It's REALLY dark mate!

@mike amos said:

The fact is, should I be lucky enough to live in one of those, I would be happy as a cat up a tree, with a whole salmon.

Classic! Yeah I'd be happy too!

@mike amos said:

The usual high quality with simple and elegant description/marketing form. A lesson in and of itself.

Thanks Mike! Luckily the design utilising panels only in construction meant keeping it very simple.

Here is a shot from SU of the general panel arrangement.

Does anyone know if there has been any progress on the workflow from SketchUp to Unreal Engine? Obviously without going through Blender?

@jo-ke said:

Wow! What nice work.

Always nice to see ideas become real

Thanks mate, it really is nice to see things come to life! Shame it's on the other side of the country, a 4 hour flight if I want to have a peep myself!

I'd love the time to get back onto this Majid, I did work out a funky way to arrange geometry that made rearrangement of any tree a breeze!

@jo-ke said:

you're right but the customer wanted it that way...

Shame in a way, the space left between the top of the cushions and top of the bar behind would have made for a nice book slot.

@majid said:

I will never forget your tree factory! that was a great idea to prepare realistic trees at the era that there were no good models. I thought you have improved some of those trees and used power of maxwell render over your model. though it makes me to try modeling and rendering your design

Majid, that is SO LONG ago, yeah it was at a time when nothing tree wise was available for SketchUp, though now there is a wealth of vegetation options.

These days I'm not so fussed on 3D tree models in renders, the time time and ease to add them post pro seems much more efficient. I might have got lazy!

@ntxdave said:

Well done sir........I am just trying to learn how to render and things like this represent the target I am trying to hit. Mine does not need to be a photo realistic as yours but it is the type of result that is inspirational.

Sorry mate! I've lead you astray, these are ALL as Solo points out Photos of the actual display home!

BTW Render like that! I'd even like to be able to take a photo like that!

@mike lucey said:

Very clean design there Richard.

BTW, have you seen,

'Sustainable home can be built in four days using only a screwdriver'

http://www.popup-house.com/en/

http://www.popup-house.com/en/what-is-a-passive-h

I'm still reading about the 'patented' system and like what I see so far.

Mike

Yeah I have seen it Mike! It's a BRILLIANT system, this display home here uses SIP panels for all the floor, walls and roofing but in probably a more simple install than POP-UP.

The actual footing system is VERY cool, no need for excavation or drilling - they are just simple plates sat on and pinned to the ground with long rods. Still results in massive bearing and uplift capacities. But they only take ten minutes each to install.

That's sweet! The backrests do for me look just that tad tall, or needing a heavy seam 3/4 of the way up to break scale.

Mate get excited to see each of your storage solutions, I reckon you could do a book on how to build in optimum storage.

Seriously you have mastered these renditions of historic setting mate! Well actually years ago you achieved that! BIG FAN!

You're doing some pretty funky fun stuff mate!

Reduce the size of the sheet! If you open one of the default scrapbook pages you will notice they are 12" x 8.5" about A4 landscape!

Here is a little Granny Flat I designed for the Perth market. The client has now completed and opened their display home.

For this client I fortunately didn't need to go to any extreme details (or dimensions even), just provide them with a vision so to speak. I seriously love working to that level and no more!

BTW for those who might question, a granny flat is an ancillary dwelling you put in your backyard for your extended family or to lease out. This one is around 90m2 (tight)!!

The original layout sketch (the actual build is flipped).

Sketch exterior

The finished Display Home

More Photos added

@ntxdave said:

While in general, your model looks far superior, I think what they were doing from a marketing viewpoint was adding the color. Having worked with some home builders in the past, they like the color. Especially if they are posting pictures in their sales office or marketing materials.

Even given that, why the heck the removed some of your landscaping details is beyond my understanding. I can certainly understand your dismay.

As for your work - WELL DONE.........

Yeah I understand too mate, the funny thing is I've picked up other clients who have seen those works and loved the fact the home is the feature of the image. It also meant that achieving consistency across future presentations was more likely!

@baz said:

Depressing Richard, happens to me a bit too. Just had a website destroyed by the company's accountant!

He didnt pay the hosting bill?

@daniel said:

Are those marketing "gurus" college freshman? Their so-called improved rendering makes it appear lifeless. I'm surprised they didn't contact you and ask if you have a color version of your rendering.

There is one consolation: at least they only changed the setting, and not the design of the building.

We had a bit of a falling out when I told them the preliminary stuff the marketing guys were producing (not the renders at that stage) was SHIT!

@dod3r said:

Hi Richard,
I find myself in situations like this too.
Marketing managers are usually numbers people. They will have some website heat map study or something like that, and will know that colourful ( more saturated, and with higher contrast) images will get more attention and presumably sell better.
I hate it and I cant do nothing about it. I view it as an architect as a problem, that needs solving. And communicate to the marketing people, that I need my work to by represented well. I cant risk my client to connect me with bad marketing or my project selling poorly, because its shown in a bad way.
For me the best argument how to get out of this situation is to prove that your solution is better than competition.

This is exactly what is driving me crazy in this situation (actually pissing me off)! I did the design and render at a VERY low licensing fee with a royalty agreement on every one sold. Now I seriously don't see them selling any!

I guess we learn from our mistakes, I should have put a lot more conditions upon the agreement.