Hoxton Housing

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Getting more into the technical challenges of this project.
The most challenging part was certainly the modelling of the brick pattern. We decided to model every single brick instance to achieve the more realistic result. Unfortunately this wasn’t possible to achieve by simply using displacement maps.
We also started this project using Vray GPU. We really wanted to test the limitations of GPU rendering.
What we found out is that despite being really fast for small scenes, as soon as we started to model some context, we ran quickly out of VRam.
So we had to go back to CPU rendering to finish the project.
Another challenge was to visualise the building from the surrounding streets which were quite narrow and required a wider field of view than we would have liked, however this became an opportunity to make some of the images even more dramatic.

I hope you enjoy the project.
To see more, please visit Texel.digital

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I finally found some time to keep developing this project I started a while ago. I’m a evaluator of minimalist architecture, and I really appreciate the use of materials and light in this project, so I wanted to challenge myself and recreate it. I had the chance to play around for the first time with Corona Volume to recreate the light beam in the water.

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I finally found some time to keep developing this project I started a while ago. I’m a evaluator of minimalist architecture, and I really appreciate the use of materials and light in this project, so I wanted to challenge myself and recreate it. I had the chance to play around for the first time with Corona Volume to recreate the light beam in the water.

House in Monsaraz | Aires Mateus

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For our new archviz work, we selected the amazing House in Monsaraz designed by Portuguese architect Aires Mateus and inspired by the talented architectural photographer João Guimarães.
The most important target of our production is to grab and understand the contrasted relationship between this architectural impacting element and the surrounding landscape .
We used 3DS Max + ForestPack + Vray + Photoshop.

Full Project here:

Our first collection of 2D cutout people is available here:
https://gumroad.com/darkbandstudio#fUGiw

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