Looks great Francois. Here's the thread at the Cheetah3d forum.
http://cheetah3d.de/forum/showthread.php?t=1839
The new Cheetah really has some great new features. Cheetah3d is a great, inexpensive software for the Mac and does really nice animation to boot. ALL Mac owners should be using it. I'm going to mess it with and see if I can catch up with the Francois and the others at the Cheetah forum!
@unknownuser said:
I do have both the Orff version of Carmina and Philip Pickett's "medieval" interpretation of the poems on my Ipod, too. Of course, Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi does not encourage model making. Rather, on listening I find myself fighting the urge to put on polished plate armor, mount a warhorse, and ride through a grove of flowering fruit trees to almost certain death in battle against the forces of evil.
Oh, wait...no, that's a flashback from Excalibur.
Orff makes me thirsty.
@unknownuser said:
I also have the Requiem on my 'pod. Of course, it's a rather shocking shuffle to go from that to "Under My Wheels."
Better that than "Dead Babies".
Heard Mendelssohn's Elijah performed at Frank Gehry's Pritzker the other night. Might have to add that to the playlist at work. Very good pice of music at an outstanding outdoor theater.
http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/jay_pritzker_pavilion.html
Opera is also a good music for late nights at the computer. Carmina Burana comes to mind, although I'm not sure that it technically qualifies as opera.
The "Girl from Ipanema" is really out there. Better than the original though!
K is for Krackpots! 
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@unknownuser said:
What do I listen to these days? Autechre, AFX, Plaid, and maybe some Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails when I want to cheer myself up. Our IT tyrant has banned internet radio at work, but before that I spent a lot of time with SomaFM's Cliqhop and this weird Czech station that is all Trent Reznor, all the time (NINnet).
Do you really listen to Rammstein, Jeff?
Yea, Du Hast and Engle are a couple of my screaming favorites. I like NIN too. Devo; Kraftwerk; Karl Orff; RL Burnside; Soul Coughing, Eels; Liquid Soul; Medeski, Martin and Wood; Bitter:Sweet; Sountrack from Baraka; and the Pixies have all been on my play list in the last week.
Buffett and Bob Marley were about it over the holiday weekend.
@craigd said:
Wow Bob! That's fantastic work!
Did you make that all in SketchUp?
Cheers,
- CraigD
I don't see Director Bob around so I will attempt to answer that. That's all SketchUp. Really, really nice SketchUp.
You need to go to this link and see the actual progress shots. Really nice work. Nice renderings too.
I'm going to post another sample. I hope Joel doesn't mind.
Outstanding SketchUp work Director Bob (Joel)! Evertime I see your work on this bike I'm amazed. The pipes are very impressive. I couldn't model something like that to save my life. Renders look great too.
Welcome to the forum! Let's see some more.
very cool render! the one thing that bugs me is how shiny the stone on the ground is, seems a bit polished for the outside, but creates a cool effect!
good going, amazing work!
DOF field makes it look small as if photographed with a macro lens. You have blur on both top and bottom which wouldn't happen with a normal lens and a normal size object. If decieves the eye. Cool trick.
Great pics shoreline99. I recently saw a documentary on the Farnsworth House. The Glass House is another" house I wouldn't live in, but love to look at" piece of modern history.
p.s. As a final touch, put some Crocs on Phil in the lawnmower shot. Some nice yellow ones would be good.
Yep, I posted something around 3 this afternoon and by 4 it was gone.
Greetings from Vancouver. It's BC Day! Woo Hoo!
The one on the right is the only one close to the original shape–low poly, high poly, no poly. Very Happy
Jackson,
The last image ran for 4 hours on my 8-core. A bunch of processors is the only thing that makes Maxwell a real option. I'm going to try to network my old G5 and a couple of dual G4's together to and see if I can't get the network render going. Processors, and lot's of them, are Maxwell's only hope.
Also, little grain is good in my opinion. If an image is too clean then it doesn't look any better that one with a lot of grain. Try duplicating the main image into another layer. Do a high-pass filter at about 4 percent on the copy and set it to overlay. This will sharpen up the details nicely. Then switch back to he original layer and use a plugin like Noise Ninja. This will help kill some of the noise but the high-pass will help the image stay sharp. I've also used Noise Ninja on the high-pass layer, but at a real low setting. This will help with the noise too. I always render my images to at least 3000-3200 on the long side, then reduce after all the above.
Another shot at the model I rendered in Modo, but this time in Maxwell. Might be a nice comparison for those interested in either of these two renderers.
Modo render: http://www.sketchucation.com/community/forums/suc/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=254&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=10
The Maxwell renders are just so much nicer than anything excpet for maybe Vray. It's all about the light and Maxwell has that down to a science. Trying real hard to get the materials thing figured out. I really need to work on my rice paper material. One of these days.
@unknownuser said:
Whaat wrote:
[One workaround to the issue of messy, slow, highpoly models is the use of dummy components. In the case of your image, you could create high poly versions of the table and chairs and then use the Sketchup Component browser to replace the low poly versions just prior to exporting to Maxwell. Even better would be if this process could be performed automatically when you export. This feature will be in the next version of SkIndigo (Indigo exporter). It is a truly powerful and useful feature and I expect other render exporters will also have that feature in the future.
http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1177&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30Whaat
Great feature. Still, that's 2 models for every component. What a pain. Better to learn a different modeler than create and manage all those components. It's doubtful that a group like FormFonts will carry a high and low-poly version of all it's models.
Great tips Kwisty. Thanks.
I will also add, from my fine arts side, that even with complete command of the technical side of archViz, you still be to have a good understanding of color, composition, proportions etc. Study some of the great architectural photographers of our time. Look at the past past images of groups like Hedrick-Blessing.
http://www.hedrichblessing.com/ (take a look at the classic images)
Go to a museum and look at the masterpieces. They all have one thing in common-good control over these basic design criteria. Inspiration comes from the most unlikely places.
@unknownuser said:
kwistenbiebel wrote:
Maybe we should have another sort of 'beveling/chamfering' in Sketchup. One that works like the 'smooth/soften edges' option in sketchup,meaning a non destructive bevel option that can be applied to an object/group/component. I don't know if such a thing is possible and how that could work.
Probably could be done in SketchUp, but I doubt it would hold up when sent to a rendering package or exported. Sounds good though.
