Walmer

Melbourne’s most acclaimed architects (Bates Smart) have designed this multi residential – mixed use building to maximize views to the river and create residencies where urban life seamlessly connects with nature.
It was important for our studio to set the right tone and composition for each shot to help compliment the design language. One of the major elements in the design is how the large terraces cascade down the northern elevation and almost merge into the contours of the river bank.
Technically it was very hard to capture certain angles due to ongoing neighboring construction, so the decision was made early on to go full 3D for the majority of the shots.
The largest challenge was file management, with some scenes ending up over 7 gig even though the building was modeled procedurally with rail-clone and all interior assets (furniture/curtains/plants) were scattered with Forest pack. We probably did go OTT by scattering debris and gravel on the roads surfaces, especially from the distance the cameras were positioned. As they say…The devil is in the detail.
A small animation is in production and will be released next year.

Wuwart

We had a pleasure to create a visual presentation of a minimalist, luxurious residential project called Wuwart. Only 3 buildings, 18 high-end apartments. The whole refers to the modernist roots and exhibition WUWA organized in 1929 in Wrocław.

Design: Q2 Studio
Localization: Nowe Żerniki, Wrocław, PL
Software: 3Ds Max / Corona Renderer / Photoshop

BIGyard

Spare time personal project based on zanderroth architekten’s project named BIGyard.
I’ve just imagined a different context and I had fun playing with 2 different moods and lighting setups. Most enjoyable part has been painting the road texture, blending several textures with custom brushes, in a single huge 60k texture with all the correspondent maps.
It’s also the first project done with Corona 3.0 and I have to say the displacement has been improved quite a bit.
Full hi-res set of images on my Behance profile:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/73258137/BIGyard-CGI