Cardboard Model

[Robert Fuchs]

I am trying something different with some renderings. I have noticed when we do renderings for our clients at the beginning of a project they get stuck on the colors or materials I have chosen instead of looking at the design. So I have played with an idea of showing off the design without using materials or colors that would throw off a client. What do you guys think? BTW, they were rendered in Artlantis Studio.

[Richard Morrison]

MUCH better!

[Erika Epstein]

Robert,
Really nice series of shots. I've often started with a foam-core looking model for many of the same reasons you and others have discussed. I particularly like what you did showing night as well as day.

[Link]

This is a concept I promote in my templates - using the foam core model. In fact I set up all of my tool defaults so that each material is set to an element specific material that looks like foam core. As the model is built, it appears as foam core, then later when you know the materials you want to apply, you can simply switch out each material via the Materials dialog or via the Attribute Manager and the whole model updates instantly.

Cheers,
Link.

[Thomas Holm]

I also like the last image better, the first one looks too much like an adobe hut to me. I think the whiter the better, like the first image in this thread:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=102874#102874

The foam core model is of course ideal for this purpose - not distracting the client with premature material issuees.

But Link: Please detail your bulk material switch procedure a little - it seems like a brilliant tip , but I don't follow you completely, and I'm scared of material confusion - I've had too many "missing library part" dialogs in my life!

[Anonymous]

Thomas wrote:
But Link: Please detail your bulk material switch procedure a little - it seems like a brilliant tip , but I don't follow you completely, and I'm scared of material confusion - I've had too many "missing library part" dialogs in my life!

Thomas, I have done something like that, I could explain the procedure in swedish if you want.

[Rakela Raul]

BTW Raul, I like the design of your church. In my area its hard to get a building built without it being a metal building. Then you try to dress it up.

not my design, not my style...i would have done it the way you did..i was just showing another way departing from the realistic/final/as built presentation.

BTW...i missed the chance to buy MF..would have been the perfect excuse

[Rick Thompson]

I think the white one works best too. The cardboard tan seems to imply a color, so I would wonder if the client would tend to associate that with dullness, whereas the white is , to me, is clearly presenting without addressing color, just form. Course, when I went to school, we used white foam core for models, which was decades before computer modeling... so I do link back to foam core:)

You could carry it another step, and have a blank rendering, then have them close their eyes and paint a word picture.

This is actually why I present my stock plans in sepia tones. If you throw in color, people can get opinionated and miss the point.

[Thomas Holm]

Rick wrote:
You could carry it another step, and have a blank rendering, then have them close their eyes and paint a word picture.

That's what I try to make the clients do, for me, before I start sketching!

[Rick Thompson]

Thomas wrote:

Rick wrote:
You could carry it another step, and have a blank rendering, then have them close their eyes and paint a word picture.

That's what I try to make the clients do, for me, before I start sketching!

I've actually taken it yet another step... I did away with clients

[Thomas Holm]

Rick wrote:
I've actually taken it yet another step... I did away with clients

Lucky you! But I'm afraid that wouldn't work in this country. Too small a market to make a living out of stock plans, I think. Too easy to pirate - you have to get your bread from the precentage that pay.