Making of ‘The House’
Rarely have I ever seen a private house residential project get so much attention and done with so much detail as ‘The House’ by Atelier York. This project marked the beginning of Alex York’s Atelier, starting as a relatively simple commission to produce exterior renders, but over the span of four years transforming into a complete 3d creation of the house using 3ds max & Mental Ray as the main tools producing more then 40 still images and the ‘Highlights Reel’ animation that you can see here. Follow Alex as he describes the process of creating this project, there is much to learn from him. Enjoy!
‘The House’ by Alex York
A companion set of images to the making-of ‘The House’ article by Alex York. You will find here the full set of still images and the video too. Unlike the latest, and now annoying, trend of jazzing everything up with animating the scene buildup, adding light streaks, paths and other motion graphics to the mix… This is one of the better Architectural Explanatory Animation I’ve seen for a long time. Nothing fancy about the camera movements and yet it’s not the boring walk-through too. This animation was intended to allow the Client to understand the house in great detail and also the relations between the various spaces – the circulation among them.
LumenRT Review for SketchUP
Being a distributor of software via Polytown has its perks. This is how I found out about E-On Software’s new real-time 3d tool named LumenRT Review for SketchUP. I’ve played with it for some time now and we actually use it the studio for real work, like Villa W in the image above.
A New Coat of Paint!
A website is forever work in progress and next month marks this blog’s second year online. I think it’s time to take it to the next level and I need your help in doing so. I’ve already started to do some heavy lifting behind the scenes and made this quick 8 questions survey, which have been taking most people 5 minutes to complete.
Church of Light by Elvin Aliyev
Tadao Ando’s Church of Light has had its share of 3d recreations. Elvin’s recent forum post is among the best recreations I’ve seen to date. His attention to the materials, camera placement and light shows great respect to the work of the master that Ando is.
3D Garden Animation like NO Other!
Take a look at the latest short animation by Marek Denko and after that please try to convince me he isn’t an Extraterrestrial hiding among us normal Homo sapiens. That is the best looking and totally realistic 3d garden I’ve ever seen to date! and showcased in a very cool way too. Way to go Marek!