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Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:43:24 GMT

Just came across the September Rendering of the Month page ...
http://www.graphisoft.com/community/gallery/

Congratulations to Francois Chatelain for a fantastic collection of photorealistic images. Beautiful work!!

Karl

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:11:34 GMT

Thanx Karl.

I was already a close contender for last month's one, and GS decided to resubmit my entries for this month's vote and voila.
Getting the new T-shirt will spare me going shopping as summer's kicking in Down Under 😉
Cheers

Francois

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Ben Odonnell — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:44:15 GMT

Karl wrote:
Just came across the September Rendering of the Month page ...
http://www.graphisoft.com/community/gallery/

Congratulations to Francois Chatelain for a fantastic collection of photorealistic images. Beautiful work!!

Karl

Couldn't agree more.. These images are just fantastic.. Francois has paid attention to some really nice detail in his images.

Great work Francois! Keep up the good work..

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:51:24 GMT

François,

Very cool renderings of some very nice buildings. It is very refreshing to see ArchiCad used to design "Modern" buildings for a modern world rather than neo-buildings designed for Disneyland.

Congratulations

Shaun

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:51:46 GMT

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:24:35 GMT

Hi guys,

thanx for the kind comments, I'm blushing all over now.
I don't know what to say, I'd like to thank my mum, my....
err sorry, I was daydreaming 😉
Seriously though, I'm lucky enough to be working for some of Sydney's finest designers and it's always a bonus when I get a job from them because I know I'll be able to produce nice images given the design is good and simple to start with. As I always say, it's a lot easier to make a good design look good, than an average one.
Cheers

Francois

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:04:22 GMT

Very Beautiful and inspiring Images. I was wondering if they were rendered in Artlantis or another rendering program.

Thanks

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Ben Odonnell — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:32:49 GMT

Ola wrote:
Very Beautiful and inspiring Images. I was wondering if they were rendered in Artlantis or another rendering program.

Thanks

He's using Electicimage to render with. Check out his homepage. He has done some really nice work. Just click on the www link at the bottom of his post to get to his homepage..

Ben

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Thomas Holm — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:22:53 GMT

Fantastic, Francois!

Some of them are perhaps even too realistic: This one (right side, third from top) for instance - you know the feeling, in a more or less unknown hotel room, being a little sick after having slept for just one hour and a half after last night's too joyful party, but already late for the important 8 a.m. meeting, getting out of the shower you find that the floor is just too slippery to walk straight on, you fall down to crawl on all four, you hurt your knee, and getting just a little more sick you...

Or is this kind of post unappropriate for the forum, Djordje?

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:06:07 GMT

I like the story, Thomas. 😉 But seriously, I think the dogs-eye view in that image adds drama (and emphasizes some very nice textures and lighting effects) to a room that might look rather plain and boring if viewed from a 'normal' human viewpoint. I like it! What do you all think?

Karl

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Link — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:13:26 GMT

Francois - nice to see you're still leading the way with your renderings! They are all incredible - I think it's high time for your US tour! This kind of work is the stuff the 'average guy' like me dreams about!

Keep up the good work and I hope all is well.

Cheers mate,
Link.

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Ben Odonnell — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:33:26 GMT

Karl wrote:
I like the story, Thomas. 😉 But seriously, I think the dogs-eye view in that image adds drama (and emphasizes some very nice textures and lighting effects) to a room that might look rather plain and boring if viewed from a 'normal' human viewpoint. I like it! What do you all think?

Karl

I think that they are really nice. His eye for detail is really good.
I have seen so many renderings were people have nailed the lighting and texturing, but the actual model, well seems to be missing something.

I mean look at the bed head he has some really nice subtle bevels happening the whole way around the bed head. This is what I mean when I say that he as an eye for detail. A small bevel on an edge adds to the over all reality of the final image.

Ben

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:53:27 GMT

Hi everyone,

the hotel room pic was commissioned, along with a couple of other views (lobby and external shot of the entry), for a Hotel competition down in Tasmania.
Timeframe about 3-4 days to produce the views, and the shot of the room was based on a photo in some design magazine.
I'll show you the other renders in a following post.
As for the bevels, whenever I have to generate a close-up view, I do add detail to my models. I have developped a serie of simple library parts, basically parametric cubes with bevels on different sides, which I apply to the relevant part of the model. Usually as a 2-3mm thick skin.
I use those same objects as window frames in my radiosity renders. Because radiosity engines don't like polygons with holes in them, I can't use straight windows from the libraries, I have to model each one seperately by manually assembling the various parts of the frame and the glass. It's good fun. And then I usually get carried away and start adding the tracks for sliding windows and so on 😉
But hey, it's all for a good cause...
Hooroo
Francois

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Thomas Holm — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:23:24 GMT

Sure! I do like this image. It triggers my fantasy! I am serious, really. It is one of the best, in this one the interior is lit in a way that looks more realistic than in the others. If you compare the different ceilings I think you see what i mean.

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:52:33 GMT

Hi Thomas,

that hotel room shot is also one of my favourite interiors view. This is due to the fact that I had more control over the final product than in the oher ones where I had to satisfy the client, his employees, the interior designers, the architect, the maketing people and finally the graphic designers for the brochure. That's a lot of input one has to deal with.
Anyway, here's a full res close-up of that same render, showing the effect of bump maps and so on. To this day I still don't know why this particular view came up that good 😉
Cheers
Francois

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Thomas Holm — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:40:42 GMT

To this day I still don't know why this particular view came up that good

Just the self-evident combination of eye-catching detail and realistic lighting!

(I wish it were that self-evident to me as well)

Thomas

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 05:18:46 GMT

Karl wrote:
I like it! What do you all think?

Karl

Having known François for a few ArchiYears now, I have seen the steady development of an artist. Every image strives to present a photo-realistic image with a view angle that helps the eye appreciate the design intent. The architects and developers must love his work because he is always under the gun with project after project. No time to appreciate your new beach front view, right?

Congratulations François, now would you please tell us the key combo for that wicked ç in your name????

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:28:39 GMT

Burginger wrote:
Karl wrote:
I like it! What do you all think?

Karl
No time to appreciate your new beach front view, right?

Congratulations François, now would you please tell us the key combo for that wicked ç in your name????

Hi Mark,
ArchiYears, I like that new measure of time 😉
I've lost my beautiful ocean view a year ago now Had to move out as the owners wanted to move back in, very sad indeed.
ç = option+c on the Mac
Hope you're not threatened by the fires around your area.
Cheers
Franoptioncois

Re: Rendering of the Month - Congratulations Francois

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:23:02 GMT

Great work, Francois! Those are some fantastic images. Makes all the renderings that I've done (which isn't many) look like cartoons.

I agree with you, Karl. I like the perspective on that particular image. I think it adds a little more drama to the rendering. Forces the viewer to see it from a different point of view. IMHO, there are too many renderings that are done from a 'canned' perspective. I know that you have to shoot for realism in presentation images but if you try some off-the-wall view points it adds a little more 'oomph' to what can be an otherwise boring showcase. Just my 2 cents.

Scott