of that I have not gotten too. When I have a idea I make a quick sketch and then file it away haha, until I get time to come back to them.

See attached image of a sketch of a home I want to design for a lot in Temecula, California.

I think the light refection's on the pavement are on the images of the old design I re-posted that one of the other posters thought was this new design. The reposted images was done at a time when I did not know how to control the reflection's in Lumion 6 (I Use Lumion 6 Pro) will be upgrading to Lumion 7 Pro soon.

One of the best parts of modeling for me is getting to the render stage, it motivates me to keep going while modeling.