Kilburn Vale - Gianni Botsford Architects

Kilburn Vale by Gianni Botsford Architects.

I loved GBA's Casa Kike when I first saw it, so this was a very exciting commission for me.

As usual I started by building a very detailed sketchup model (thanks for your help Bojana!). It's quite a simple building, but with a lot of thought in the details:

I try to do as much as I can these days in sketchup, even roughly positioning textures which then get replaced by vray materials in 3dsmax.

The external terracotta louvres were given a cg-source.com multi-texture map to randomise the colour of each louvres very slightly, this really helped in adding some realism. (Maybe I could have used the new vray multi subtexture map? haven't figured it out yet)

All the furniture was chosen by the architect, the main items were:

- Drop table, Living Divani. Designed by Junya Ishigami - Garden plate, Living Divani. Designed by Junya Ishigami - Family Chairs, Living Divani. Designed by Junya Ishigami - Loop Chair designed by Willy Guhl - Extrasoft sofa by Living Divani

The principle HDR skies were 2003 for the night time shots and 1739 for the sunlight ones.

Arkitekthus - Ekerö

AH#024 house by Thomas Sandell for Arkitekthus

My first commssion from arkitekthus.se is a house designed by one of Sweden's foremost architects and designers Thomas Sandell.

Technical info for those interested:

Building modeled in Sketchup, rendered at 6000px resolution in 3dsmax using vray, brix, forest pro.

Geeky vray stuff:

Irradiance map & light cache for the high res renders, universal method for the 1200px alternative lighting renders.

Furniture:

HDR Skies used: 0743, 1739, 1928, 2028

clay render

viewport

Stöten

A short 3d intro for Stöten Ski Resort made in collaboration with Panama Channel. Made with 3dsmax, vray, multiscatter, snow flow & after effects The actual terrain was actually imported into 3dsmax via google earth>sketchup. www.panamachannel.se www.peterguthrie.net

A short 3d intro for Stöten Ski Resort made in collaboration with Panama Channel.

Made with 3dsmax, vray, multiscatter, snow flow & after effects

The actual terrain was actually imported into 3dsmax via google earth>sketchup.

www.panamachannel.se

www.peterguthrie.net

Dalarna Business

This was a fun 1 day job I did for Norkay, the people I share an office with. It's an advert for Dalarna Business to show (with a sense of humour) how local businesses might grow in the future. Norkay came up with the concept and the idea for this image, I then designed and modeled an airport, rendered it and montaged it into a photo of the existing Mora airport. Oh, and I added some reindeer and a sleigh for good measure.

Double page spread in the local newspaper, Falu Kuriren.

Concept by Norkay, photography by Ulf Palm Fotograf, visualisation by me.

Plain Space

A little personal project inspired by Jown Pawson's recent Plain Space exhibition at the Design Museum in London. These renders take a lot of inspiration from Gilbert McCarragher's beautiful photos of the exhibition. My main interest in doing this was to capture the same quality of light as in the photos, I love the blue light from the sky in contrast to the warm concealed lighting under the benches. You can view the renders at a bigger size on Flickr

HDRi sky used in this series: 1123.

The Phoenix Flowers

The Phoenix Flowers is a new public realm intervention by 7N Architects in Glasgow, Scotland. I worked on the 3d visualisations in September last year and was very interested to see photos of the completed project by my ex-colleague and friend Dave Morris. At the time I remember being happy with my work but not completely sure how 'real' the images looked. As it turns out, the red carpet and flowers are even more intensely coloured in reality! Take a look at the full set of Dave's photos here, below are a selection for comparison. When I saw Dave's photos I felt I had to go back and render a couple of extra views, so the 2 below were done to try and match his compositions.

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For me, the interesting things to notice were the relative intensities of the highlights (how the Canon 5D dealt with them compared to vray), the colour of the lighting behind the grilles (goes towards yellow in reality despite being red) and that I was pretty lucky in getting the flower petal material looking about right.

Allandale Interiors

Following on from the last post, this is a selection of my favourite interior views of the Allandale House for wojr.org. Click images for high res.

The HDRi sky used for all of these shots was 1008.

Allandale Exteriors

Exterior renders of Allandale House by William O'Brien Jr. who is Assistant Professor of Architecture at MIT School of Architecture and Planning as well as running his own design practice. I'm planning a making-of tutorial, but first I wanted to show some high res versions of the exteriors (interiors to follow) as they really should be viewed big for best effect! The following renders are my particular favourites of the exterior set, click for a high res version.

The HDRi sky used for this series of renders was 1008.

195 Richmond Road

Slideshow of a recently completed project for Lynas Architecture in Hackney, London. Everything in this scene was 3d, so making the day/cloudy/dusk shots was simply a case of changing the HDR used to light the scene, and turn on/off lights.