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Renderings for a Developer

Robert Fuchs — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:20:44 GMT

What do you guys think about these renderings. Modeled in AC10 and rendered in Artlantis Studio 1.26 and Photoshoped for the sketchy look. I think they turned out pretty good for the time I was allowed. I have a total of 30 hours put in. Modeled from scratch to the final renderings. The Artlantis file ended up @ 290 MB. My G5 was dragging pretty bad but got the job done. C&C are welcome.

Robert

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Robert Fuchs — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:15:59 GMT

Here are a couple more images. I did 12 images total.

Robert

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Dwight — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:49:15 GMT

This is inspired work. Congratulations. You have really captured character and excitement. I want to go there, not flee.

Artlantis 2 has some graphic tools to get you part way into this look.

I'm glad that you tell the time it took, since so many users expect this to be instant or automatic. You would be faster next time?

Can you please divide the time for us?

Model.
Artlanticization.
Photoshopification.
Other.

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Robert Fuchs — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:02:35 GMT

Dwight wrote:
This is inspired work. Congratulations. You have really captured character and excitement. I want to go there, not flee.

Artlantis 2 has some graphic tools to get you part way into this look.

I'm glad that you tell the time it took, since so many users expect this to be instant or automatic. You would be faster next time?

Can you please divide the time for us?

Model.
Artlanticization.
Photoshopification.
Other.

Model: Took about 16 hours. I mainly used AC but did import some Sketchup models of the tent structure, Boats, Ferris Wheel and a couple other items.

Artlanticization: Took around 11 hours. Materials, set up views then adding entourage. I let all 11 views render over night. Each were 2592x1728 and took around 30-45 minutes each on low radiosity. I would say 2 to 3 hours of my time here was waiting on the computer because of the file size.

Photoshopification: Took around 3 hours. Close to 2 hours of that was to figure out what filters and settings to use to get the look I was going for. After that was figured out, modifying the other images went quickly.

Dwight, Thanks for the wonderful comments. Attached are a couple more views from the boardwalk.

Robert

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Dwight — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:06:16 GMT

It is Robert's birthday tomorrow so you all should congratulate him on a wonderful job.

Not that anyone has the time to do this, it is a fine lesson on what it takes to start getting happy, storytelling images out of the system...

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:27:04 GMT

Nice images, Robert!
I would ask if you could show us a fraction of a picture at the original resolution!

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:04:40 GMT

All right - if we talk about semi-stylized Artlantis renderings - here is some more - don't comment on design - it's for developers too!

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:06:31 GMT

And here is another one; Still - All right - as little as possible comments on design - it's for developers too!

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Robert Fuchs — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:45:07 GMT

kliment wrote:
Nice images, Robert!
I would ask if you could show us a fraction of a picture at the original resolution!

Here is a little clip from the image.

Robert

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Dwight — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:25:11 GMT

krysmark wrote:
And here is another one; Still - All right - as little as possible comments on design - it's for developers too!

The purpose of having such expansive glass is to give the dweller a sense of commanding his panorama. When the glass is opaque and diffuse like you have rendered it, the building looks like Little Orphan Annie - no pupils.

In reality, a photo from this angle would show some sky reflection, but we should also see inside the structure to appreciate its volume. You can put some clouds in the glass....

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:29:08 GMT

And, while clouds in the glass are a good low-computing-cost trick - see also Dwight's book for cityscape imagery pseudo-reflected in glass...

I note that it seems that none of the recently posted Artlantis renderings (this and other threads) have taken advantage of a wonderful new feature of Artlantis 2: the dynamic 'heliodon sky'.

In the camera inspector, for the background, choose 'heliodon sky'. Then, in the Heliodon Inspector, you can turn on dynamic clouds (covering the entire sky-dome) with sliders to control the mix that you want. You can also animate aspects of this sky in an animation - although unfortunately you cannot make the clouds move.

The degree of cloud cover can be made to affect the brightness of the sun as well.

Not only do you get clouds generated at a resolution guaranteed to match your rendering - not worrying about the pixel count of the image that you choose for a background - but since it is an entire dome, you get good reflections and can also do VR's that have a decent sky. If your building is facing the sunrise, you'll see the rising sun and colored clouds in the window reflection even as you see different cloud cover behind it.

A wonderful new addition to Artlantis!

Cheers,
Karl

PS Nice images that started this thread. My comment about clouds really belongs in another thread - will reference back to it from there.

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Dwight — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:57:36 GMT

Right you are!

No more need for lousy background photos and a wonderful way to modulate the sun strength and shadow softness.

This is one of the reasons to recommend Artlantis.

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:29:33 GMT

Excellent work Robert. Very artistic rendering results from a computer generated rendering.

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:02:11 GMT

I was wondering where you have found the Ferris Wheel, i'm really looking for something like that for my project on the diploma thesis.
I'll be very grateful for any info that ull give me...

Re: Renderings for a Developer

Mats_Knutsson — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:18:53 GMT

wonderful! inspiring! congrats!