I’m always trying new techniques in an attempt to push my abilities and renderings to the next level. This image was inspired by a book I received about Japanese dwellings. In the book there is a photograph of a living space looking out into a deeply forested environment which I found evocative.

My model seemed claustrophobic upon review so I decided to open up the view to the most dramatic expanse I could imagine and change it to an expansive shot of a high mountain lake.

I am also working on incorporating models of real-world items captured by photogrammetry and inserting them into my scenes in order to add that extra element of realism that pulls in the viewer’s interest.

I have found that using the native color settings in Lumion brings a vibrance to the final image that while beautiful, is a bit saturated for most scenes. Luckily the ability to manage this is handled well within Lumion with the use of some of the built-in effects.

This image represents an ideal environment for me personally and I hope to provide through my work the kind of life that could provide a view like this for my daughter and wife to gaze upon like the fearless young lady in the image.

This is a concept render for a proposed project for special needs residents in Texas.
The goal is to have a community where developmentally challenged adults can live with as much independence as possible on a property that combines individual living quarters, a common house and a coffee shop for the residents to have nearby employment.

The idea behind the design is to reference the traditional Mexican Hacienda design, which often took the form of a U-Shaped building with an enclosed courtyard and garden.

Since this project will be funded by donations, these images were produced to present to potential donors so that the project could go from dream to reality.

I have been focusing on scene composition and lighting, and the effects of bloom, reflection and depth-of-field, as well as terrain creation. The house model was taken off sketchup. I deleted the surrounding terrain in the model and changed all of the textures.