Autumn CG Kitchen 2018

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We were commissioned with creating a kitchen space with an autumnal theme for one of our clients but didn’t want to fall into the trap of using too many obvious autumn references. Our designers have done a fantastic job of keeping this set warm and cozy with a minimal sprinkling of the archetypal autumn items. The kitchen remains light and spacious, even with the use of dark tiles, units and black crittall doors.
Using Marvelous Designer allowed us to create compelling, realistic looking soft fabrics and the room was styled using complimenting traditional furnishings, in line with current trends. We used Corona renderer to produce the final CG images with minimal retouching so this project is around 99.9% CGI.

Tesseract and nature

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Firstly when i observe around of my city and country many times I think about the damage to nature along time of humanity, and the duality of the artificial versus natural from that the idea arose, and i wanted to insert the concept of the time with the geometry of the tesseract (Fourth dimension), and the damage like destroyed trees inmediatlty around of cube to generate contrast with the others normal trees.
This project take me around of six months of this year, but only i could work on my free time and also because i learned some things. The materiales like concrete, glass, steel, stainless steel, wood and all vegetation were the principal elements of all images. The level of detail was thought from the beginning for the two close ups. I used 3ds max, vray 3.6 and after effects for exr format. Time of rendering was around of 14 and 22 hours for each image with procesor intel 5820k.

You can see the view 360° with the next link

https://kuula.co/post/7Pr61

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The Clifton Vault

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Project Summary

Clifton Vault is a state-of-the-art automated parking solution with a full concierge service located along the Atlantic Seaboard in Cape Town, South Africa. Clifton is at the heart of luxury real estate and living. The concierge service fits perfectly into an environment where finding a safe parking spot is often impossible, and it is accessible all with the push of a button. Clifton Vault’s coffee shop and a boutique hotel proposed to perch on top of the car park, showcasing panoramic views across the Atlantic, are anticipated to become popular hubs of Clifton.

ThinkLab’s full brand design and visualization solution included name generation, logo design, brand identity, print and digital brochure design, CGI’s and an animated sales video packaged to illustrate Land Equity’s concept and design to prospective buyers.

What made the project so interesting is that it is currently the only parking solution of its kind in Southern Africa, making it a complete marvel nestled within one of Cape Town’s most beautiful coastal locations. This was a full collaboration with the world’s most advanced and innovative parking system suppliers and will be fully functional from the touch of a button.

Challenges

We had a fair number of challenges to overcome like any other architectural visualization project. One of the biggest hurdles we faced was integrating the real-life footage with our animated footage because there was were so many moving elements in each scene. We adapted by carefully curating our animation movements to flow naturally alongside the contextual visuals.

We had to accommodate for design and architectural processes as well throughout our project which made it particularly difficult to produce good quality content in the time frame we were given. We adapted by pre-empting most of those changes and making our adjustments accordingly ahead of time.

Producing visuals to the highest quality standard required detailed modelling of the parking systems we had no prior knowledge of. We were able to address this challenge by doing thorough research and educating ourselves as a studio on how such systems work.

Lesson Learned

This was one of our first attempts to fully implement Corona Renderer to our workflow. We learnt a lot about the potential it has, and how it is busy shaping our industry for the better. We realize that Corona is perfect for animation as our render times were much better in relation to Vray and we had zero flickering in our final passes of this project which created a crispness to all our visuals.

In all, this project resulted in our team gaining vital new knowledge and we completed a project that was well executed and received very well by our client. Clifton Vault was a huge success for the ThinkLab team and raised the quality standards for our growing company.

Thank you

The Hightone

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The Visualization was to Emphasis the use of materials and textures in the Exterior of The High-Tone, The understanding of different shades of concrete was the main objective during the creation process of the Visualization, the use of 3ds max and Vray helped me a lot in this process.and thanks to the next level GPU rendering via Vray Next, it is splendid to work with, i suggest the use of 3ds max and vray next to any type of Visualization.