Virtual Renders... Any Interest?

[macboy91si]

So I was going through some old files the other day and re-organizing my images and I found some 3-D renders that I had done. I figured that I'd post some here and share, if there's interest. It takes a lot of work to make them, and it would be nice to share some of them.

I have some buildings and some self-designed appliances. I can also take requests. I love doing it, but I need some motivation and purpose and I think sharing some of this would help in that.

-Tim

 

[macboy91si]

St. Mary's Medical Campus (Exterior)

Purely fictional, but I got many of the ideas for these buildings from various 19th century medical complexes that I've read about and toured. Victorian architecture is a love of mine, and pours out of most of my designs.

This is a campus shot from within building C. This is sadly another model that has not been completed but I would like to if I can find some motivation and input on it.

-Tim

 

[macboy91si]

St. Mary's Medical Campus (Interior Hall)

This is another shot of the same campus. This is one of the main corridors where all of the rooms and pathways would connect to. This campus has an eerie creep to it that I rather like.

-Tim

 

[petek]

I'm not quite sure what 3D render is.

That one of the corridor above though reminds me very much of the hallways in one of the old public schools here in town built around 1910 or so. . The arched door and kickplate and the later added piping for sprinkler systems etc..

btw this school still stands and is no longer a school but a community type centre,, They ruined it by adding a big gym on the front where the entrance stairs are, and all the lawn and trees around it are now parking..looks dreadful. Such a shame
Luckily most of the interior is intact.

 

[macboy91si]

3d Render...

These are not real images, I've created them in a 3-D drawing app from scratch. Here is a photo of them in drawing mode. They're completely made from the ground up and they're full models, I can move through them and "render" or create lifelife images from any angle.

-Tim

PS I LOVE that building, very beautiful. I think you're almost right on the money with 1910.

 

[petek]

I like that, could probably spend hours at it I'll bet

Here's a streetview of that school above as it is today from about the same spot as the postcard.. doncha love Streetview

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[petek]

Are you working from a photograph when you make them up.. I mean just looking at a photograph and recreating it as if you were painting something from a photo. not digitizing the photo into your pc

 

[macboy91si]

Creation

No, they don't exist until I create them. They start off as lines and start joining to other things. It's like painting something from thought, but a 3 dimensional "object". Like I would think of what kind of windows the building would have and assemble them one shape at a time, them create an object from that completed window to apply to the rest of the building. These photos are created from a render engine, it looks at the object I've created from a specified view and adds lighting and texture to it.

I have done things from photos and I quite enjoy it. I've been doing a mock-up of my old high school building as it was in 1925 before all of the hideous additions. It's my way to go back in the past.

I've done appliances too.

-Tim

 

[macboy91si]

Modern Maid 20" Range

This is a little 20" range I created a while back. It's my own design, not from a picture or anything. I can take it apart as it's complete, the doors, knobs, etc. are all little objects that I created separately and put together.

My profile avatar is my creation as well.

-Tim

 

[hydralique]

I'm curious . . .

What program are you using to create the images? The interior rendering is particularly nice. I have Revit but don't use it much, I once laid out a whole house in it and could walk through, etc. One maddening thing about the process was the comparative lack of manufacturer-provided Revit files (extension is .rfa), which required me to create my own objects such as a particular type of window I wanted to use.

 

[macboy91si]

Sketchup

Sketchup is a great little program for making these things easily (easier?). It's a free Google product and has a host of plugins that make it do neat things.

 

[hydralique]

I've meddled with Sketchup, though I didn't realize there was a free version. It's really impressive as to ease of use, but it doesn't translate directly into Autocad like Revit which is important for me so I didn't feel like spending the money. Maybe I should experiment with the free version!

 

[macboy91si]

Experiment.. It's a good thing

I've been dillying with SU for about 3 years now, from late version 4 when AtLast! owned it. Google has done wonders with it. I have no interest in Auto CAD, but the pro version deals with the file format as well. The versions are the same. The only real difference is that the pro version gives you the ability to export in multiple formats.

-Tim

 

[macboy91si]

Above Pic as it was in Sketchup...

As I started learning lighting, amazing things started happening and I could move away from the cartoon environment into something that looked more real.