@tuna1957 I'm living vicariously through my renderings.

@tuna1957 Thanks! It's getting pretty wild out here! I created primitive half pipe object in SU and added a cylinder in D5 in front of that

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

@ntxdave Memory. This one is basically like your typical tract ranch with gable ends and a center bump-out. That combined with all the details and elevations I've done over the years. I start with an idea in my mind and go from there. Sometimes I'll mull things over in my head while before I go to sleep. I guess you can look at a lot of house pictures. I stick with standard wall heights, roof slopes, windows, roof types, etc.

@tuna1957 Thanks. Back in the day they would pay good money for a rendering like this. Now you can get something like this from Laos for $150. Soon that will be gone too.

@Rich-O-Brien Groovy, man. Nice. How did you make the tassels?

Here's the EMD SD45 lined up in Conrail, Union Pacific and Burlington Northern liveries.

I blew up a C2 Flexicoil truck which is used on the Burlington Norther and Conrail SD45.

Some of the innards aren't finished or perfectly accurate but since they're not visible from the exterior view I let it go. I got carried away as it is.

Thanks Mike, Rich.

That's the original Sketchup EMD SD-45 model which I imported into D5 and exported as an asset.

Did some mods.

We're expanding!

Finally got on Facebook. I've been posting a lot of renderings there. See you there maybe

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@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich. I haven't thought about that. I know it takes some work setting up a lot of this stuff since it include identity verification, portfolio, samples, etc. I'm not really feeling optimistic about rendering work at all which was never really there even in better economic times. I still have to finish Fiverr. My new phone will help for the identity stuff.

I've been wasting my time with Upwork and going nowhere. [I still can't get over how cheap these people are. Even those in the USA and Australia.] Same thing with my Facebook professional page. The latter I've gotten over 1,200 likes for my ad but no bites for work. I've been getting some drafting work but not as much as I would like. Time's have changed and all the old guys are either retired or dead.

Another view.

Some more interior 3d and rendering work.

I'm actually starting to get more work from Facebook. It's not free though but it's beating Upwork where I've gotten zero work.

Thanks Mike...

Upper level. It's evolving.

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich. I know the owner for many years now. The house here is still under construction. It even has an elevator. He's the client/friend that I've been working on for his Malibu fire house. LA building department is taking forever to the point of being ridiculous.

Here's what it looks like in Sketchup.

I finally found an AI enhancer I can use for renderings that's easy to use and fun at the same time. There's the usual random nature of consistency in the end results. A lot back and forth with text prompts. Sometimes having to start over. Anyway here's one before and after example. I may post some more depending on interest.

Mike, Pixelcruncher,

It is ReRenderAI.com

It's $45/month. I think I can use it for work projects and make money off it.

Of course it's the usual AI so it sometimes does random things like when you think you've finally nailed it down and it totally changes the scene perspective and adds objects. It might be my text input? I don't think it is.

I try and save my text input as a text file if I have to start over.

I should probably round up some architectural samples to post here. I have other stuff I've been experimenting with.