Out with the old and in with the new! In Converted, I’m asking you to take an in-depth look at existing architecture near you or one you love worldwide and introduce something new.
As many others I had started a personal project to develop my skills, but as other things came up, I quickly forgot about it. Earlier this year (2017) I decided to finish it.
The apartment is part of a building dating back to 1687. It is located in the center of Copenhagen, Denmark.
I noticed the building was being renovated a couple of years back and later found drawings from the company who were in charge of putting these renovated apartments up for sale.
Based on those drawings I decided to give it a go myself.
As a challenge to get better at using iToo’s Railclone, I decided to create all floors, panels and windows with this tool.
I had both great and not so great times doing this project, but it was very fulfilling to create custom kitchens, panels, bathrooms, decorate every room and see the whole apartment completed.
Visualisation of beautiful rooftop penthouse done for Tempo Company based in Banja Luka, Bosnia. I got basic ideas and materials that needed to be implemented and got freedom to do the interior design. The result speak for itself
Santiago studied industrial design at university because he was looking for something related to design. The design degree concept was completely new in Ecuador at the time, and he was drawn to it. He knew that the creativity he had felt since childhood couldn’t be applied as well in any other field as it would be in the design field.
After a bad experience with an employer, he decided to go on his own and turn his attention to architectural visualization, and once he saw Alex Roman’s short film The Third & The Seventh there was no turning back.
The Journey to Improvement
Santiago may not call himself a perfectionist, but after opening his own office, he set his standards very high. When comparing his work to images that were being created around the world, he knew when his work wasn’t good enough. That’s when he decided to attend a Master Class at State of Art Academy in Italy.
He was present at the first International SOA Master Class, and calls the experience “absolutely great.” It was there that he learned that approach and philosophy are the keys, and that everything else is just a tool.
Winning the Image of the Week was the ‘Beginning of Everything’
After winning Image of the Week in July 2012 with “Vanilla Room”, Santiago says everyone began to love his work, and his website exploded. The exposure he had on the forum was a complete turning point for him, and the momentum still hasn’t stopped.
Today, his studio is as busy as ever, and Santiago is teaching even more than he is creating projects. He has created a post-production training and a Corona Renderer training, both of which are available online, and he shares his philosophy on the amount of work that he believes students should be doing in each.
All about the Making of METEORA
Santiago has been showcased on the blog three times, with the most popular images being METEORA. In our conversation, we dig deep into the process of making of these images, how Santiago did what he did, and what he learned along the way.
Discover all this and more, on this session of The SpectRoom with Santiago Sanchez.
Coming fall 2017, polyget will offer a great variety of scenes, assets and beautiful animated and loopable plants, that will give your animations that last push towards realism.
Static plants is a huge giveaway, but with our easy-to-use 3D models and presets, you will be able to make your animations even more lifelike.
Our 3D models are created for 3ds Max and Corona Render, but, if requested, we will make them available for other software and render engines.
Beautiful Computer Generated Images is a collection of Seven projects, collection of seven Manifests, where every piece is an intersection of Technology and Art. It depicts imaginary places, imaginary objects where every element is arranged to create beautiful Composition and where photorealistic simulations are enriched and elevated by Custom color mapping to craft a piece formed by true Art.
Manifests show what I consider truly beautiful, what I am passionate about and what I love. Passion in Computer Generated Image, passion in Composition, beauty in Simplicity, Light, custom Colors, passion in bending image within a Purpose, in adjusting piece with an Abstract elements, all elevated by Custom Color Mapping to form something Unseen, something New and very Artistic.
Manifests have been developed for 1 year, working solely on the manifests, between 2016 and 2017 and are periodically released every three weeks. After all seven have been released, there is going to be a book stitching all the pieces together.
Everything is custom made – from scratch – models, materials.
I welcome to watch the seventh one.
Computer Generated Art is set of two traditional Still Life Paintings created by new Technological Approaches. It depicts passion and beauty in Art and Painting. Love in Novel Technology Computer Algorithms, Research and Development enhancing possibilities of Digital Art.
Project has been done in Stylit accompanied by Corona renderer. Stylit is developed by Czech researchers – http://stylit.org/. Stylit is able to repaint painted material sphere onto any geometry by repeating its look and mostly stylization. I collaborated directly with the researchers to make this project happen. The project was finished on 19.7.2017 – the date of the video – and was put on hold because of license. Now can be published as I am licensed to use the Stylit technogloy being patent-pending by Adobe.
Fruit still life was done by sampling and creating huge number of material spheres from real high resolution still life paintings and then projected onto geometry by Stylit. Shadows were added by Corona pass.
Flower still life was done by sampling more stylized still life paintings and then projected onto geometry.
This process is something similar to creating material sphere in Corona but such material sphere is defined only by its overall appearance.
Corona was used to create guide passes – the Stylit´s input is not geomtery itself but rather passes – beauty, normal, refelction and so on.
